Bank owned foreclosures are properties repossessed after the foreclosure sale public auction. In the case of foreclosure processes through courts, banks follow the legal proceedings against the defaulted property owners and file a law suit in the county court.
The process is a long drawn one by proving the default of the barrowers with documents, send legal notices to the barrowers, wait for the court order to fix a date for sheriff sale public auction, conduct the public auction through the court official and if no one is coming forward to accept the opening bid, take repossession of the concerned property. Wherever legal proceedings are involved, foreclosed homes take a longer time to accumulate in their books, owing to the delay in court proceedings, which may take 9 months to one year at times.
On the other hand wherever the State foreclosure laws permit, banks prefer to go through the non-judicial trustee sale option, by way of inserting a clause in their mortgage deed. This provides a faster mode to finish the entire foreclosure process within 3 to 4 months and bring the delinquent properties to a trustee sale public auction. Here again if no one is bidding the opening bid, the property is taken repossession and is listed for sale as a foreclosure.
The foreclosure fiasco sweeping the US nation for the last few years has made hundreds of thousands of properties as bank foreclosures. Basically these are properties well scrutinized by the banks before issuing the Home loans for clearance of title, stability of construction, adherence of State laws regarding health hazards etc. Later on if the home owners had subjected the property for any debt, tax-liens or second mortgage after purchasing them with home loans extended by the institution, all these encumbrances are to be cleared by the banks at the time of taking repossession of the concerned property.
Home buyers or investors can select these properties confidently, in view of the advantages offered by these homes. First these properties will have clear titles regarding ownership as scrutinized by the banks earlier and the banks become their owners because of the repossession – either through a sheriff sale or trustee sale. So these bank owned homes avoid any legal wrangles later on. Secondly as the banks would have wiped off any second mortgage, tax-liens, or debts attached to these properties already at the time of repossession, they are encumbrance free to enjoy possession without any worries.
The properties lying as bank owned foreclosures will be kept neat and tidy in a marketable condition by the Banks all those months, before handing over to the buyers. So the buyers need not get embarrassed by the emotional conflict in vacating the previous distressed home owners and they can very well start living on buying these bank properties.
Finally the prices quoted for these bank owned foreclosures represent only the outstanding loan amount on them and so well below the market value. Additionally buyers can have a bargain, because of the selling pressure on these properties on the selling price, payment upfront, interest rate on balance payment and closing cost on finalizing the home buying deal.
Kevin Simpson, has been working on USREOProperties.com studying the foreclosures market, helping buyers on the finer points of Real Estate Owned homes. Try to visit USREOProperties.com and begin your REO Foreclosures search.
Kevin Simpson, GM Sales & Marketing, USREOProperties.com
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