Search for Countrywide foreclosure homes and Bank of America foreclosed homes
The biggest United States bank - the Bank of America is found in Charlotte, N.C..
Almost everybody have heard about Countrywide Financial - the institution that obtained a loan of more then 4 billions USD, and finally became a reason for a mortgage crisis. Exactly the Bank of America provided the loan for Countrywide Financial.
Finally in summer 2008 BofA became an official owner of this huge bank and turned into the most powerful mortgage lender in the USA. This transaction was very successful - on one hand Countrywide avoided the total financial collapse, on the other hand Bank of America improved its positions on market.
Nowadays you can find Countrywide bank owned homes or Bank of America bank owned homes on many internet portals. Many sites provide foreclosure listings as paid serivice, but you can easily find wellknown web resources where foreclosure listings is in free access including bank owned properties, government foreclosures, HUD foreclosures for sale, tax liens, FHA foreclosures, VA foreclosures, and other types of foreclosure properties. You can visit some of them:
www.indexpost.com - free foreclosure listings and bank foreclosures database;
www.reodev.com - REO properties and foreclosed homes listings for free.
It has to be stressed out, that this deal let the BofA have its own part in 25% of mortgage home loans in the US. The transaction described above is only one example out of a number of cases, when financial institution gets substantial advantages after dealing with trouble lenders. Such kind of loans are also called subprime loans, of course this situation attracted a lot of attention, all owners of subprime loans were experiencing a number of investigations. The main source of financial resources for loans is the money saved on deposit accounts by clients. But Countrywide Financial has another scheme for its operations, it takes loans on the Wall Street, so it gets amount of money enough to invest it in mortgages, and finally sell these home mortgage loans on secondary market.
These transactions are repeated over and over, which gives the possibility the investors and borrowers get their profit. This cycle worked great until we faced the mortgage crisis. After becoming the owner of Countrywide Financial the Bank of America became the owner of over 5800 branches situated in 31 different states in US.
Also Bank of America posseses 700 loan offices and 200 banking centres located all over the United States of America.
Taking into account that almost all borrowers loose their homes at the end, this input of money is very profitable transaction for Countrywide Financial executives.
In the nearest plans of BofA is to take a decision which will enable more then 260 thousand borrowers with problem loans keep their homes. It will happen after modifying more then 40 billion US dollars of mortgages. All this is supposed to to be held during the next two years. A number of problem borrowers leads to increase of Countrywide foreclosure properties amount.
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