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Homes for Sale News Archive 06-Feb-2009

  • Valley broker: Tax credit should help housing market (KTAR 92.3 Phoenix)

    A proposal to give a federal tax credit to new home buyers could help stimulate the housing market, says Mesa real estate broker Jay Thompson. The U.S. Senate has passed the measure, it now goes to the House.


  • New, Affordable Vacation Homes are Available at the Four Seasons at Camelback (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

    The community at the Four Seasons at Camelback currently has vacation homes for sale on Camelback Mountain in the Poconos Mountains. These homes feature a variety of amenities and cater to those interested in year round recreation, from skiing vacations, to golfing vacations, to hiking vacations.


  • Foreclosure bill could cut homes' taxable value (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

    Every month in metro Atlanta, lenders foreclose on thousands of home mortgages and unload hundreds of former foreclosed homes at fire sale prices. Those numbers, traditionally, have been ignored by local assessors as they set yearly tax values. Instead, they've relied on sales at retail prices or "fair market" value. During a housing market downturn, that practice can leave wide gaps between ...


  • Freddie Mac Says 30-Year Fixed Mortgage Rate Gained This Week (Bloomberg)

    Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The average U.S. rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage rose this week, thwarting Federal Reserve efforts to cut borrowing costs, on investor concern the government will increase spending.


  • Stimulus May Include for Home Buyer Help (FOX 13 Memphis)

    The price tag of the proposed economic stimulus package keeps growing, now it's up to nearly one trillion dollars. But a new addition might bring a way to stimulate the real estate market by providing a tax break for home buyers. This home buyer's tax break added an additional $19 billion to the cost of the stimulus package.


  • 13-county home sales dropped 14% in 2008 (The Indianapolis Star)

    INDIANAPOLIS Sales of existing homes in the 13-county Indianapolis area totaled 25,468 last year, down 14 percent from 2007. The median sale price fell 4 percent, compared with a 9.3 percent drop nationally, the Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of Realtors said Monday. In its year-end wrap-up of home sales, MIBOR also said the area has an eight-month inventory of homes for sale, about the same ...


  • Report: 19 million U.S. houses empty at end of 2008 (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

    A record 19 million U.S. houses stood empty at the end of 2008 as banks seized homes faster than they could sell them and prices continued to fall. The fourth quarter?s all-time high was 6.7 percent above a year ago when 17.8 million properties were vacant, the U.S. Census Bureau said in a report today. The vacancy rate, the share of empty homes for sale, rose to 2.9 percent in the last quarter, ...


  • U.S. home sales tumble (National Post)

    Fear, stringent mortgage rules cited for new climate that saw home sales drop to lowest rate since 1963


  • The Billings Outpost Classifieds (The Billings Outpost)

    BROADWATER MERCANTILE ANTIQUES. NOW BUYING ANTIQUES like old postcards, Red Wing stoneware, older costume jewelry, painted label pop and milk bottles, military items like patches, pins, and any advertising especially from Billings and Montana; MANY NEW ITEMS in stock.


  • Market 'not all doom and gloom' (BBC News)

    House sales have dropped in the Highlands, but the area's solicitors property centre says things are not all bad.


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