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13 markets where you're most likely to see vacant, 'zombie' homes

Sep 8, 2016, 15:30 IST

A boarded up vacant home is seen with General Motors World Headquarters (L) and the Detroit skyline on June 10, 2014.Rebecca Cook/Reuters

The housing market, despite new problems cropping up, has pulled itself out of the depths of its crisis from 2007 to 2009.

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Foreclosure rates have fallen back to their pre-crisis averages, and vacancy rates have declined as well.

This, however, is a bird's eye view of the whole situation. Housing is a local issue, and different cities have weathered the storm of the crisis differently.

One of the indelible marks of the crisis was the empty, foreclosed homes.

While foreclosures take a long time and can leave people living in a foreclosed home, the boarded-up, foreclosed home was an unforgettable sign of the crisis.

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ATTOM Data Solutions, formerly known as RealtyTrac, calls these "zombie" homes. "Zombie" homes have declined nationwide since the peak of the crisis, according to ATTOM, but in some markets they are more prevalent than in others.

We've taken ATTOM's data and compiled a list of the 13 large housing markets in which "zombie" homes make up at least 7% of all foreclosed homes.

Check out the markets below.

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