Banks in the United States in their lending business have been introduced to a new concept of “Bank foreclosure listings”, which was not there earlier.  Banks extend financial assistance to home buyers, as part of their routine business to derive income by way of interest for years.  This was sailing smooth in the U.S. country for centuries, as buying a home of their own was the common dream of Americans. But there came a big jolt in the US economy to slide downwards and with it came dramatic changes in the financial markets. Millions of housing and other properties became delinquent in repaying their mortgage loans, whereby the new concept of “Bank foreclosure listings” has come to stay.

Every bank worth the name in US is carrying a big list of delinquent properties for which they have extended home loans and sadly these Bank foreclosure listings are bulging with more and more properties being added, month after month. As per Real Estate Statistics, foreclosure filings are steadily increasing in almost every State, of which the top ten States are changing every month between – California; Florida; Nevada; Arizona; Michigan; Texas; Illinois; Georgia; Colorado; Utah; and Ohio.

A majority of the foreclosures – nearly 90% – are Bank foreclosures. To retrieve their money back, Banks have to inevitably initiate foreclosure action, once the barrower defaults in repayment of monthly installments of mortgage loan consecutively for 3 months.  The foreclosure process is governed by the foreclosure laws of the respective States – whether through County Courts to end in a Sheriff Sale or out-of-Court by virtue of a clause in the mortgage deed to end in a Trustee Sale, to dispose off the delinquent properties.

As such Bank foreclosure listings contain properties in 3 stages of foreclosure process – pre-foreclosure stage between issue of Default Notice and foreclosure sale public auction; actual foreclosure sale on the fixed date through public auction; and repossession by the Banks after foreclosure sale public auction, in the event of minimum bid is not forthcoming.

The one thing in common on all properties under Bank foreclosure listings is – all of them are dead-stocks on the books of the Bank and have an urgency to be disposed off, to convert them into hard cash. As such Bank foreclosure listings await prospective buyers of these properties as quickly as possible. This gives an excellent opportunity to home buyers and investors to search their dream property in the desired locations and buy them at prices well below the market value.

The savings home buyers can make in buying foreclosure properties in Bank foreclosure listings vary according to the stage of foreclosure they are in. In the case of pre-foreclosure properties the chances of discounts bargainable are more. The distressed home owners will be too willing to get rid of their property with sizeable discounts, to avoid foreclosure and thereby avoid the black mark on their credit history. The home buyers can locate such properties from Bank foreclosure filings and approach the home owners directly to negotiate the sale deal profitably.  Banks will also be happy that they get back their money without going into the hassles of expensive foreclosure process.

The other options of bidding in foreclosure public auction and buying repossessed properties from Bank foreclosure listings will also save thousands of dollars.

Julie Thompson, has been working on ForeclosureRepos.com studying the foreclosures market, helping buyers on the finer points of bank foreclosure listings. Try to visit ForeclosureRepos.com and begin your bank foreclosures by state search.

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