Posted by admin on April 24, 2010
Home buyer Tax Credit just keeps getting better in the market as it long journey is about to end nearly. This incentive have helped increase the sales in the real estate market. Would you believe that according to NAR (National Association of Realtors), they’ve stressed out that several home buyers who have been hooked up with this kind of incentive have helped boost the sales in the existing homes during March home buying and selling? That’s true!
The presence of this tax credit have helped raise the sales of existing homes including single-family homes, town homes,condos and other real estate properties.
Statistics came out that sales rocketed up 6.8 percent to seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.35 million units in March when compared to February’s sales of only 5.01 million.
The yearly existing home sales also drifted up 16.1 percent which was higher compared last March 2009 only having 4.61 million units in the market.
The positive effect of this incentive for both home buyers and sellers will help get good numbers in the coming months as spring season is in the air.
Read more Via Realtor.org Daily Real Estate News (Home Sales Rise on Tax Credit, Favorable Market)
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Posted by admin on March 18, 2010
The number of real estate properties in the market are getting bigger and bigger each month. New and old listings are added up everyday as these properties for sale are getting higher or lower by price on the list depending on the status of a certain house.
Also, short sales are getting huge in numbers as these properties are more safe than foreclosure. In Sandy Utah Homes, current property listings for the month of March is getting close to 602 total listed properties. About 115 properties are possible for short sales. That is 39.93% out of total listed properties in Sandy Ut Homes.
With the ongoing tax credit phenomena, home buyers are getting interest from this privilege in purchasing a particular property. The increase of short sale properties will motivate more home buyers to flood in the real estate market.
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Posted by admin on March 13, 2010
Equity loans! That’s the primary move of banks lately. But how much will be the budget for it?
Well, Equity loans are back again in the market!
Lately, the budget for equity loans are climbing up by billion dollars over next year and that is according to Moody’s Economy.com. Several lenders will have a budget of around $36 billion for new home equity loans in the market as a remedy for maintaining the process, internal operations and the like in the real estate arena to be specific.
These equity loans will focus more on certain improvements of homes and other necessities in the real estate business. Next year’s budget is little higher than what had made 2 years ago with a $34 billion equity loans.
Chief economist at Freddie Mac, Frank Nothaft, talks out that the only difference of the budget is the way it will be spent focusing on home improvements. He also added, “Consumers are better at managing their own personal balance sheet as a result of the difficult recession w went through.”
Via Realtors.com Daily Real Estate News
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Posted by admin on March 4, 2010
At first when I saw the market condition of Sandy Ut Homes, I was stricken by the numbers shown in the MLS home sale standing. Home sale numbers during February was just nearly the same in January 2010. Considering the increase, it showed off that there was only one more home sold out in the market last month after January.
This statistics shows a slow home selling and buying curve that occurred in Sandy Utah Homes. As the number remains stable last month, there were only 54 homes sold out in the market while there were 53 homes released and sold out during January of the same year. A year over year change in the number of sold homes last month went down to 18.18 percent.
Last month, the median sold price drifted down to $231,875 from January’s median price of $251,000 and having an original list price of $248,400 dropped from previous month’s $279,000 original list price.
Ending the first quarter of the year, many Realtors still hope for another round of home selling and buying this month. As the tax credit will expire on the 30th of April, many home buyers are still grabbing the opportunity to avail the credit law and that will add to the numbers in the real estate market. Houses for Sale in Utah will flood the market in the coming months as there will be a massive construction of new homes this year.
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Posted by admin on February 20, 2010
Many have said that this year will be a great year for real estate market as first time home buyers will parade in the arena of home buying. As the year for Chinese calendar started to welcome the year of the Metal Tiger, the real estate market is expecting a higher number of home buyers that will flood the market grounds.
Several economists said that real estate business will bloom swiftly as the number of buyers will increase compared last year. That would be possible because of the on going expanded and extended tax credit will help these home buyers purchase a house with a little slash in the price of homes they will buy.
According to the chief economist at Moody’s Economy.com, Mark Zandi, predicted that there will be around 1.84 million homes sold to first-time home buyers in 2010 compared last year. Last year data showed that there were only 1.73 millions homes sold to these specific home buyers in the field of real estate market.
