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Annie Baxter
St. Paul, Minn.

Minn. pre-foreclosure notices climb in first half of 2010

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Pre-foreclosure notices climbed in Minnesota over the first six months of the year.

Under state law, lenders must provide homeowners early warning about delinquent mortgage payments -- a pre-foreclosure notice. The lenders must also refer those homeowners to approved foreclosure prevention counseling agencies.

Data collected by the Minnesota Home Ownership Center's affiliates show a 17 percent increase in pre-foreclosure notices between the first half of 2009 and the first half of this year.

The numbers are not perfect predictors of foreclosures to come.

Prentiss Cox, a housing expert at the University of Minnesota, said the pre-foreclosure notice numbers do not surprise him. He said they suggest the market has plateaued at a high level.

"It just tells us we have a continued difficult problem," Cox said. "It doesn't suggest that we're about to skyrocket up in foreclosures and see another doubling, as we saw from 05-06, 06-07, 07-08, when foreclosures were rising at an astronomic level."

However, Cox does not anticipate foreclosure levels climbing beyond their 2008 peak.