Bank of America (BoA) says it will extend its ban on sales of repossessed homes from 23 US states to all 50 as it looks for possible legal flaws.

美国钱庄说因为法律上的问题，它将把停止卖收回房子的范围从23个州扩大到全国50个州。

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The official overhang of existing homes (which excludes those repossessed) is not much lower.

官方的待出售成屋数量(不包括那些被收回所有权的房屋)也没低多少。

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More than four million homes have been repossessed in the past three years.

在过去的三年里，有400多万个家庭的房屋被收回。

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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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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.

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But in this recession, the US housing construction industry - which largely collapsed between 2006 and 2010 - has failed until now to recover, in large part due the difficulty in obtaining a mortgage, and a glut of cheap repossessed homes dumped on the market by the banks.

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