With Halloween just days away, zombie foreclosures – homes abandoned by their owners but not yet seized by lenders – now account for 5.6% of all distressed properties in the Sarasota-Manatee region, according to a new report by real estate researcher Attom Data Solutions . Sarasota-Manatee ranked 37th among the 149 major U.S. metro areas measured for the share of zombie foreclosures, an improvement from 25th place a year ago.
