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Bank of America, Charlotte, N.C., is auctioning off $26 billion in subprime servicing rights as well as the Jacksonville, Fla.-based platform of its EquiCredit unit.
As Mortgage Servicing News went to press this month, no deal had been struck, but interested parties were lining up to take a look at an offering book on EquiCredit put together by Goldman Sachs.
Goldman also is shopping a $1 billion pool of EquiCredit subprime whole loans, a deal that has caught the attention of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, sources said. (Goldman, Fannie and Freddie all declined to comment.)
Late in the summer, Bank of America liquidated EquiCredit's lending network, selling all of the unit's 96 subprime wholesale branches to two buyers: Aegis Mortgage of Houston and Resource Bancshares Mortgage Group, Columbia, S.C.
BoA's sale of $26 billion in servicing is the largest auction ever of subprime receivables, excluding franchise sales such as Citigroup's purchase earlier this year of Associates First Capital, Irving, Texas.
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