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FHA: Wealthy Buyers Qualifying For Guaranteed Mortgages, Despite Depleting Reserves

nytimes.com | DAVID STREITFELD | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgage Crisis, Federal Housing Administration, Mortgage Bankers Association, Home Buyers, Defaults, First-Time-Home-Buyer-Tax-Credit, Housing Crisis, Home Buyer Credit, Business News

The Internal Revenue Service is giving tax rebates to first-time buyers, and soon to move-up buyers, in a program beset by accusations of fraud. And t...

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Targeting the Scattershot Home Buying Tax Credit

David M. Abromowitz | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Home Buyers, Homeowners, Foreclosure, First-Time Homebuyers Credit, Tax Credit, Home Sales, Business News
David M. Abromowitz

Four out of five buyers were handed $8,000 by other taxpayers for a purchase they would have made anyway. The Obama administration could do better by targeting the credit to people who need it.

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Seven New Rules For The First-Time Home Buyer

New York Times | RON LIEBER | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgages, Home Buyers, Real Estate, Houses, Business News

So as the one-year anniversary arrives of our near financial collapse, it's a good time to blow up a long-standing but underexamined maxim of real est...

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Best Cities For Home Sellers

Forbes | Matt Woolsey | Posted 04.16.2008 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Home Buyers, New York Real Estate, Housing Slump, Housing Market, New Contruction, Home Sellers, Business News

Though luxury home buyers took a big bite out of the Big Apple last year--properties in the Plaza Hotel and condos along Central Park West sold for re...

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Bargain Hunters May Toss A Lifeline To Housing Market

Reuters | Lynn Adler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Home Buyers, Housing Market, Housing Crisis, Subprime Mortgages, Subprime, Bargain Hunters, Economy, Business News

The distressed housing market should get a lift this spring as bargain prices lure prospective buyers out of hibernation, but tighter lending means no...

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