Search for Countrywide foreclosed properties and Bank of America foreclosed homes
The largest US bank - the Bank of America is found in Charlotte, N.C..
Almost everybody have heard about Countrywide Financial - the organization that took a loan of around 4,1 billions american dollars, and finally created a basics for a mortgage crisis. Exactly the Bank of America financed this loan for Countrywide Financial.
As Countrywide Financial failed to pay back, Bank of America became the biggest foreclosure lender in the country. This acquisition was advantageous for both sides - on one hand Countrywide was saved from financial fail, on the other hand Bank of America improved its positions on market.
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We have to underline, that this transaction let the BofA have its own part in 25% of home loans in the America. The transaction described above is only one example out of thousands of cases, when bank gets substantial advantages after dealing with trouble lenders. Such kind of loans are also known as subprime loans, of course this situation attracted a lot of attention, all problem lenders 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 has another scheme for its operations, it takes loans on the Wall Street, so it receives amount of money enough to invest it in mortgages, and after all sell these loans on secondary market.
These transactions are repeated over and over, which gives the possibility the parts get their additional money. This cycle worked without problems until we faced the mortgage crisis. After becoming the owner of Countrywide Financial the Bank of America got under its control around 5800 branches located in 31 different states in US.
More over Bank of America controls 700 loan offices and 200 banking centres located all over the United States of America.
Taking into consideration that almost all borrowers loose their real estate at the end, this input of money is highly successful operation for Countrywide Financial executives.
The next step of BofA will give a chance around 260 thousand borrowers with problem loans keep their homes. It will happen due to modifying more then 40 billion US dollars of mortgages. All this is planned to to be realized during the following two years. A rising amount of problem borrowers results into increase of Countrywide foreclosed properties amount.
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