4 Articles match "Dec","Houses","Real Estate"

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• New Tax Law Spurs More Short Sales, Expert Says
  
  For real estate investors looking for pre-foreclosure bargains, a new federal law could unleash a torrent of short sales as struggling borrowers facing foreclosure unload their over-mortgaged homes to avoid huge tax bills on capital gains. HR 3648 , or the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act, signed by President George W. Bush on Dec. 20, helps people whose homes are in foreclosure by canceling taxes on any mortgage debt that has been forgiven by their lender. The government previously viewed the difference between the debt and the value of the home as taxable “income.”
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• When Foreclosure Is Not Politically Correct
  
  Details of the property’s history on the RealtyTrac website show that a Notice of Default was recorded against it on Dec. Real estate investors and potential home buyers who want to find the type of deal that Red Rock apparently realized at the foreclosure auction of Richardson’s property can start mining the foreclosure marketplace . But they should be very cautious in doing so given that there is no clear sign the housing market has reached Typically when you read about a politician and foreclosure, it’s in relation to some piece of legislation created to combat the recent surge in foreclosures.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Secrets of Pre-Foreclosure Investing
  
  Lucier, a Tampa Bay real estate investor and author of The Pre-Foreclosure Property Investor’s Kit . “That’s The legislation was signed into law by President Bush on Dec. real estate training company. “The McManus said the borrower got out of a painful situation, Secrets of Pre-Foreclosure Investing By Octavio Nuiry, RealtyTrac Staff Writer    One pre-foreclosure expert says a new federal law will change everything, and short sales and short payoff sales will become the new trend in the marketplace. Another claims
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Bush Foreclosure Solution Just Adds Water
  
  Bush came out with a public policy statement negating any possibility of either a homeowner, or a lender bailout, given the impact the current mortgage crisis is having on the nation’s housing economy. So it comes as a surprise of sorts that the White House issued a statement earlier this week supporting the recent passage of HR 3648 by the House of Representatives, while at the same time asking that a key provision of the bill be watered down to the point of making its implementation temporary at best. Charles Rangel (D-NY), Chairman of the House Ways and
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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