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Report: Foreclosure filings down on Long Island

It was better news than usual for Long Island when RealtyTrac released its November report on foreclosure activity.

Foreclosure-related filings, covering newly-started foreclosure cases, notices for sale and lender repossessions, not only went down by 24 percent, but Nassau ranked fifth in the state and Suffolk sixth in rate of foreclosure filings.

For some time, Nassau and Suffolk usually are in the top five, if not the top three counties.

In November, one out of every 878 Nassau households got a foreclosure-related filing and in Suffolk, it was one out of every 960, said RealtyTrac, a California-based online market for foreclosures.

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