Everybody is talking about foreclosures: the media, the investors and each person thinking about buying or selling property in the near future. On top of that, California is consistently posting one of the highest state and metro foreclosure rates in the nation. But what does the scene in Contra Costa County look like?

Below are a series of charts depicting the breakdown of Notice of Defaults (NOD), Notice of Trustee Sales (NOT) and Real Estate Owned (REO) single family homes for each city in Contra Costa County. These numbers, by themselves, don’t mean much. However, if we track them week-over-week or month-over-month, we should be able to find trends that can be leveraged to our benefit…