Search for Countrywide foreclosures and Bank of America foreclosures
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 trouble lender that obtained a loan of more then 4,1 billions USD, and finally became a reason 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. 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 power as a financial institution.
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It is important to mention, that this transaction let the BofA have its own part in 25% of home mortgages in the America. The situation described is only one example out of thousands of cases, when financial institution wins 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 trouble loans were investigated. The main source of financial resources for loans is the money saved on deposit accounts by clients. But Countrywide Financial has another scheme for its operations, it takes loans on the Wall Street, so it obtains amount of money enough to invest it in mortgages, and finally sell these home loans on secondary market.
These transactions are repeated again and again, which gives a chance the parts get their additional money. This cycle 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 located in 31 different states in US.
More over Bank of America posseses 700 loan offices and 200 banking centres situated all over the United States of America.
Taking into account that a number of borrowers loose their real estate at the end, this investment is very profitable operation for Countrywide Financial executives.
In the nearest plans of BofA is to take a decision which will allow more then 260 thousand borrowers with problem loans save their real estate. It will happen due to modifying more then 40 billion US dollars of mortgages. All this is planned to to be realized during the upcoming two years. A great amount of clients with problem loans leads to increase of Countrywide foreclosure properties number.
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