For certain members of the military, and for certain federal employees, there’s just 2 months remaining to get use the federal home buyer tax credit.
For certain members of the military, and for certain federal employees, there’s just 2 months remaining to get use the federal home buyer tax credit.
Contrary to what you may have read (or heard), the federal home buyer tax credit has not been extended past June 30, 2010. At least not yet.
Today’s Florida home buyers should consider making offer sooner rather than later. Looking at the data, it appears the best time to have found a “deal” on a Florida home may have been in February.
The sales of newly-built homes soared in March. Even more than what was expected. But the news may not be as glowing as what the media is telling us.
A Housing Start is a new home on which construction has started and, over the last 6 months, home builders are averaging one half-million starts per month. This marks the highest 6-month average since 2008 and a reading one-fifth percent better from 12 months ago. Revisions to prior data have all been higher, too.
If you’re under contract for a Lakeland home and plan to close in May, consider a Lakeland mortgage closing date other than Friday May 28, 2010.
If your Lakeland mortgage pre-qualification and/or pre-approval letter is more than 8 weeks old, it would be prudent to have your lender “re-pre-approve” you.
Lakeland Mortgage – There’s just 30 days remaining for first-time home buyers to use the federal home buyer tax credit.
As expected, Existing Home Sales fell in February, slipping 30,000 units versus January’s numbers. It’s the 4th straight month in which Existing Home Sales were lower, month-over-month. But it may not last long.
Single-family Housing Starts idled last month, dropping just 3,000 units from the month prior, or 0.2%. According to the Commerce Department’s report, February marked the 8th straight month in which Housing Starts straddled the half-million marker, dating back to June 2009.