Search for Countrywide REO homes and Bank of America foreclosed properties
The largest US bank - the Bank of America is found in Charlotte, N.C..
Everyone have heard about Countrywide Financial - the trouble lender that obtained a loan of around four billions american dollars, and finally created a basics for a mortgage crisis. Exactly the Bank of America provided the loan for 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. It was successful operation - 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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It has to be stressed out, that this acquisition let the BofA have its own part in 25% of home mortgages in the United States. This case is only one example out of great number of cases, when organisation gets substantial advantages after financing problem loans. 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 works according the different scheme, it takes loans on the Wall Street, so it obtains amount of money enough to invest it in mortgages, and finally sell these home mortgages on mortgage market.
These transactions are held again and again, which gives the possibility the investors and borrowers get their profit. This scheme worked great until we faced the mortgage crisis. After the Countrywide Financial became the part of the Bank Of America, the latter got under its control over 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 account that almost all borrowers loose their houses at the end, this investment is very profitable operation for Countrywide Financial executives.
The activity which BofA is planning to undertake now will give a chance more then 260 thousand borrowers with bed debts save their houses. It will happen due to modifying more then 40 billion US dollars of mortgages. All this is supposed to to be realized during the following two years. A number of problem borrowers results into increase of Countrywide foreclosures amount.
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