Baltimore Foreclosures Surge Again as Legal Logjam Breaks

Foreclosures are surging again in Baltimore, which became a symbol of the U.S. housing crash when the city’s desolate blocks of abandoned row homes served as a backdrop for the HBO TV series “The Wire.”

Maryland’s biggest city saw foreclosures almost triple in July from a year earlier to 2,073, the biggest gain among the 20 largest U.S. metropolitan areas, according to data released today by RealtyTrac. Baltimore was one of five cities including Miami and New York that showed more properties getting default, auction and repossession notices, bucking a 32 percent nationwide decline to 130,888.