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Home Buyer Tax Credit

Existing Homes Sales Sank 5.1 Percent In June

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Home Buyer Tax Credit, Thomson Reuters, National Association of Realtors, Congress, Freddie Mac, Credit Suisse, Home Sales, Real Estate, Corelogic, Business News

WASHINGTON — Sales of previously occupied homes fell in June and are expected to keep sinking, indicating that the housing market's troubles are...

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Bailed Out Homebuilders Collected Fat Paychecks - While Their Companies Tanked

Reuters | Helen Chernikoff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Tarp, Homebuilders, D.R. Horton, Home Buyer Tax Credit, Executive Pay, Bailout, Equilar, Executive Compesation, Real Estate, Business News

Horton sold just 16,703 homes in 2009. Since the depths of the downturn in 2007, the company has lost more than $3.9 billion and laid off 53 percent o...

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Home Buyer Tax Credit Likely To Cost Taxpayers $100K Per Home: Calculated Risk

calculatedriskblog.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Home Buyer Tax Credit, Housing Market, Cato Institute, First-Time-Home-Buyer-Tax-Credit, Pending-Home-Sales, Mark Calabria, Housing Crisis, Brookings Institution, Center for American Progress, Andrew Jakabovics, Ted Gayer, Mortgage Crisis, Business News

Recent indications that demand for housing is lagging, Calculated Risk writes, are "no surprise and suggests that the extension and expansion of the h...

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