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https://www.thinkbigworksmall.com/public/showArchiveVideo/1/4909    Our Floundering real estate recovery has a deadly new threat.  As if the economic crisis and the woes of the financial and mortgage lending industries hadn't already taken enough prisoners, now the government imposed regulation ...

Consumers have become more concerned about their credit scores these days, especially when a better score can result in lower credit interest rates and whether you can get approval at all on home loans. With this in mind, many consumers are more aware of their credit and, unfortunately in the pro...

 Print Article RISMEDIA, June 1, 2009-RE/MAX Monthly Housing Report, a survey of 55 metro areas across the country found that April sales of residential properties were up an average of 6.3% from March, and up 4.7% from April, 2008. The report shows that for the last six months home prices have ...

In his speech at the National Association of REALTORS® Housing Summit on May 12, 2009, US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan announced a program that allows borrowers to use the first-time homebuyer tax credit for a down payment or closing costs on a FHA-ins...

 News reports that the federal government is backing away from its plan to permit eligible borrowers to monetize the first-time homebuyer tax credit are off the mark, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says. "The technical details are still being finalized and...

Market for International Real Estate Services Some of the components of demand for international real estate services include the following: relocations into and out of the U.S. by both domestic and foreign transnational companies; U.S. retiree purchases overseas; immigrant home purchase inflows ...

And the latest development on the First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit, announced Tuesday at the mid-year NAR meetings in Washington, D.C., is the ability for the buyer to access the credit at closing as downpayment funds. Shaun Donovan, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Developmen...

What Qualifies as a Purchase? Any home purchased by an eligible taxpayer as their personal residence and located in the United States qualifies for the credit.  For this purpose, a home in a U.S. territory is not considered located in the United States. Thus, ownership of such a home would not di...

In the several weeks that Realtors have been dealing with the new tax credit that recently was approved by Congress, a number of questions have arisen quite naturally as to special circumstances with buyers and their unique situations.  These questions have been posed to the IRS for answers and t...

This is a reminder to all of our landlord investor friends out their that today tis the deadline for all rental properties to be registered with the City of Raleigh.  The information below is reprinted from the www.raleighnc.gov website. Rental Dwelling Registration   Beginning March 1, 2009, al...