Search for Countrywide foreclosed homes and Bank of America REO
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 institution that received a loan of around 4 billions american dollars, and finally became a reason for a mortgage crisis. Exactly the Bank of America invested the money in stock capital of 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 Financial avoided the bankruptcy, on the other hand Bank of America got more power as a financial institution.
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Take into account, that this transaction let the BofA have its own part in 25% of home loans in the United States. The situation described is simply one example out of great number 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 owners of trouble 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 has another scheme for its operations, it borrows money on the Wall Street, so it obtains amount of money enough to invest it in mortgages, and after all sell these mortgages on foreclosure market.
These transactions are held over and over, which enables the investors and borrowers get their profit. This scenario worked great until we faced the mortgage crisis. After the Countrywide Financial became the part of the Bank Of America, the latter obtained over 5800 branches situated in 31 different states in US.
More over Bank of America owns 700 loan offices and 200 banking centres located all over the United States of America.
Taking into consideration that a number of borrowers loose their real estate at the end, this acquisition is very successful operation for Countrywide Financial executives.
The activity which BofA is planning to undertake now will give a possibility around 260 thousand borrowers with bed debts save their houses. It will happen owing to modifying more then 40 billion US dollars of mortgages. All this is planned to happen during the next two years. A great amount of clients with problem loans leads to increase of Countrywide REO homes amount.
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