Irish banks that sell repossessed properties at a loss can pursue homeowners for the difference.
Her marriage was falling apart, her car had been repossessed and her home faced foreclosure.
The investigation began in 2011, and looked into whether borrowers had unlawfully had their homes repossessed.
Lenders repossessed less homes in 2012, allowing more defaulted borrowers to sell their properties in short sales.
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Engines, auxiliary-power units, landing gears and even passenger seats are missing from many of the 17 repossessed aircraft.
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RealtyTrac forecasts that between 500, 000 and 600, 000 homes will end up being repossessed by banks nationally this year.
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Many people have repossessed and rebuilt their houses but no longer live there.
They are struggling to prevent Carmen's house from being repossessed by the state.
Taken to court by her building society, she was only saved from having her flat repossessed by a sympathetic judge.
Another man in the city of Granada, whose house was also due to be repossessed, apparently committed suicide last month.
The scheme involves housing associations purchasing vacant or repossessed homes to fix up and then sell on the market at a discount.
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Initially repossessed by the former Anglo Irish Bank, it eventually came under the control of the Irish government's National Asset Management Agency (Nama).
Abbeydale Picture House, which was owned by a community group, was run as an arts venue before being repossessed by the bank earlier this year.
The court heard Williams had lost his job as a carer at a nursing home, his home had been repossessed and he began drinking heavily.
When the Taggart group collapsed in 2008 the site was repossessed.
In Greece they are well down the route of refusing to pay road tolls, blockading courts trying to sell repossessed houses, refusing to collect VAT etc.
The Irish government's National Asset Management Agency (Nama) has effectively repossessed an English shopping centre that was owned by two of Northern Ireland's wealthiest property developers.
It could have been worse: Spanish banks have repossessed huge amounts of land that had not yet been built on, and residential-mortgage standards are rather conservative.
But the 30-day-free-parking policy was largely forgotten after auto makers, saying they couldn't turn a profit on such models, canceled production and repossessed many of the cars.
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This money was invested in joint ventures with the Orana property group - most of the properties in these ventures have been effectively repossessed by Ulster Bank.
That may be an overshoot because several major lenders suspended foreclosure and sale of repossessed homes until they are able to clear a way through the foreclosure logjam.
And there's a further problem now: with so many buy-to-let properties being repossessed, one may well end up in the same situation again in a few months' time.
Meanwhile, aircraft-leasing companies that repossessed some of the nearly four dozen planes used by Kingfisher have found a nasty surprise: Most of the planes have been stripped of key parts.
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Arun Mishra, India's director general of civil aviation, said only two of the 17 repossessed aircraft have received airworthiness certificates, which allow them to be flown out of the country.
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While at Stanford Law School he saw friends with Internet jobs "get rich and then repossessed, " so he was determined to pursue his business in a town with a slower pace.
Low interest rates, which some think will persist into 2013 or even beyond, may help keep tens of thousands of people in their homes when they might otherwise have been repossessed.
Yet the reasoning behind the current bankruptcy provisions is logical enough: education is an asset that cannot be repossessed and that keeps on benefiting the individual through his or her lifetime.
Mr Nigel Wraith, defending, said Reid was depressed and under financial pressure at the time and would risk having his home repossessed and losing contact with his four children if sent to jail.
Arntzen went on to restructure a number of shipping companies and run a fleet of ten repossessed ships himself, displaying a knack for getting agreements signed amid a swirl of conflicting shareholder and lender interests.
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