Yakima County Foreclosed Homes Up For Sale

Homes owned by banks or in some stage of foreclosure make up more than 15-percent of Yakima County home sales. It’s for the first three months of the year. That figure is up slightly from the same time last year locally. Realty Track reports the statewide average is 16 percent while nationally it’s more than 27-percent. The average sale price of local foreclosure homes during the first quarter was about $144,000. That’s about 7-percent less than other properties. The figure was 21-percent during the first three months of 2010.