Bank of America Facing Problems in the Sunshine State
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
In Bank of America’s most recent quarterly report, the state with the lowest mortgage portfolio was Florida. In fact, according to other reports, the market in Florida was under-performing compared to other states. In total Bank of America faced a total of $19.9 million in net losses from the Florida mortgage portfolio and also faced the poorest performance from the home equity loans. The nonperforming ratio for B of A’s total home equity loans was 1.52 percent. Florida relies on Bank of America for its second largest banking institution, providing 72 different branches, with $5.6 billion deposits and 17.97 percent market share.

