(AP) -- LOS ANGELES (AP) - The worst summer for home sales in decades also put a chill on foreclosure sales, even though average discounts on the distressed properties got bigger compared with other types of homes.
RealtyTrac says foreclosure sales plunged 25 percent in the July-September quarter versus the April-June period. They tumbled 31 percent from the third quarter of last year.
The foreclosure listing firm says sales of non-foreclosed properties fell 29 percent from the previous quarter and nearly 31 percent from the third quarter of last year.
The decline in sales of bank-owned properties and other homes in some stage of foreclosure is in line with an overall housing market slowdown. That slowdown began after federal homebuyer tax credits expired in April.
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