Search for Countrywide foreclosed properties and Bank of America REO
If you want to find the most important bank in USA, go to Charlotte, N.C. to Bank of America, which posses the highest assets.
Everyone knows about Countrywide Financial - the financial institution that got a loan of around 4,1 billions USD, and finally created a basics for a mortgage crisis. Exactly the Bank of America financed this 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 acquisition was advantageous for both sides - on one hand Countrywide Financial avoided the bankruptcy, on the other hand Bank of America improved its positions on market.
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It is important to mention, that this acquisition let the BofA have its own part in 25% of mortgage home loans in the US. The situation described is just one example out of millions of cases, when bank wins huge advantages after creating trouble loans. Such kind of loans are also called subprime loans, of course this situation attracted a lot of attention, all owners of trouble loans were investigated. Normally as a source of money for mortgages banks use the money saved on deposit accounts by clients. But Countrywide Financial works according the different scheme, it operates on Wall Street as a borrower, so it gets amount of money enough to invest it in mortgages, and after all sell these loans on mortgage market.
These transactions are held again and again, which gives the possibility the lenders and borrowers get their additional money. This scheme worked without problems until we faced the mortgage crisis. After becoming the owner of Countrywide Financial the Bank of America obtained over 5800 branches situated in 31 different states in US.
Also Bank of America owns 700 loan offices and 200 banking centres located all over the United States of America.
Taking into consideration that a lot of borrowers loose their houses at the end, this investment is very profitable deal for Countrywide Financial executives.
In the nearest plans of BofA is to take a decision which will give a possibility around 260 thousand borrowers with bed debts keep 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 problem borrowers results into increase of Countrywide REO homes number.
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