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Danilo Bogdanovic
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AgentGenius
Why the Extended Home Buyer Tax Credit is a Slap In the Face
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Sure, you’ve all heard by now…the first-time home buyer federal tax credit has been extended through March 30, 2010 and has also been expanded to include many existing home owners. Many are shouting, “WOO HOO!”. But I’m not. No, really..we’re serious! SIKE! For some time now, NAR and the government have been ...
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Ben Kakimoto
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The Seattle Condo Blog
October 2009 Seattle condo market update
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The Seattle condo market rebounded in October with increases in sales, number of closings and median price, likely fueled by the rush to qualify for the first time home buyers tax credit. ShareThis
Diane Tuman
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Zillow Blog
$8000 Tax Credit Extended Through
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In what has been urged as a must-have by real estate professionals and builders, the $8000 tax credit for first-time home buyers (previously due to expire Nov. 30), has been extended through April 30, 2010, according to the Associated Press. Not only has it been extended, but it has also been expanded to include more [...]
Ginger Wilcox
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Marin Real Estate Guide
Home buyer tax credit extended
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President Obama has just signed the home buyer tax credit bill. The tax credit will be extended through April 30, 2010, with a 60-day extension if a contract is in place prior to the deadline. First-time home buyers will continue to receive a tax credit of up to $8,000, while existing homeowners will receive a [...]
Jack
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Uncle Jack's Very Vintage Vegas
President To Sign Extension Of EXPANDED Homebuyer Tax Credit
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The old credit which expires November 30th has been extended, but the expansion gives the credit to people who have owned their home for 5 years or more, and are selling their current residence in order to buy a different primary residence. Just as there were more questions than answers in the first few days [...]
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$8,000 homebuyers tax credit extended
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President Obama signed an extension and expansion of the first-time homebuyers tax credit on Friday.
John Ford
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Boston Real Estate Blog
Who Qualifies for New Homebuyer Tax Credit?
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Many of you have written in with good questions about the tax credit. I’m working on finding answers, especially to one recurring question. To qualify for the $6,500 credit is it necessary to sign the purchase contract after the measure is signed into law today or can a homeowner who signed a P&S (or purchased) [...]
JON PRIOR
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Housing Wire
Obama Signs First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit Extension
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President Barack Obama signed the “Worker, Homeownership and Business Assistance Act of 2009” into law on Friday, extending the first-time homebuyer tax credit as well as certain jobless benefits at a time when the US unemployment rate has officially reached 10.2%. With the first-time homebuyer tax credit originally scheduled to expire on Dec.
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[What follows is my somewhat stream of consciousness take on today's events. This post is a beast. Interested in your thoughts. And please point out where you think I've missed the mark. More will follow.] The NAR has taken over certain technology assets of Cyberhomes from LPS (formerly known as FNRES) in order to bring its RPR [...]
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JACOB GAFFNEY
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Housing Wire
Higher Unemployment Means Many More Distressed Properties to Come
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A panel meeting today at the Safeguard Properties National Property Preservation Conference in Washington DC shifted gears to address the “unexpected” jump in unemployment rates. Unemployment in the United States now stands at 10.2%, somewhat beyond the forecast of economists. The US Conference of Mayors, a nonpartisan organization ...
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Insider Q&A knows that real estate is a local-local business and that market conditions can vary by city and even neighborhood. In that spirit, we went “micro” this week … chatting with Valerie Torelli of Torelli Realty about what’s up — what what’s not — with housing in her specialty area: Costa Mesa.
 
