Foreclosures in the Inland Empire dropped in February, according to data released Tuesday.
The rate of foreclosures among outstanding mortgage loans in the two-county region during the second month of the year was 0.67 percent, a drop of 0.21 percentage points year-over-year, Irvine-based CoreLogic reported.
That was well below the national foreclosure rate, which was 1.13 percent in February.
Mortgage delinquency in Riverside and San Bernardino counties also decreased in February: 2.45 percent of all mortgage loans were delinquent by 90 or more days during that month, down from 3.01 percent during February 2015, a drop of 0.56 percentage points, according to CoreLogic.