§ 128. Minimum bid of trustee at sale on foreclosure to be fixed by court. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, on application for judgment of foreclosure and sale in an action brought to foreclose a trust indenture, deed of trust or mortgage upon real property, except where a plan of reorganization shall have been consented to by one hundred per centum of all the bondholders or where a minimum and maximum sum at which the trustee shall bid for the property has been set forth in a plan of reorganization and approved by the court in a proceeding for the reorganization of the property covered by trust indenture under sections one hundred and twenty-one and one hundred and twenty-two of this chapter, the court shall determine what is a fair upset price below which the property shall not be sold and the judgment directing the foreclosure and sale shall fix the minimum price which the trustee or his agent or nominee shall bid for the property.

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Terms Used In N.Y. Real Property Law 128

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Property: shall mean and include all of the real property or any incidental personal property constituting the underlying security for mortgage investments. See N.Y. Real Property Law 125
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Trustee: shall mean and include any person, firm, association or corporation named, appointed or designated as such in any deed of trust, trust indenture or other similar instrument or any successor of such trustee. See N.Y. Real Property Law 125