RealtyTrac has released its Q1 and March 2015 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows foreclosure filings—default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions—were reported on 313,487 U.S. properties in the first quarter of 2015, down seven percent from the previous quarter and down eight percent from the first quarter of 2014 to the lowest quarterly total since the first quarter of 2007. There were a total of 122,060 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings in March, a 20 percent jump from a 104-month low February and up 4 percent from a year ago—the first month with a year-over-year increase in overall foreclosure activity since September 2010.

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