Texas homes average 306 days in foreclosure

​​​​COLLEGE STATION – The average number of days Texas homes spent in foreclosure in the third quarter was 306, well below the national average of 630 days, according to new RealtyTrac data. ​​

​​​Texas’ average was up 21 percent from the second quarter and 36 percent from the same period last​ year.

The state had 6,829 foreclosures in the third quarter, up 11 percent from the previous quarter but up 179 percent from a year ago. Nationally, foreclosures were up 66 percent year over year.​

Houston had 1,486 foreclosures in the third quarter and Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington had 2,609. Meanwhile, Amarillo had 90, Corpus Christi 96, El Paso 198, Laredo 27, Tyler 51, Lubbock 77, Beaumont-Port Arthur 167, McAllen-Edinburg-Mission 135, Brownsville-Harlingen 60, Longview 43, Austin-Round Rock 354, Killeen-Temple 240, San Antonio-New Braunfels 773 and College Station-Bryan 9.​