Search for Countrywide foreclosure homes and Bank of America foreclosed homes
If we compare the assets of banks, then we can say, that the greatest bank is Bank of America.
Almost everybody have heard about Countrywide Financial - the financial institution that took a loan of around four billions US dollars, 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. It was successful operation - on one hand Countrywide avoided the total financial collapse, on the other hand Bank of America got more influence on foreclosure market.
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Just imagine, that this acquisition let the BofA have its own part in 25% of home loans in the US. The situation described is just one example out of millions of cases, when bank wins huge advantages after financing problem loans. These loans are also called 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 acts in different way, it borrows money on the Wall Street, so it receives amount of money enough to invest it in mortgages, and finally sell these home mortgage loans on mortgage market.
These transactions are held again and again, which gives the possibility the investors and borrowers 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 became the owner of over 5800 branches located in 31 different states in US.
Also Bank of America posseses 700 loan offices and 200 banking centres situated all over the United States of America.
Taking into consideration that a number of borrowers loose their homes at the end, this investment is very successful transaction for Countrywide Financial executives.
In the nearest plans of BofA is to take a decision which will give a chance more then 260 thousand borrowers with bed debts save their real estate. It will happen due to modifying more then 40 billion US dollars of mortgages. All this is planned to to be held during the upcoming two years. A big number of clients with problem loans results into increase of Countrywide REO number.
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