. >> reporter: foreclosure activity fell 15% from october to november. the steepest drop since 2010 when the robo signing scandal brought most foreclosures to a halt temporary. newly started foreclosures fell to the lowest level since 2005. while the nation-wide averages are positive, some states like maryland are just now ramping up the cleaning up, due to big legal and judicial delays in the foreclosure process. >> the story goes back really to 2010 and the summer of 2010. maryland adopted a new foreclosure law, which required medication. >> reporter: attorney jeffrey fisher is in the middle of maryla maryland's mess. >> they have finally sort of figured out through whatever different pay up they went through, they finally figured out how to move forward in maryland. so what you're seeing now is an effort to chop into that backlog. >> reporter: new foreclosures in maryland are up 74% from a year ago and the picture isn't much better in the northeast where judges slowed the process but are plowing through past cases. >> while the forclose sure problem b