The number of homes in foreclosure across Washington is down by nearly 40% compared with a year ago.
In Pierce County, 265 homes were in some part of the foreclosure process last month — that's down 35.7% from 412 homes a year ago, according to information compiled by Attom Data Solutions, a real estate data firm.
Thurston County saw an even larger drop, with nearly 42% fewer homes in foreclosure in February.
There, 65 homes were going through foreclosure last month, compared with 112 a year ago.
Nationwide, the company said in a news release, foreclosures dropped to the lowest since November 2005.
Other areas of the country posted increases. Foreclosures in the Houston area are up 97.4% compared with last year, to 989 homes.
And nearly 25% more homes in the San Francisco-Oakland area are being foreclosed on for that same time period, 773 homes.