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Repossession, colloquially repo, is a "self-help" type of action in which the party having right of ownership of a property takes the property in question back from the party having right of possession without invoking court proceedings. The property may then be sold by either the financial institution or third party sellers. [1]
Foreclosure investment refers to the process of investing capital in the public sale of a mortgaged property following foreclosure of the loan secured by that property. In real estate , foreclosure is the termination of the equity of redemption of a mortgagor or the grantee in the property covered by the mortgage.
A contract for buying a house said time was of the essence. The sellers said the 25% deposit was forfeit after the buyers failed to pay the balance in 14 days as the contract required. The buyers tried to send the balance in a week later with interest. The deposit was a Jamaican $3m.
The foreclosure process as applied to residential mortgage loans is a bank or other secured creditor selling or repossessing a parcel of real property after the owner has failed to comply with an agreement between the lender and borrower called a "mortgage" or "deed of trust".
Foreclosure filings including default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions can include multiple notices on the same property. [26] During 2008, this increased to 2.3 million properties, an 81% increase over 2007. [27] Between August 2007 and September 2008, an estimated 851,000 homes were repossessed by lenders from homeowners. [28]
The 2010 United States foreclosure crisis, sometimes referred to as Foreclosure-gate or Foreclosuregate, [1] [2] refers to a widespread epidemic of improper foreclosures initiated by large banks and other lenders. The foreclosure crisis was extensively covered by news outlets beginning in October 2010, and several large banks—including Bank ...
REO sale property in San Diego, California. Real estate owned, or REO, is a term used in the United States to describe a class of property owned by a lender—typically a bank, government agency, or government loan insurer—after an unsuccessful sale at a foreclosure auction. [1]
Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman, Texas District 14, former candidate for Republican nomination for U.S. President; Chuck Baldwin, 2008 presidential candidate for the Constitution Party