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There is growing fear among LI lenders and realtors that the influx of mortgages spurred by tax credits for first-time and repeat home buyers will cease when the credits expire at the end of the month. Many credit the program, which offers first-time homeowners up to $8,000 and repeat purchasers up to $6,500, with propping up a flagging real estate market at a time when home prices have been dropping.
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It is old news, today, to talk about a slow housing market. In an attempt to provide a boost to the housing market and all its related services and industries, and to slow the number of defaults on existing mortgages, Congress passed legislation offering a federal income tax credit as a stimulus to home purchase. The First-Time Homebuyer Credit (now expanded beyond first-time buyers) expired on Apr 30, 2010. Congress chose to extend the credit along with making other changes under the 2009 Worker, Home Ownership and Business Assistance Act (WHOBA), signed into law on Nov 6, 2009. Under the new law, Congress amended Section 36 of the Internal Revenue Code with changes relating to qualifying for the credit, extension of the time frame allowed for home purchase, and repayment of the credit...
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Katie Markert couldn't imagine a better birthday present. On Feb. 20, two days before she turned 29, Markert and her fiance, Chris Orlando, closed on their first house -- a Cape Cod on Milwaukee's south side. Sweetening the gift are a first-time buyer incentive and a low- interest mortgage. Markert and Orlando purchased their home for $112,000, or 10% less than its assessed value. Locked in at a 5% interest rate, Markert said their mortgage payment is only $65 more per month than she paid to rent. But the icing on the cake is the $8,000 first-time home buyer federal tax credit the couple will be able to apply next year.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - In good news for home buyers, rates on 30-year mortgages fell below 6 percent last week for the first time in three months, although economists said they do not expect rates to stay there for long. Freddie Mac said Thursday in its weekly nationwide survey that rates on 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages fell to 5.98 percent, down from 6 percent the previous week. The rate was the lowest since the last time the 30-year mortgage was below 6 percent on April 22, when rates averaged 5.94 percent.
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NEW YORK - The bond market turned upside down this week in a move that may end up costing many people more to buy a home. The phenomenon is called an inverted yield curve - when short- term interest rates rise above long-term rates - and it hasn't happened for five years. What it could mean is increased monthly costs for borrowers using adjustable-rate mortgages, whose popularity, especially among first-time home buyers, has helped fuel the real estate boom.
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...-to-value (LTV) ratios, and securitized mortgages has made the current housing-related risk greater ...At first, there were fundamental reasons for home prices to... of rising prices may have lulled both buyers and lenders into a false sense of security about t...At the time, this was considered innovative. In retrospect, it...
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... rates as low as 3.5 percent to qualified first-time homebuyers. The program is part of a national... New Hampshire residents who are first-time buyers or have not owned a home in the past three years. ... this year, enough to support 2,000 mortgages for first-time buyers. . "These low rates will all...
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...Inside Mortgage Finance reported that first-quarter originations were down by 35 percent; a dr...--and one of the last good years for first-time homebuyers. . As this column goes to press, there ... lower loan limits on jumbo conforming mortgages--hardly good news to high-cost markets like New Yo... With the exception of cash investors, most buyers need mortgages. Getting one is already difficult a...
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...And to compound the problem, many mortgages are packaged into securities and sold to investors.... First, we've launched a new initiative at the Federal Ho...At the same time, HUD and the federal banking regulators are taking... finance new mortgages for first-time home buyers. My administration has proposed allowing cities an...
