According to real estate data firm RealtyTrac, homes facing foreclosures in the Kansas and Missouri areas has declined from July 2012 to July 2013, marking a continual decline and bringing an optimistic mood to the local real estate market. The Mission Hills local movers have found that foreclosure activity for July 2013 was 64 percent lower than numbers in March 2010, when the housing market was hitting rock bottom following the financial crisis.

In Missouri, problem properties decreased almost 40 percent from July 2012-July 2013. That works out to about one in every 1,405 homes listed as a home in foreclosure proceedings. Nationally, foreclosure rates are improving in most parts of the country, but nine out of ten of the highest foreclosure rates are located in Florida, with the highest number of cases in Miami.