Looking to buy a new home but worried you won’t be able to afford the monthly mortgage payment that comes with it? Sellers (i.e., banks or government agencies in the case of foreclosures) prefer working with buyers who they already know can qualify for a mortgage. Foreclosures are considered bad assets to banks and the longer they have them the more they want to get rid of them.
You’d have to understand what it means to buy this home now, if it has no equity, and wait to buy it out of foreclosure when the lender has canceled the mortgage. In the case of mortgage possession or repossession, if the home is sold or auctioned for a price that exceeds the loan balance, those funds are returned to the consumer.
Don’t skimp on the process and take time to thoroughly investigate the house before you make an offer. It’s a process by which a bank, a mortgage company or other lien holder seeks to take a property from an owner to satisfy a debt. In some cases, the owner may also have taken out second or third mortgages on his property, known as junior liens Typically, property sellers pay outstanding mortgage balances from sale proceeds, thus removing the mortgage lien(s).
This is what real estate agents refer to as “comps.” This is one step in the process that’s very similar to a regular (non-distressed) real estate transaction. Buying a foreclosed property can be a great deal—if you can handle some risk. If he owes $100,000 to the lender and $10,000 in back taxes, if the property goes to a tax sale, the lender would probably bid at the tax sale to preserve their mortgage rights.
Sign up for E-notify to receive monthly City Real Estate E-newsletters Subscribe to “City-Owned Homes” under New Property Sales Listings. It is also often paired with foreclosure by a power of sale, which allows lenders to sell a house at a trustee sale without initiating a lawsuit in court.