Sentences with phrase «home buyers tax credit ends»

The $ 8,000 first time home buyers tax credit ends November 30.

With the home buyer tax credit ended and the housing market now largely on its own, how can we expect the real estate market to perform?

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This is a by - product of high unemployment rates, the remaining toxic loans from 2005, 2006 and 2007 which have not yet been refinanced or foreclosed and the end of the first - time home buyer tax credit.

The federal tax credit for home buyers has come to an end.

Sales of existing homes in January dropped 7.2 percent from 5.44 million * in December 2009 to 5.05 million, continuing to ease after the ramp - up in November as households acted on the belief the home buyer tax credit was ending.

RISMEDIA, July 30, 2010 --(MCT)-- Government cash didn't help John Foley and Cindy Case sell their Minneapolis house before the federal home buyer's tax credit expired at the end of April, so the couple decided to take matters into their own hands.

Perhaps most important is that the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index for March increased more than 4 percent, reaching its highest level since the end of the home buyer tax credit perHome Sales Index for March increased more than 4 percent, reaching its highest level since the end of the home buyer tax credit perhome buyer tax credit period.

«Some new - home sales that would have happened this March were likely pulled forward as a result of exceedingly good weather conditions across much of the country in February, when we recorded the quickest sales pace since the end of the homebuyer tax credit,» notes Barry Rutenberg, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and a home builder from Gainesville, Fla. «The bottom line is that builders in many markets are reporting more interest among prospective buyers, with the main sticking points for sales right now being access to credit for builders and buyers, and problems with obtaining accurate appraisals.&rahome sales that would have happened this March were likely pulled forward as a result of exceedingly good weather conditions across much of the country in February, when we recorded the quickest sales pace since the end of the homebuyer tax credit,» notes Barry Rutenberg, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and a home builder from Gainesville, Fla. «The bottom line is that builders in many markets are reporting more interest among prospective buyers, with the main sticking points for sales right now being access to credit for builders and buyers, and problems with obtaining accurate appraisals.&raHome Builders (NAHB) and a home builder from Gainesville, Fla. «The bottom line is that builders in many markets are reporting more interest among prospective buyers, with the main sticking points for sales right now being access to credit for builders and buyers, and problems with obtaining accurate appraisals.&rahome builder from Gainesville, Fla. «The bottom line is that builders in many markets are reporting more interest among prospective buyers, with the main sticking points for sales right now being access to credit for builders and buyers, and problems with obtaining accurate appraisals.»

Thanks to solid gains in the lower end of the housing market, the first - time home buyer tax credit, and the rebounding stock market, lenders in mid — 2009 began cautiously lending money beyond the safe Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and FHA loans on which they relied for income during the credit crunch.

The worries about the Fed pulling back support for housing are compounded by the end of up to $ 8,000 in tax credits for home buyers.

Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, argues that the Fed's program and tax credit for home buyers «ended the free fall in home prices.»

With the end of the home buyer tax credits in mid-2010, home value declines accelerated toward the end of the year.

After the Federal home buyer tax credit expired at the end of April 2010, sales slowed throughout the country in summer and fall 2010 (ii)-- even though mortgage rates remained low, and dropped below 4 percent in the fall.