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If we compare the assets of banks, then we can say, that the greatest bank is Bank of America.
Everyone have heard about Countrywide Financial - the institution that took a loan of around four billions USD, and finally created a basics for a mortgage crisis. Exactly the Bank of America provided the loan for Countrywide Financial.
As Countrywide Financial failed to pay back, Bank of America became the biggest foreclosure lender in the country. This transaction was very successful - on one hand Countrywide was saved from financial fail, on the other hand Bank of America improved its positions on market.
Nowadays you can find Countrywide bank owned homes or BofA foreclosures on many internet portals. Many sites give access to foreclosure listings as paid serivice, but you can easily find wellknown web resources where foreclosed homes is absolutelly free including bank owned foreclosures, government foreclosures, HUD homes, tax foreclousres, FHA foreclosures, VA foreclosed homes, 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.
Take into account, that this acquisition let the BofA have its own part in 25% of mortgage home loans in the US. This case is just one example out of thousands of cases, when financial institution gets huge advantages after dealing with trouble lenders. These 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 acts in different way, it borrows money on the Wall Street, so it obtains amount of money enough to invest it in mortgages, and after all sell these home mortgage loans on mortgage market.
These transactions are repeated over and over, which gives a chance the investors and borrowers get their profit. 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 over 5800 branches situated 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 homes at the end, this investment is highly profitable deal 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 problem loans keep their homes. It will happen due to modifying more then 40 billion US dollars of mortgages. All this is planned to happen during the next two years. A rising amount of clients with problem loans leads to increase of Countrywide REO homes amount.
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