In very good news for the local housing market, foreclosures are declining in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County.  The graph above shows the number of Trustee Deeds recorded at the courthouse per year for 2008-2010 and the number recorded in the first ten months of 2011.

It is clear that 2011 has marked a sharp turning point in the foreclosure rate in our local area.  While we are not yet back to historically normal rates (70-100 per year), we have turned the corner from the peak of 270 in 2010.