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I want to buy a bank owned property. How can I find out which bank owns that property? ?

I want to directly deal with the bank who owns that property. I don't want to go thorugh a broker. I have the address of that property only. Please help. Thanks

Public Comments

1. call and find out that's the best way
2. The bank will not talk to you, they will send you to their broker. But, if you want to get into a dual agent situation they will not stop you. Check the MLS to see who the broker is. Calling the bank will not help, there is no possible way you would get to a live person who would know.
3. don't do it he's just using you
4. Check the website of the county auditor where the house is located. It should show who currently owns the property.
5. Look up the title in the hall of records. And call code enforcement and complain that the Bank isn't doing the yard work.
6. Go to the court house for the area to see the records, tax data will show you who is on title. Alot of records like this are becoming available online, do a google search to see if you can find electronically available public records for your area.
7. County Assessor's office has the parcel number related to this address and the legal owner. but if its bank owned it will only say for example "Bank of America", you will have no idea who or where to call. A Realtor can look up the owner very easily in records available to them and title companies and you do not have to work with that Realtor. however, buying property on your own means you will not know ahead of time whether there are liens on the property (bills due like back taxes and sewer bills, etc) and whether you have to pay for them. so just the price of the house may not be all you have to pay. check it out first. by the way, an agent representing you as the buyer will not charge you any fees, it should be free. they will get a commission from the selling party, the bank.
8. Unless this is a smaller local bank which owns the property, you are wasting your time. The larger lenders don't want to and will not talk directly to buyers. They don't have the time to handle individual buyers for such properties, which is why they use real estate brokerage firms.