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• Home Buying: How Does Your Credit Score Rate? Posted By: Mike…

  
  Fisher Funding — Authority: 157
  Buying a home is something most people dream of being able to do at some point in their life. All you have to do is save enough money for a down payment and you’re in. Right? Maybe not. If your credit rating is not up to snuff, the road to your dream may be a little bumpy, but not impossible to overcome Continue ...
  12 hours ago

• Regional Spotlight – Florida’s Existing Home, Condo Sales Rise in 3Q 2009

  
  RISMedia — Authority: 596
  RISMEDIA, November 14, 2009—Sales of existing single-family homes in Florida rose 33% in the third quarter 2009 compared to the same period a year earlier, according to the latest housing statistics from Florida Realtors®. A total of 44,345 existing homes sold statewide in 3Q 2009; during the same period the year ...
  17 hours ago

• Report: Entry-level home buyers make up biggest share of market ever

  
  L.A. Land — Authority: 566
  First-time buyers made up a bigger share of the housing market in 2009 than any other year on record, according to a study released this afternoon . The number of first-time home buyers rose to 47% of all home sales from 41% of transactions in last year’s study, and was the highest on record dating back to 1981, ...
  20 hours ago

• All About Benefits of Getting a New Home

  
  The Blog Street Journal — Authority: 147
  One of the very first things to consider when you buy a home is that you will be granted many economic benefits from your investment. If you choose to be a homeowner you will have to your advantage many tax incentives, like property tax and mortgage interest deductions. Being a first time home buyer you [...]
  1 day ago

• First time home buyer tip #5

  
  Skinner Properties & Investments, Inc. Broomfield, Westminster, Northglenn and Thornton CO Real Estate — Authority: 125
  Homes aren’t free! I know, I say this a lot and people always look at me strangely. Actually they look at me strangely a lot , but that’s beside the point here. I say this because I’ve had more than one contract fall through on a home that I was selling because the first time buyers had no idea that they’d ...
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• Baltimore’s million-dollar homes are selling, too

  
  Home Buying and Home Selling Tips — Authority: 147
  Maybe the toughest job in today’s real estate market is selling monster luxury homes, many of which were built only because of the financing bubble and people scoring mortgages they didn’t deserve to buy houses they couldn’t afford. Many million-dollar homes are in bankers’ inventories, having been foreclosed ...
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• Tax credit sparks potential homebuyers’ questions

  
  Home Buying and Home Selling Tips — Authority: 147
  A s soon as Congress passed legislation to expand the $8,000 first-time homebuyer credit, readers started sending in questions about whether they would qualify under the new rules. The legislation, signed into law last week, gives people more time to purchase a house and allows even current homeowners to receive a ...
  1 day ago

• Home-buying break fits state widely

  
  Home Buying and Home Selling Tips — Authority: 147
  More than 40 percent of Arkansas homeowners are eligible for a $6,500 federal tax credit if they sell their home and buy another one by June 30, according to an analysis of census numbers. President Barack Obama signed a bill last week to extend an $8,000 tax credit to first-time homebuyers and provide a $6,500 ...
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• With home-buying tax credit extended, it’s a good time to move up

  
  Home Buying and Home Selling Tips — Authority: 147
  George and Florence Sutton bought what they thought would be their starter home in 1990. Nearly 20 years later, they’re finally moving up. Turns out it’s a good time to do so, with an $8,000 home buyer tax credit, low interest rates and a slew of inventory to pick from. “Now is an excellent time to be looking ...
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• Credit Score Scale: How To Fix My Credit Report Today

  
  Very Good Search Info Center — Authority: 164
  The economy is in such a state that everyone is now forced to stretch their resources just to survive. The hard time is also responsible for the majority of people seeing a drastic drop in their credit scores. The most unfortunate part of the fall in FICO scores is the fact that now is the best time to invest.
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• Home prices may be bottoming out

  
  Home Buying and Home Selling Tips — Authority: 147
  The bleeding in the housing market seems to be stanched, at least temporarily, according to home price data released on Tuesday. Most U.S. cities saw gains in the median price of single-family homes sold during the three months ended Sept. 30, according to the National Association of Realtors’ quarterly report on ...
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• Slumlord lawsuit and house buying fun. Superstitious?

  
  Harvest of Daily Life — Authority: 122
  So, do you remember all the slumlord fun we had with mold and flooding? Need a refresher:The final chapter of the crappy evansville landlord drama.The Renters and the Slumlords: The drama comes to a close (and other updates).Instead of The Bold and the Beautiful it is The Renters and the... This is just a snippet of ...
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• First time home buyer tip #4

  
  Skinner Properties & Investments, Inc. Broomfield, Westminster, Northglenn and Thornton CO Real Estate — Authority: 125
  This post is a follow up to my other posts on the first time home buyer tax credit in order to clarify some details: The credit is actually for up to 10% of the home’s price. In the north metro Denver area however you could barely buy a mobile home (that’s been purged and considered real estate) for less than ...
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• Foreclosure Activity Slows for Third Straight Month

  
  RISMedia — Authority: 596
  RISMEDIA, November 12, 2009—RealtyTrac one of the leading online marketplaces for foreclosure properties, released its October 2009 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report,  which shows foreclosure filings—default notices, scheduled foreclosure auctions and bank repossessions—were reported on 332,292 U.S. properties ...
  2 days ago

• Mortgage lender warns of housing bubble

  
  TheStar.com - Travel — Authority: 854
  Low interest rates have caused some Canadians to act "irrationally" in the housing market, potentially taking on too much debt that could lead to economic difficulties, says the CEO of ING Direct Canada.
  2 days ago

• Attack of the Home Buyers’ Tax Credit

  
  Home Buying and Home Selling Tips — Authority: 147
  According to Case-Shiller data, housing prices have been rising since May, yet Congress has just extended and expanded last year’s home buyers’ tax credit. They’ve made the program more regressive by upping the income limit for families from $150,000 to $225,000. Even more problematically, the new, but ...
  2 days ago

• Best selling Austin neighborhoods

  
  Home Buying and Home Selling Tips — Authority: 147
  Last week the President signed into law a measure to extend the $8,000 first time home buyers tax credit through April 30, 2010. It was scheduled to expire at the end of this month. He also extended the new home buyer tax incentives to people who have owned a home for at least five years. Meaning if you’re an ...
  2 days ago

• Las Vegas Home Prices Decline 26.8 Percent, Despite Uptick in Sales

  
  Home Buying and Home Selling Tips — Authority: 147
  The number of homes sold last month was up and so was the median selling price of those homes. But overall, while sales are up significantly from a year ago, prices are down. The Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors has released its October report. Single-family home sales were up 5.3 percent. There were 3,535 ...
  2 days ago

• Media company founder selling Beverly Hills home for $12.75M

  
  Home Buying and Home Selling Tips — Authority: 147
  Andrew Heyward has listed for sale a six-bedroom, nine-bath home at 929 Foothill Road in Beverly Hills for $12.75 million. Heyward bought the property for $9.75 million in May 2006. The 7,624-square-foot house was built in 1957 in North Beverly Hills neighborhood. Kurt Rappaport of Westside Estate Agency is the ...
  2 days ago

• A Complete Guide to the Extended and Expanded Homebuyer Tax Credit

  
  California Public Employee & Teacher Resources — Authority: 141
  If you missed the live Webinar – “A Compete Guide to the Extended and Expanded Homebuyer Tax Credit”, no worries – Here’s everything you need to know in one place. Due to technical difficulties, I was unable to record the webinar, but here’s the power point presentation – Feel free to drop me a line if ...
  3 days ago

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