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- 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
- First Home Buyers Hit By Grant Reduction
- A reduction in the federal government's first home buyers grant and tighter lending conditions have made it harder for first time home buyers to get a home loan, a mortgage broker says.Loan Market Group chief operating officer Dean Rushton said 30 per cent of first home buyers who make...
- News items 2009-11-13
- Is The U.S. Housing Market Ready To Stand On Its Own?
- Is the U.S. housing market ready to stand on its own? Let's see: According to its latest monthly survey, John Burns Real Estate Consulting reports that 59 percent of new home buyers rely on low-down payment government-backed mortgages, including FHA, VA, or USDA financing with 96.5 to...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Should Congress Extend the Tax Credit for Home Buyers?
- Congress is currently debating two bills that would extend the life of the $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers, which expires December 1. Is this a good idea? The answer recalls the joke about putting two economists in a room with a problem and getting three answers. ...
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- 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
- $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
- Free Money: How Many Homeowners Took The $8,000 Tax Credit?
- Free money falling - better act fast to scoop it up. In a speech last week, Vice President Joe Biden announced that some 320,000 first time home buyers took up the government on its offer of an $8,000 tax credit. If the national median home price in...
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- $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
- $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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Buying a Foreclosure: 4 Smart Rules
- Let's get one thing out of the way: If you think that shopping foreclosure auctions is your ticket to a once-in-a-lifetime deal on a dream house, it's time to lower your expectations. ...
- Articles 2009-07-06
- 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
- Home Buyer's Vocabulary
- The article explains the definitions provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. That helps to clear the doubts related to real estate covering land acquisitions. Terms are defined as they are commonly understood in the mortgage and real estate industry. The definitions are intentionally general, non-technical and...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Buying A House Next Year? Don't Worry About The Competition.
- I've been speaking with real estate professionals around the country about the extension and expansion of the home buyer tax credit. Most are thrilled that they will have this incentive to lure prospective home buyers for another six months or so. Those who are working with home...
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
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- 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
- 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
- Home buyer seeks further negotiation. (Home Insurance Co.)
- Home Buyer Seeks Further Negotiation TVH Acquisition Corp. has notified Ambase Corp. that in its due diligence activities, conducted as part of its agreement to acquire Home Ins. Co., certain issues were uncovered which would require further negotiaHome Buyer Seeks Further Negotiation ...
- Research articles 1990-11-26
- 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
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