The foreclosure inventory was down nearly one-third in September when compared to a year earlier although the pace of completed foreclosures remained relatively steady. According to CoreLogic' September National Foreclosure Report, the inventory, which represents homes in the process of foreclosure, included approximately 340,000, or 0.9 percent, of all homes with a mortgage, compared with 493,000 homes, or 1.3 percent, in September 2015, a decline of 31.1 percent.