Properties, which has a status of VA foreclosure, is as a rule closely connected with mortgages of civilian veterans. To give the definition of VA foreclosure one has to find out, that the past buyer of the property was a Veteran of United States military forces, the branch is not important, and the mortgage provided by Federal Government, which gives the guarantee to the loan.

This Guarantee, given by Department of Veterans Affairs (VA guarantee) minimizes the risk of lender, as VA takes responsibility to cover all lender’s financial losses in case the house came into foreclosure. It means, that in case of failure lender returns all invested money, so this deal is surely profitable for investors.

VA foreclosure appear quite often, thousands of them occur monthly in the USA. If you want to purchase a VA foreclosure, then you has to pay an obligatory Funding Fee, implemented by Federal Government. The Funding Fee is a certain per cent of mortgage and it has a number of important purposes. For instance, it enables Veteran to buy an apartment with no money down. On USHUD.com one can easily find a list of VA foreclosures, if one takes the decision to purchase a house, listed on this website, he automatically gets all the advantages, mentioned above. For instance, there is no need to pay mortgage insurance and money down is not requested.

Veteran Administration foreclosures provides an list of advantages, such as:

• - Mortgages are flexible;
• - No mortgage insurance is needed, so no MIP (mortgage insurance premium) has to be paid;
• - All losses covered by Department of Veterans Affairs;
• - No need in money down.

So VA foreclosures are good investment choice which a lot of homebuyers and real estate investors prefers from all scope of foreclosure homes.

Post foreclosures (REO)

REO property or real estate owned property belongs to banks. How does it happen that banks own a real estate? Well, it is easy to understand: bank gives a loan, so mortgage appears, if client cant pay his dept and if there are no ways to avoid foreclosure, the home becomes the property of financial organization. It may seem that foreclosures can’t bring high profits as bank want to sell it offering the price which will at least cover the amount of the first loan. On the other hand, if you will be more attentive, you will see some ways to benefit greatly from buying a foreclosure house.

It may be the situation, when more then one loan is secured to the real estate; actually it happens quite often nowadays. In case second lender doesn’t make payments to the first lender and starts own foreclosure procedure, in this case the second lender is not part of foreclosure process any more. That is the main reason why plenty of second mortgages are valued around 20% less then the normal market price.

• Largest foreclosure lenders:
• FannieMae foreclosure properties
• Freddie Mac REO homes
• Countrywide foreclosed homes
• BofA Foreclosures
• Fifth Third Bank REO properties

Bank doesn’t benefit from being an owner of a house; it needs money to flow constantly to get higher net profit. More over keeping a foreclosure as an asset may cause additional expenses. That is why bank wants to sell this burden as soon as possible, and it is likely to accept even not high price, just to cover the dept.