News release: “RealtyTrac®, the leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties, released its U.S. Foreclosure Market Report for April 2011, which shows foreclosure filings default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions were reported on 219,258 U.S. properties in April, a 9 percent decrease from March and a 34 percent decrease from April 2010. The report also shows one in every 593 U.S. housing units received a foreclosure filing during April 2011. Foreclosure activity decreased on an annual basis for the seventh straight month in April, bringing foreclosure activity to a 40-month low, said James J. Saccacio, chief executive officer of RealtyTrac. This slowdown continues to be largely the result of massive delays in processing foreclosures rather than the result of a housing recovery that is lifting people out of foreclosure.”