In the years after COVID-19 arrived, foreclosures in New Hampshire dropped.

That was intentional: The federal government imposed a moratorium preventing lenders from carrying out foreclosures on federally backed mortgages, and offered forbearances to allow homeowners to pause their existing payments.

Those programs ended last year. And now, the rate of foreclosures across the country is ticking up.

In New Hampshire, the rate of foreclosure filings on properties has risen 149.72 percent from mid-year 2021 to mid-year 2023, according to a July 13 report from ATTOM, a property data firm that analyzes filings across the country. Most of that increase has happened in the last year.

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