The nation’s fastest-growing union, the Service Employees International Union, calls the combination of the United States’ largest mortgage lender with largest bank when both institutions are facing mounting losses and potentially destabilizing risks bad for consumers, bad for business, and bad for America. (more…)

Bank of America Corporation has announced a definitive agreement to purchase Countrywide Financial Corp. in an all-stock transaction worth approximately $4 billion.

The purchase will make Bank of America the nation’s largest mortgage lender and loan servicer. This is an important advancement in the company’s desire to help customers and clients meet all of their financial needs. A mortgage is one of the key foundations of many customer relationships. (more…)

Bank of America Corporation has made an investment in Countrywide Financial Corporation, the largest mortgage lender in the United States.

Bank of America will invest $2 billion in the form of a non-voting convertible preferred security yielding 7.25 percent annually. The security can be converted into common stock at $18 per share. (more…)

J.D. Power and Associates released their results of a study of mortgage lenders and customer satisfaction. The 2006 Primary Mortgage Origination Study is based on responses from 4,115 consumers who originated a new mortgage in the previous nine months. The study was fielded between October and November 2006.

And the winner is? (more…)

Bank of America recently commissioned a survey done by MARC Research on the reason for people taking out home improvement loans. 60% of those surveyed claim that their goal is to increase the home’s value.

The survey also showed that 56% of homeowner’s did major home improvements prior to putting the home on the market for sale. (more…)