114 Articles match "Buyer","Homes"

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• High Anxiety Over the $8,000 Home Buyer Tax Credit
  
  High Anxiety Over the $8,000 Home Buyer Tax Credit September 16, 2009, Wall Street Journal Builders are so eager for an extension and expansion of the popular first-time home-buyer tax credit, they’re taking out ads. The National Association of...( read more ) ...Tags:
  Foreclosure Pulse - Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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• Fight in Congress Looms on Tax Break for Home Buyers
  
  Fight in Congress Looms on Tax Break for Home Buyers The New York Times DALLAS — When Congress passed an $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers last winter, it was intended as a dose of shock therapy during a crisis. Now the question is becoming...( read more
  Foreclosure Pulse - Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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• Are Tax Credits For First-Time Buyers Too Costly
  
  After a number of fumbles and failures, it seems that government has finally found a way increase home sales. The trick? A little tax incentive briber
  RealtyTrac Article Library - Monday, October 12, 2009
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• How to Buy HUD Home Foreclosures - RealtyTrac
  
  How Can I Buy HUD Home Foreclosures? Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Search nearly 650,000 Foreclosure and Government properties. More than 1 million total properties including For Sale by Owner, HUD Home Foreclosures, Resale, and Home Auctions! Almost anyone can qualify... Almost anyone can qualify to buy a home owned by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (a HUD home) so long as they
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Housing glut gives foreclosure buyers and investors advantage
  
  Home prices and sales plunge Sales of existing single-family homes declined in 40 states and in half of the nation’s biggest metropolitan areas in the last three months of 2006, according to the National Association of Realtors . million vacant homes await buyers In addition to weaker sales and declining prices, a record number of homes are sitting vacant awaiting buyers. Storm clouds are gathering over the nation’s battered housing market. Depending on whom you ask, the forecast calls for either thunderstorms or gale force hurricane winds.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• New Poll: Buyers to Remain on the Fence
  
  If the results of the latest Associated Press-AOL Money & Finance poll are any indication, prospective home buyers will be keeping their wallets closed and remain on the fence at least until the latest economic downturn blows over. A majority of those polled for the survey expressed pessimism over the nation’s housing contraction (as the Federal Reserve calls it) enough to not consider buying a home anytime soon. And that could be years down the road. Other survey results included: • A quarter of the 769 homeowners included in the random sample of 1,002 adults
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• First-Time Buyers Get Help with CA Foreclosure Purchase
  
  Arnold Schwartzenegger announced Monday that CalFHA’s Community Stabilization Home Loan Program will dole out the money, expected to help as many as 1,000 Californians obtain their piece of homeownership. The catch is buyers have to be willing to buy their dream home in one of the designated areas approved by CalFHA — such as Alameda, Contra Costa and Riverside counties — and the foreclosure property must be specifically set aside for the program and owned by one of the participating lenders — including Wells Fargo, HomeEq, CitiMortgage and Fannie Mae.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Stop Home Foreclosure
  
  The "as is” appraised value and the sale price should be least 70 percent to 80 percent of the unpaid principal balance of the home. For example, if you owe $180,000 on your existing home loan, then the house must sell for a minimum of $126,000. There are three steps that must be taken in order to successfully sell your home quickly. How to Sell Your House Quickly When Facing Foreclosure By LaTonya S. Johnson    If you are currently in foreclosure, strongly consider selling your property as a backup plan.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Million Dollar Homes in Foreclosure
  
  Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not just run-down homes in poor neighborhoods that are vulnerable to foreclosure. RealtyTrac’s national foreclosure database featured a number of million-dollar homes in some stage of foreclosure last month, including the homes pictured below. For home buyers at the more expensive end of the real estate market, these types of properties can represent good investment opportunities. (Note: U.S. foreclosures are up from last year as higher interest rates force more homeowners into default and softening housing prices give defaulted
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Home Price Indices Reporting Record Lows
  
  Home prices on existing single-family homes continued to sink further into the abyss nationally during the first quarter of 2008, according to two leading industry indicators. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) reported last week that prices fell 1.7 ldquo;These substantial home price declines bring positive and negative news,” said OFHEO Director James B. percent for the quarter, the largest quarterly price decline on record, based solely on purchase-only transactions (without refinancings). On a year-over-year basis the OFHEO reports that
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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