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SunTrust buys bankrupt Wake Forest development


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Upscale Wake Forest development facing foreclosure
Upscale Wake Forest development facing foreclosure

SunTrust purchased the Hasentree Golf Course community Friday in a bankruptcy auction, officials said.

About 50 homes on the upscale, 934-acre development in Wake Forest are either completed or under construction. Only half of those are occupied or have customers locked in, Hasentree Corp. developer Henry MacNair said.

The community is planned for 650 homes ranging in price from about $800,000 to more than $5 million, a Tom Fazio-designed championship golf course, a 30,000-square-foot clubhouse and a 13,000-square-foot family activities center.

SunTrust foreclosed on the project in December, and the bank couldn't find anyone at Friday's auction willing to pay more than its $32 million bid.

The bank is trying to recover about $39 million borrowed by the developer.

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TARP funds have nothing to do with a loan in default. They have no choice but to buy in the property as OREO (Other Real Estate Owned) and hold it until times are better and they can find a buyer. At a court ordered foreclosure sale, if the bank didn't buy it, someone could have bought the entire development for a dollar. They are just protecting the bank's and stockholders of SunTrust's interest. I'll guarantee that owning this is the last thing they wanted to happen.

wow knothead that makes 2 of us

they need to make it a big hunting club

I'll give them $100 a year to let me hunt out there. Be a great hunting club.

wow....with the economy the way it is...why are they building these homes....that will go into forclosure like the other high dollar homes in that area? Then again, it is society that bites off more than they can chew

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