Credit Bid
A Credit Bid is a financial mechanism used primarily in bankruptcy auctions where a secured creditor participates as a bidder.
Mortgage-distress terms covering lender credit bids, power-of-sale rights, and borrower redemption periods.
Redemption Rights, Power of Sale, and Credit Bids covers default notices, pre-foreclosure, forbearance, loan modifications, short sales, deeds in lieu, foreclosure processes, REO, distressed sales, and mortgage fraud terms.
Use these pages when missed payments, enforcement rights, borrower relief, lender recovery, or distressed collateral changes the finance analysis. It sits inside Foreclosure Processes and Sale Rights, so readers can move up when the broader property-finance context matters.
Use the table below to choose the narrower mortgage or real-estate finance branch before applying a term to a loan file, closing record, servicing review, investor report, appraisal, or valuation model. Move into the term page when the document, calculation, party role, lien position, or property cash flow matters.
| Area | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Credit Bid | A Credit Bid is a financial mechanism used primarily in bankruptcy auctions where a secured creditor participates as a bidder. |
| Power of Sale | Mortgage or deed-of-trust clause that lets a lender or trustee sell collateral after default without a full judicial foreclosure case. |
| Redemption Period | Time window in which a borrower or former owner may still reclaim foreclosed property by paying the required amount under applicable law. |
| Right of Redemption | Borrower right to reclaim mortgaged property by paying the required amount before foreclosure sale and, in some places, for a limited time after sale. |
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A Credit Bid is a financial mechanism used primarily in bankruptcy auctions where a secured creditor participates as a bidder.
Mortgage or deed-of-trust clause that lets a lender or trustee sell collateral after default without a full judicial foreclosure case.
Time window in which a borrower or former owner may still reclaim foreclosed property by paying the required amount under applicable law.
Borrower right to reclaim mortgaged property by paying the required amount before foreclosure sale and, in some places, for a limited time after sale.