U.S. foreclosure filings fell last month as delinquent homeowners got a holiday break, RealtyTrac reported.

A total of 224,394 properties received notices of default, auction or repossession, down 14 percent from a year earlier, the Irvine, California-based data seller said Thursday in a report. One in 579 U.S. households got a filing, compared with one in 563 in October, a decline partly the result of a holiday eviction moratorium by mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, said RealtyTrac Chief Executive Officer James J. Saccacio.

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