Search for Countrywide foreclosed properties and Bank of America REO homes
The biggest US bank - the Bank of America is found in Charlotte, N.C..
A lot of people knows about Countrywide Financial - the financial institution that obtained a loan of more then 4,1 billions US dollars, and finally created a basics for a mortgage crisis. Exactly the Bank of America provided the loan for Countrywide Financial.
As a result of this financial operation the bank of America became an owner of the greatest consumer bank all over United States. This transaction was very successful - on one hand Countrywide was saved from financial fail, on the other hand Bank of America got more influence on foreclosure market.
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Take into account, that this operation let the BofA have its own part in 25% of home mortgages in the US. The transaction described above is simply one example out of millions of cases, when bank gets substantial advantages after creating trouble loans. These 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. Normally as a source of money for mortgages banks use the money saved on deposit accounts by clients. But Countrywide Financial acts in different way, it operates on Wall Street as a borrower, so it receives amount of money enough to invest it in mortgages, and finally sell these mortgages on foreclosure market.
These transactions are repeated again and again, which gives the possibility the lenders and borrowers get their profit. This scheme worked great until we faced the mortgage crisis. After becoming the owner of Countrywide Financial the Bank of America received in its property over 5800 branches situated in 31 different states in US.
More over Bank of America owns 700 loan offices and 200 banking centres situated all over the United States of America.
Taking into account that almost all borrowers loose their real estate at the end, this acquisition is highly profitable transaction for Countrywide Financial executives.
The next step of BofA will enable more then 260 thousand borrowers with bed debts keep their real estate. It will happen owing to modifying more then 40 billion US dollars of mortgages. All this is planned to to be held during the next two years. A great amount of clients with problem loans results into increase of Countrywide REO homes amount.
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