Realtors have been preparing themselves to go through with the listings of houses and making a move to analyze the market in judging the pricing and other key factors that may help uplift the status of real estate in the market this year. According to Ray Boss Jr., a practitioner with RE/MAX Realty Group located in Maryland, those real estate professionals still have an ample time to keep track of those house listings and evaluate market trends and home pricing and the like. He added that, “I would want someone who is going to look out for my interests first and foremost,” “Someone who knows the contracts, who has experience negotiating, and who can walk me through the entire process smoothly — step by step — and make sure I get the house that’s right for me.”
Read more via Realtor.org Daily Real Estate News
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Posted by admin on February 13, 2010
Sandy Utah Homes is always aware of its market condition and the latest trends in real estate. Recently, a report was released by Realty Trac regarding a decrease in the foreclosure rates which fell down 10 percent in the 1st month of the year compared a month ago.
Although there was a monthly decrease in terms of foreclosure rates yet the year over year change drifted up 15 percent this year according to Realty Trac report.
Numerous states in the U.S. such as Nevada , Arizona, California, Florida, Utah, Idaho, Michigan, Illinois, Oregon, and Georgia belonged to the top ten with high foreclosure rates in the real estate market.
Around 60 percent of the national total of foreclosure rates was accounted to six states namely California, Florida, Arizona, Illinois and Michigan and other states not mentioned.
“January foreclosure numbers are exhibiting a pattern very similar to a year ago: a double-digit percentage jump in December foreclosure activity followed by a 10 percent drop in January, then a surge in foreclosures over the next few months,” said by RealtyTrac’s CEO James Saccacio in a report released last week.
As trends gets better in the real estate market, more and more homes will be constructed this year and the demands and supply is expected to rise by 2010. Check out Sandy Utah Foreclosures and Sandy Utah Short Sales as expected to be outnumbering in the real estate market.
via Realtor.org Daily Real Estate News
Posted by admin on February 6, 2010
When I was surfing the net earlier this morning, suddenly the news came out which talks about mortgage increase in some of the year fixed loans. It was on a 30-year fixed loan wherein the increase reached more than 5 percent compared to other fixed loan years.
It fell on the first week of February when a sudden increase in the mortgage rates rocketed up 5 percent up for a 30-year long term fixed loan instantly. Based from Freddie Mac’s statistics, a 30-year fixed loan has a mortgage rate bouncing off to 5.01 percent from last week’s average mortgage rate of 4.98 percent.
Other lower mortgage year’s rates also increase from its previous mortgage rates in the market.
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Via Realtor.org (Daily Real Estate News- Mortgage Rates Top 5%)
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Posted by admin on January 23, 2010
Surprisingly, the expanded tax credit has so far gone through the miles as many people already taken the advantage of the helpful law for buying homes. But what are the rules and guidelines for those who want to avail the said buyer tax credit? Are we qualify for it or what are the things that we need to consider in order to savor the goodness of the tax credit law?
Here some important things that we need to consider upon using it validly and correctly:
- For homeowner, he or she must have occupied the same principal residence or period of residency for about five of the last eight years consecutively in order to qualify for the moving up tax credit.
- Based from their 2009 or 2010 tax return, buyers can elect to claim the credit either last year’s income tax return or this year which best fit for them.
- A credit in 2009 wherein the buyers claimed for it can’t file electronically due to the Internal Revenue Service hasn’t put the required forms on line. They can wait for a refund about 3 or 4 months.
- A person can’t avail the tax credit if he or she wants to purchase a home from a close relative including a parent, spouse, child grandparents or grandchildren and the like.
- Mobile home or travel trailer which is fixed to land owned or leased by the home owner is preferred but in some cases if a mobile home or travel trailer that is actually mobile is not qualified for the inclusion of tax credit.
- If you have not owed any federal income tax or no taxable income at all, then you can qualify for the said tax credit provided that you need to file a tax return in order to claim it.
Those qualifications written above will help people understand if they’re really qualified or if they can avail the said tax credit preferably. Through this, their knowledge will be broaden about the ongoing tax credit for home buyer wherein they can avoid misunderstanding and misleading.
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