Bank Foreclosure List Keeps Growing In Iowa

Normally, banks do not want to have foreclosure properties in their portfolios because they represented losses and not profits. However, as the number of delinquent loans continues to increase in Iowa, many banks are finding themselves holding more foreclosed properties.

In the second quarter of this year, properties on a bank foreclosure list were worth about $330 million, representing an increase of 670 percent from the almost $43 million foreclosure properties held by banks in the same period in 2004, according to a statistical report from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

According to industry experts, foreclosed properties that were not purchased at auctions are placed on banks portfolio as real-estate owned (REO). The number of REOs has been increasing since April 2006 when the countrys economy started to make a downturn, taking along the housing market.

Experts said that there are some signs that the problems in the residential real estate market is starting to ease up. But the trouble seems to have just crossed over to the commercial real estate market as more and more buildings are at risk foreclosure.

Bank-owned foreclosure homes in Iowa dropped to almost $56 million in April to June period, prompting some experts to hope that the worst of the foreclosure problem is finally over in Iowa. But the trend is different in the commercial market as the number of bank-owned commercial properties rose to 25.3 percent to $90.2 million in the second quarter from $72 million in the previous quarter.

The number of foreclosed construction properties, including empty lands and half-finished structures, increased by almost 34.5 percent in the second quarter to $156.5 million compared with $116.3 million in the first quarter.

Industry experts are hoping that the second quarter rise in commercial foreclosures was the worst that the market would experience. Bankers Trust chief lending officer and senior vice president Don Coffin said that the second quarter was the peak. He said that in the second quarter, the banks portfolio contained commercial foreclosures amounting to $35.8 million.

The bank moved majority of its troubled mortgages from nonperforming loans to REOs. Experts said that many banks want to get rid of their real estate as quickly as they can and at the best and fair price that they can have.

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