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Terms Used In Iowa Code 654.3

  • 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: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
654.3 Venue.
An action for the foreclosure of a mortgage of real property, or for the sale thereof under an encumbrance or charge thereon, shall be brought in the county in which the property to be affected, or some part thereof, is situated.
[C73, §2578; C97, §3493; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §12374; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77,
79, 81, §654.3]