Harrisburg Mayor Linda Thompson has paid her late 2010 school district real estate taxes and brought her mortgage payments up to date on a property she owns at 2320 N. Fifth Street.



Metro Bank last week filed a nearly $52,000 mortgage foreclosure on the property because the mayor owed the bank about $900 in late mortgage payments.



The bank withdrew its foreclosure filing Wednesday, according to Dauphin County court papers.

Thompson also owed $1,686 in real estate taxes on the property, which have been paid.

Robert Philbin, Thompson’s spokesman, said the mayor paid her taxes and mortgage payments on Dec. 9.

The property is the mayor’s childhood home and it served as the headquarters for Loveship Inc., a mortgage counseling nonprofit Thompson ran until she was elected mayor in 2009.

Thompson said she owed the bank two months of mortgage payments and deemed the late payments as an "oversight."

She also said she was on a real estate tax payment plan in explaining why her taxes were late. However, property tax records showed Thompson had not made a payment on her real estate taxes since May.