Mathew Padilla
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Mortgage Insider
The latest foreclosure figures from First American CoreLogic show a growing divergence in what’s happening to problematic mortgages in Orange County. The ratio of bank-owned houses and condos, known as REO, against all outstanding first mortgages declined for the 13th straight month to just 0.26% in September — the lowest in 26 months.
Patricia Butler, Dorina Manolache,Victoria Miller and Emily Schwartz have all joined the Upper St. Clair office. Kaitlyn Orstein, formerly with Prudential Preferred Realty, is in Peters.David Wroble, previously with Coldwell Banker, has joined the Uniontown office.
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Gwen Banta
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AgentGenius
Hollywood Real Estate Props and Flops- The Sequel
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Keep Your Day Job There is no end to bad taste. Last week after recounting some of the wacky decorating schemes I have witnessed during my time warp in Los Angeles, I received many comments from others who have witnessed “decorating” madness and mayhem in their towns as well. Here are a few more to ponder: The mask like the one in The Texas ...
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Inman_News
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Today
The real estate video road show
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Episode 2: Frank Borges LLosa of FranklyRealty.com in Arlington, Va., describes video techniques and equipment, such as the use of a wide-angle video camera and a monopod.
Sellsius
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Sellsius real estate marketing blog
Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate App for Buyers
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Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate has just released an easy to use iPhone app for home buyers called Home Selection Assistant. FREE. It’s designed to let you take and organize photos of... Thanks for subscribing to our feed. If you want more, please click on the headline. Thank you!
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Custom-built in 2002, the Mediterranean has an open floor plan, formal living and dining rooms, a family room with a hand-carved wet bar, three stone fireplaces, an office and a three-car garage. A round window brings light into the top of the two-story foyer. The house has five bedrooms -- some of which Odom used as closet space -- and five ...
Deposit insurance reflects the political desire to make deposits riskless for the public. Unfortunately for the government, this desire does not reflect reality; deposits fund an industry that is inherently risky, highly leveraged, and very sensitive to economic cycles. The result? Deposit insurance helped inflate the real estate bubble by ...
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WASHINGTON, DC -- Fannie Mae (FNM/NYSE) is implementing the Deed for Lease™ Program under which qualifying homeowners facing foreclosure will be able to remain in their homes by signing a lease in connection with the voluntary transfer of the property deed back to the lender.
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DIANA GOLOBAY
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Housing Wire
BarCap Sees ‘Limited Use’ of Fannie’s Deed-for-Lease Program
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Although a new foreclosure alternative program announced Thursday by Fannie Mae (FNM: 1.04 -7.14%) presents a new step in mitigating foreclosure risk among distressed borrowers, it looks to have only a “marginal” effect on prepayments within Fannie residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), according to market commentary by ...
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RISMEDIA, November 7, 2009—The number of home listings within 27 major U.S. metropolitan areas slipped 2.82% in October 2009, compared to a month prior, and is down 28.65% compared to a year ago, according to a survey of home listings information provided by MLS in these markets conducted by national real ...
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When home is where the view is, the heart will surely follow. That's how it happened for Judith and Steve Thomas. Leaving the land of sun and celebrity, Los Angeles, for Pittsburgh's variable weather and rabid Steeler fans wasn't as difficult as some might imagine.
Holy pumpkins, it's almost time to turn the rain barrel cylinder from "collect" to "bypass." Such a simple act, yet so difficult -- another acquiescence to the cold.
A developer who had proposed a $900-million, twin-tower development across Fifth Avenue from the Westin Hotel in downtown Seattle has lost part of the property to foreclosure.
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The biggest to fall was United Commercial Bank of San Francisco, which had 63 U.S. branches as well as operations in Hong Kong and Shanghai. The bank held deposits totaling $7.5 billion.
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Guest post author: Shayna A. Home insurance has become a necessity as burglaries are on the rise and the possibility of natural disasters has increased in the last few years. These occurrences and... Thanks for subscribing to our feed. If you want more, please click on the headline. Thank you!
On this week’s show we are doing something a little different. We are dedicated the entire show to answering your questions and filling you in on some important things going on in the real estate investing industry. Being successful is not just about finding the next great deal but it also includes understanding [...]
 
Las Vegas Real Estate Agent Bill
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LAS VEGAS REAL ESTATE
‘Dancing With The Stars’ Pro Kym Johnson attended The Jersey Boys Las Vegas show November 5, 2009 at The Palazzo Resort. The celebrity celebrated a very special occasion, her mother’s birthday. Deven May, Jeff Leibow, Kym Johnson, Drew Gehling and Travis Cloer Photo by B.J. Allen Johnson was treated to VIP Vegas treatment by meeting the ...
Real estate news and views from around the globe that make you go, “Really?” DREARY: Foreclosure rate in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue area up 37% from year ago. (Seattle PI) MORE HERE! MESSY: Seattle neighbors left with dirty work from foreclosed homes (King5.com) MORE HERE! BUSTED: Foreclosure bus maps Seattle real estate bust (Seattle ...
I think it should be obvious by our lack of self-promotion, but we ended up not putting anything together for BloodhoundBlog Unchained in San Diego. I can’t speak for Brian, but I’ve been wall-to-wall with work for months, and I haven’t had time for anything else. I’ll go through the PayPal records tonight to make sure [...]
 
Jonathan Miller
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Matrix
It’s time to share my Three Cents Worth on Curbed, at the intersection of neighborhood and real estate. The surge of sales over the summer had the effect of working off a bunch of excess inventory, but it still remains about 20% above historical norms. [Click to expand and read full post on Curbed] Check out [...]
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> Three Cents Worth —
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Given today's release of the latest Hamptons/North Fork real estate market reports, we've remanded control of Miller Samuel's Jonathan Miller to Curbed Hamptons this week. His topic: a comparison of the price and absorption trends between Manhattan and the Hamptons. Throwdown! [Curbed Hamptons
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Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate Blog --
There’s a BHGRE App for that! (and it ‘s not just another real estate app)
Happy day. The first edition of our Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate iPhone app is live today (actually ,11.59pm last night.) But it’s not a ‘real estate’ app in the traditional sense, ie: pushing listings to your iPhone. It’s a ...
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And the winner of the Kodak Zi8 Digital Video Camera is…
Ryan Kuder!
His winning entry hit my email box literally seconds after I posted the last clue on Twitter.Ryan is the CMO for Koombea, co-creator of
