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Kansas community leads nation on abandoned homes list

Screen Shot 2014-07-14 at 7.17.40 AMST. LOUIS (AP) — A Kansas community is at the top of the a list of abandoned properties.

Wichita has the most abandoned foreclosed properties in the United States. The ReatlyTrac report indicated Wichita had the highest rate at 49 percent, with 146 abandoned homes in foreclosure.

The Kansas City metropolitan area qualified for fourth place on the list with 305 vacated foreclosures, or 36 percent of its foreclosed properties.

Portland, Oregon, was second on the list.

St. Louis is right behind at fifth place, with 847 of 2,500 foreclosed properties being vacant, or 34 percent.

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