'Shadow inventory' keeps shrinking

Homes classified as "shadow inventory" fell to 2.3 million units in October, down 12.3 percent from a year ago but still representing a seven-month supply of homes, according to a monthly report from real estate data firm CoreLogic.

Homes with seriously delinquent loans attached to them made up 1.04 million of October's shadow inventory. The balance included 903,000 homes in some stage of the foreclosure process and 354,000 bank-owned properties.

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