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July saw a drop in foreclosure activity in the Bay State, The Warren Group reported Monday. The group released its July 2012 Foreclosure Data for the state, showing that a total of 1,198 foreclosures were initiated in July the lowest monthly level recorded so far in 2012.

Sales of single-family homes in the Bay State continued their steady rise in July, The Warren Group reported Tuesday. A total of 4,979 single-family homes sold statewide in July, up from almost 27 percent year-over-year. This July was the best for sales volume since 2005, when sales reached 6,672.

Foreclosure petitions fell by nearly 30 percent last month in Massachusetts, reaching their lowest level this year as jobs crawl back to life and the economy at large continues to mend. The Warren Group, publisher of Banker & Tradesman, recorded some 1,254 petitions in June, a decline by as much as 29.5 percent from May.

A release from The Warren Group on Friday showed that homes sales in Connecticut rose in May, marking the fifth straight month that sales increased year-over-year. According to the group, home sales in the state jumped up almost 15 percent in May, rising to the highest level of transactions since August 2011.

The Warren Group reported Thursday that foreclosure activity in Massachusetts rose in the month of May as banks resume foreclosure processes. The number of foreclosure petitions in the state more than doubled year-over-year, rising from 699 in May 2011 to 1,724 in May 2012.

According to the data, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island have all seen strong mortgage activity so far in 2012, with Massachusetts showing the strongest numbers. Activity in the state is up more than 28 percent, rising to 99,097 in the first four months of the year-an increase from 76,930 during the same period in 2011. Purchase mortgages increased almost 13 percent year-over-year to 13,376, while non-purchase (refinance) mortgages slid up 32 percent to 85,721.

According to the Warren Group, a Boston-based real estate data firm, foreclosure activity in Massachusetts dropped year-over-year in May, which marked the fewest number of deeds recorded in any month so far this year. Foreclosure deeds, which represent completed foreclosures, decreased almost 65 percent from a year earlier. Foreclosure petitions, which mark the first step in the foreclosure process, dropped almost 67 percent.

For the month of April, Massachusetts foreclosure activity remained at levels dramatically below those recorded last year, according to data released this week by the Warren Group in Boston. However foreclosure petitions, which mark the first step in the foreclosure process in the Bay State, posted their highest number so far this year.

Foreclosure activity is slowing in Massachusetts, according to the latest report by the Warren Group in Boston. Lenders filed 1,048 petitions to foreclose in the Bay State during March, a 60 percent decrease from March 2010. Foreclosure deeds also dropped, declining 60 percent from a year earlier. Likewise, auction announcements plummeted 62 percent.

Massachusetts' foreclosure petitions, the first step in the foreclosure process in the state, declined 67 percent in February when compared to a year earlier, according to the Warren Group, a Boston-based provider of real estate data. Completed foreclosures also fell sharply, dropping 44 percent on a year-over-year basis. The Warren Group called the numbers a ""remarkable turnaround,"" demonstrating a new ""go-slow attitude"" among lenders.