Consumers are increasingly wary of buying foreclosures as local real estate agents and homebuyers continue to lurch through an unstable housing market.

The percentage of adults at least somewhat likely to consider buying a foreclosed property was 43 percent last month, down from 55 percent in May, according to a report released Tuesday.

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