Real Estate Foreclosures
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Real Estate Foreclosures have become very common in the United States Of America real estate market. For various financial reasons it has been observed that the borrowers are not been able to square up the borrowed amount within the specified time frame. Hence, the financial institutions (government organizations, private financial organizations, banks, etc.) who gave loan to the real estate owners on the collateral of the property itself have no other option but to seize the same from the owner. After seizing the concerned property, the creditor or the financial institution needs to recover the loan but the extent and amount of effort required in this is uncalled for. Hence they use the auction route for recovering at least some of the amount of loan. This process of recovery of the loan amount by the credit institution in case of default by the borrower is known as Real Estate Foreclosures.
This process of Real Estate Foreclosures generally finishes with the following outcomes :-
- Generally, a grace period is offered by the state to the borrower of the loan for repaying the indebted amount. This period is known as pre-foreclosure period. So, the first and the most desirable outcome in this process is that the borrower repays the amount within this specified period of time and consequently regains the ownership status on the concerned real estate property.
- The person who has borrowed the loan amount might sell off the concerned real estate property to another person except the creditor and consequently square off the debt amount. It might seem baffling but the real purpose behind such a move is to maintain a good credit rating.
- An auction could be organized within the pre-foreclosure period so that any one from the blues can bid out other person and have the possession right of the property.
- The creditor of the loan, after the end of the pre-foreclosure period, can have the ownership right on the real estate property and then recover the loanable amount (either in part or in entirety) by either selling it or auctioning it in the real estate market.
Real Estate Foreclosures are becoming more and more common in USA because the individuals who are buying the real estates with mortgaged loans are not able to square-off the same in the specified period of time.
