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Foreclosure home prices fall on LI

Quick ReadFigures for the first quarter indicate that the full force of the real estate crisis that hit most other states, where discounts are now leveling off, is hitting Long Island hard now, one real estate agent says.

The wave of discount pricing on home that

Photo credit: AP | The wave of discount pricing on home that has hit in other states has finally washed over foreclosure pricing in Long Island. (2008)

Sale prices on foreclosures and homes with delinquent borrowers were on average slashed more on Long Island than the rest of the state and nation, RealtyTrac said in a new report made public Wednesday.

The figures, which covered this year's first quarter, put the average price of such sales in Nassau at $318,805, or 34.5 percent off the average price of regular homes sales, while Suffolk's...

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