Efforts to fight foreclosure finally starting to pay off - Real estate

The foreclosure crisis in the state and the nation finally appears to be ebbing. In Massachusetts, foreclosure filings in the first nine months of the year plunged 60 percent from the same period in 2009, when the crisis peaked here, according to Warren Group, a Boston-based real estate research firm. Nationally, lenders are expected to start 1.1 million fewer foreclosures in 2012 than they did...