The Dallas-Fort Worth housing market will post 60,000 foreclosure filings in 2010, according to estimates by Foreclosure Listing Service.

The suburban Dallas-based company said a record 53,107 residential foreclosure postings have been filed in the first 10 months of 2010, based on its data collection and filing deadlines for October on the four-county area, and are up 4% compared to the same period of 2009.

“Four percent may not sound like a lot, but postings have been on the high-side for some time now. D-FW home postings have climbed 54% over the past three years and surged 379% from 10 years ago,” George Roddy Sr., president of Foreclosure Listing Service, said in a press statement.

“Even though (year-over-year) posting activity has declined in six of the past 10 months, you must remember that monthly adjustments are normal; and, the higher the foreclosure numbers, the percentage adjustment up or down tends to be larger too,” Roddy added. “That is why the bigger picture provides a much more accurate account of the status of the overall market.”

Unless the leading economic indicators improve dramatically, Roddy said he expects home postings to stay on the high-end, with some months increasing even higher than previous levels.

Denton County in the north had the smallest volume of postings year-to-date, 6,197 notices filed, but it had the highest percentage gain in posting activity over the last year, a 10% increase in foreclosure filings.

In Dallas, Tarrant and Collin counties, year-to-date posting activity increased from 3% to 5%. Dallas County has the highest volume of postings, 22,596 so far this year. Tarrant County has the second highest volume at 17,232 in the first 10 months of the year, while Collin County filings are up 5% to 7,082.

The 5,026 filings for the month of October must be in place 21 days before the foreclosure auction, according to Texas law. For next month’s auctions, postings are down year-over-year, but Roddy attributed that to normal ebb and flow of filings.

“For the past 25 consecutive months, D-FW residential posting activity has surpassed 4,000 postings each month; and, in 14 of those months, postings toppled the 5,000 mark,” Roddy said. “Postings pushed even higher, with more than 6,000 homes posted for two of the auctions and a new monthly record high was set in April of this year with 6,168 notices filed.”

Write to Austin Kilgore.

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