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The biggest US bank - the Bank of America is found in Charlotte, N.C..
A lot of people have heard about Countrywide Financial - the organization that received a loan of more then 4 billions american dollars, and finally created a basics for a mortgage crisis. Exactly the Bank of America invested the money in stock capital of Countrywide Financial.
As Countrywide Financial failed to pay back, Bank of America became the biggest foreclosure lender in the country. Both sides had their own advantages in this purchase operation - on one hand Countrywide was saved from financial fail, on the other hand Bank of America got more influence on foreclosure market.
Nowadays you can find Countrywide foreclosure homes or Bank of America bank owned properties on many internet portals. Many sites give access to foreclosure listings as paid serivice, but you can easily find wellknown web resources where foreclosure listings is totally free including bank owned properties, government foreclosures, HUD foreclosures, tax foreclousres, FHA foreclosures, VA foreclosures, and other types of foreclosure properties. You can visit some of them:
www.indexpost.com - free foreclosure listings and bank foreclosures database;
www.reodev.com - REO properties and foreclosed homes listings for free.
It is important to mention, that this deal let the BofA have its own part in 25% of home loans in the United States. The situation described is only one example out of a number of cases, when bank gets substantial advantages after dealing with trouble lenders. Such kind of loans are also called subprime loans, of course this situation attracted a lot of attention, all owners of subprime loans were investigated. 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 operates on Wall Street as a borrower, so it receives amount of money enough to invest it in mortgages, and finally sell these home loans on secondary market.
These transactions are held over and over, which gives the possibility the lenders and borrowers get their additional money. This scenario worked great 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 unites 700 loan offices and 200 banking centres located all over the United States of America.
Taking into consideration that almost all borrowers loose their houses at the end, this input of money is highly 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 problem loans save their houses. It will happen due to modifying more then 40 billion US dollars of mortgages. All this is planned to to be realized during the next two years. A number of borrowers with bad debts results into increase of Countrywide foreclosures number.
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