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QUESTION: Foreclosures in my county

Submitted by Anonymooose on Tue, 05/14/2013 - 8:58am
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I'm looking for foreclosure data for my county, which is Bryan County, Georgia, USA. Most of what I find is either for the entire state, or the largest nearby town (Savannah) which doesn't help me as I'm trying to focus on where I live.

Nice to have, but not necessary: There are two halves on Bryan County. One side contains Pembroke, the other Richmond Hill. They are actually not connected at all, the result of a military base established years ago. There is a huge discrepency in income between the two sides, so it would be nice if I could differentiate between the two. Being able to map out where the foreclosures have been would be swell, too.

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Answer posted by: ageraci

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provides local-level (including county) data files on foreclosures at this link: http://www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/nsp_foreclosure_data.html

You may also want to look at some of the foreclosure data resources (many with mapping options) listed at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's website: http://www.frbatlanta.org/commdev/foreclosure-related_data_sources.cfm

Answer posted by: jbeek

Specifically for Bryan County, GA: the Bryan County Court Docket search allows you to generate a list of all foreclosure proceedings. Go to http://74.93.54.101/publiccmsearch/, accept the terms, then select "custom search" - from the drop downs select Search By: "court division" - Operator: "equal to" - Value: "FORECLOSURE" - then click "add" and then "find"

As of 5/15/2013 this gets 219 hits.

Not for foreclosures per se, but the Assessor's data is searchable by map at this link: http://qpublic7.qpublic.net/qpmap4/map.php?county=ga_bryan&layers=parcels+roads+lakes, which you can get to from this site: http://qpublic.net/bryan/search.html. The latter has other search functions you may find useful as well.

(Research tips provided by a RR colleague with more expertise than me - JWB)