Rhode Island Foreclosure Rankings: May 2026

If you tune into national real estate headlines, it’s easy to get a little anxious. Across the United States, foreclosure filings have been experiencing a gradual, year-over-year upward march. Driven by persistent affordability constraints, elevated mortgage rates, and rising homeownership costs, pockets of distress are appearing across the country. But as we always say at the Real Estate Institute of Rhode Island, real estate is hyper-local. When you zoom in on the Ocean State, the picture looks radically different—and remarkably reassuring.According to the latest U.S. Foreclosure Market Reports from ATTOM, a leading national provider of property data, Rhode Island consistently boasts one of the lowest foreclosure rates in the entire country.Let's break down what the data shows and why our local market is demonstrating such incredible resilience compared to the rest of the U.S.