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- New Tax Credit For Home Buyers
- Economic stimulus gives first-time home buyers $8,000 bonus. If you're thinking about buying a home this year, you're in luck. The economic stimulus bill that President Obama signed contains a big tax break for home buyers who haven't owned a home in the previous three years. The new home buyer...
- White papers 2009-02-19
- Can Sen. Johnny Isakson Save The $8,000 Tax Credit?
- The good news in the real estate market (or what's passing for good news lately) seems to be working against Sen. Johnny Isakson's (R-Ga) quest to extend and expand the $8,000 first time home buyer tax credit. Let's start with a short review of where we've been:...
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
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- Is the $8,000 First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit Enough to Save the Housing Market?
- June's new construction and existing home sales numbers are out, and I think they're a mixed bag: New home sales increased 11 percent in June over May, according to the U.S. Commerce Dept. That's the highest amount in 9 years, and welcome bit of news for market-beaten developers....
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- $15,000 Home Buyer Tax Credit Gets Another Boost
- It isn't just the National Association of Realtors, Mortgage Bankers Association of America, the National Association of Home Builders and Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) who want a $15,000 home buyer tax credit. According to Bruce Hahn, president of the American Homeowners Grassroots Alliance, 70 million homeowners want...
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- Does the $8,000 First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit Discriminate?
- Does the $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit discriminate based on income? One MoneyWatch.com reader thinks so.  Ann sent me the following email: Is there any avenue to file a complaint against the government for discrimination related the $8,000 new home buyer tax credit? The complaint is based on income...
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- $15,000 Home Buyer Tax Credit Rejected For Cash For Clunkers Bill
- It's Cash for Clunkers - but for home buyers. That's how Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) described his $15,000 home buyer tax credit proposal. The proposed legislation would have given a $15,000 tax credit to any home buyer who bought a home, regardless of income. Sen. Isakson's proposal...
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Realtors Issue Call To Action to Extend $8,000 First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit
- When the going gets tough, the National Association of Realtors contacts its million-plus members and encourages them to get going. That's what happened yesterday, as the Realtors put up a video encouraging its member real estate agents and brokers to contact their Congressional representatives demanding an extension...
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- Home Buyer Tax Credit: How to Cash In
- The new extension of the home-buyer tax credit gives buyers more time and more opportunity to take advantage. Income limits have changed, for instance, and you no longer have to be a first-time home buyer. Here?s how to grab the newly expanded tax break. Here’s what you need to...
- Articles 2009-11-09
- HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan Says "Maybe" to $15,000 Home Buyer Tax Credit
- Who wants a $15,000 home buyer tax credit? In Georgia parlance, "Don't y'all raise your hands at the same time." Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) proposed last week that all home buyers (not just first-time buyers or those who have not owned a home in the past 3 years)...
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- IRS Warns: Don't Take $8,000 First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit If You're Not Eligible
- It had to happen: With $8,000 in free cash available to first-time home buyers (and those who haven't owned a home in the past three years), somebody had to take advantage of the situation. The Internal Revenue Service announced this morning its first successful prosecution related to fraud...
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- A four-year-old buys a house, and other first-time home-buyer tax credit tricks
- From a Treasury Inspector General's report to Congress: Through July 25, 2009, we identified more than 580 taxpayers younger than 18 years of age who claimed almost $4 million in First-Time Homebuyer Credits. The youngest taxpayers receiving the Credit were four years old. Contract law generally exempts children under the...
- News items 2009-10-23
- First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit
- The federal government has enacted a tax credit of up to $7,500 to encourage first-time home buyers to jump into the housing market. If you meet the relatively easy qualifications, you could find an extra $7,500 in your pocket as a bonus for buying your first home. The First-Time Home...
- White papers 2008-09-09
- NAHB: Congress must create home buyer tax credit
- The National Association of Home Builders has called on Congress to create a temporary home buyer tax credit along with other important tax measures to boost the faltering housing market and economy. "House prices and inventories obviously are central to the outlook for the economy and the financial markets,"...
- Research articles 2008-06-18
- $15,000 Tax Credit Is Too Rich, So How About A $10,000 Tax Credit For All Home Buyers?
- It looks like the $15,000 tax credit for all home buyers, even millionaires, is dead in the water. But don't count Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) out just yet. In a phone call this morning, he laid out plans for a $10,000 tax credit...
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- Does the $8,000 Tax Credit Really Cost $43,000 Per Buyer?
- Last week, TheBigMoney.com's Martha White made a persuasive argument that the $8,000 first time home buyer tax credit should be allowed to die a natural death. Why? Because, she argues, it doesn't cost $8,000 per each first-time buyer. If you break it down...
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- $8,000 Tax Credit Extension? White House Says Maybe.
- White House officials said today that they aren't totally sold on the proposals floating about to extend and expand the current $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit. Shaun Donovan, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD, told the Senate Banking Committee this morning that...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- How About a $15,000 Tax Credit For All Buyers, Even Millionaires
- The housing recovery is in danger of failing, taking with it the economy. What do you do? Senator Johnny Isakson (R-Georgia) has the solution: A bigger tax credit. The Gentleman from Georgia introduced legislation yesterday that would dramatically expand the $8,000 first-time buyer federal tax credit program: The bill nearly...
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Tax Credit to Steady, Not Rescue, Shaky U.S. Housing
- By Lynn AdlerNEW YORK (Reuters) - Don't expect the expanded home buyer tax credit to be a permanent cure for the U.S. housing market. It won't.Take the spike in mortgage demand created by the tax credit this summer. It was followed by a plunge as the incentive was set to...
- News items 2009-11-17
- The First-Time Buyer Tax Credit Explained
- Dear Ali: I had heard that the new tax credit for first-time buyers was a refund. Then someone told me that I could actually get the money up front, which would be a lot more helpful since houses are still expensive. How does this work? ...
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- $8,000 Tax Credit: What Will Happen to Real Estate When the Tax Credit Expires?
- Two months, 19 days. That's when the $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit expires. The real question is this: What will happen to the real estate market when the tax credit ends? Realtors, mortgage bankers and brokers, appraisers and millions...
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
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