For the first time since the country’s real estate collapse began about six years ago, Brevard County led the nation for foreclosure filings, according to a November report by the research firm RealtyTrac Inc.More than any other county in the state, Brevard has been pummeled economically, with an estimated 7,000 to 10,000 layoffs related to the end of NASA’s 30-year-old space shuttle program.
The number of jobs lost there in recent years — — exceeds even the workforce at Walt Disney World in Orlando.”The space center obviously hurt us a lot,” said Tim Harber, president of Space Coast Realtors, a trade association for real estate brokers and agents. “Consumer confidence in this area is probably lower than normal because of the shuttle program.”
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