Obama signed the First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit today. Congress both extended and expanded the First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit program Thursday. The up-to-$8000 tax credit’s expiration date has been pushed forward to spring, requiring homebuyers to be under contract by April 30, 2010, and to be...

Guess Who’s Ditching Their Mortgages A study of 24 million credit files by national credit bureau Experian and consulting company Oliver Wyman has shown that home owners with high credit scores are 50 percent more likely to deliberately walk away from a mortgage than lower-scoring borrowers. The...

The government’s First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit program expires November 30, 2009 — a scant 60 days from today. Considering it can take up to 60 days to close on a home, first-time buyers have 2 weeks at most to find a home. Buyers not under contract by October 15 have little chance of...

As reported by the National Association of REALTORS®, the number of Existing Home Sales dipped last month, ending the metric’s 5-month winning streak. Newspaper headlines today are overwhelmingly negative on housing. You’d almost believe this year’s housing recovery had ended. That’s hardly...

General Points to Consider – Buyer and Seller The expiration date of the tax credit is November 30, 2009. Close December 1, as of now, and any qualifying buyer will not receive the tax credit. With the 30th falling on the Monday following Thanksgiving, where possible work towards a closing date of...

Sold properties are on the rise - and so is the average price!  Does this mean the worst is behind us and the bottom has come and gone? Leave a comment!

ACTIVE (for sale) listings are down, SOLDS are up - that spells a correction in inventory level and a fairer supply vs. demand market. Most telling is this chart that shows our extreme buyers market in 2007 with 13 months of inventory on hand: AKA lots of homes to choose from. According to this chart...

Foreclosure-tracker RealtyTrac reports that the number of foreclosures nationwide rose 7 percent on a month-to-month basis last month. However, 3 states dominated the foreclosure list, tallying more foreclosures between them than the rest of the country combined. California : 30.0 percent Florida :...

It’s already May, and time for another Mortgage Rate Watch May 2009 – May 2009 Mortgage Forecast Loans closed in May will have first payment dates of July 2009. If April was a harbinger of things to come for May, Homeowners and Homebuyers will be the proud recipients of stable LOW Historic Mortgage...

The days of rock-bottom housing prices may be reaching an end. According to the National Association of REALTORS, the number of Existing Home Sales fell by a modest 140,000 units last month. It’s the fifth straight month in which home sales straddled the 4.5 million mark. The national housing inventory...