Posts with tag federal tax credit

Pending Home Sales Rise: The Tax Credit Effect?

Potential homebuyers rushed to sign contracts in March, pushing the Pending Home Sales Index to its highest level since last fall, according to the latest from the National Association of Realtors. We expected that -- the surge in pending home sales is part of a mini housing boom created by a massive federal program --... Continue Reading »

Is Miami-Dade Housing Sale Boom All Hype?

Educated and informed consumers know that the mixed-message bag of information on nutrition is to be taken with ... a grain of salt (pun intended). Seems like each day brings a new finding about what is and isn't good for us. Well, move over nutrition and make room for Miami-Dade's housing market where the constant flow of... Continue Reading »

Home Tax Credit: All Smoke and Mirrors?

The conventional wisdom has it that the soon-to-expire government tax credit for home purchases was a success. After all, it drove people back into the real estate market and helped to ignite a fire under a still-nascent recovery. But suppose the conventional wisdom is wrong? Suppose it was all really smoke and mirrors?... Continue Reading »

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