All Posts Tagged With: "homebuyer"
US home values fall $9 trillion since 2006, says Zillow
American real estate, a traditional bastion of household wealth for the middle class, has lost $9 trillion in equity since 2006 according to the real estate marketing site Zillow.com. Zillow reports that US homeowners lost $1 trillion in 2009 and it expects that losses will total $1.7 trillion in 2010. Specifically, Zillow estimates that values [...]
9Dec2010 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
1 Million First-Time Home Buyers To Owe IRS
More than a million first-time home buyers are likely to get unfriendly letters from the IRS, brief little notices from Uncle Sam which say we want our money back. A report by the Treasury Department’s Inspector General for Tax Administration shows that nearly 1.8 million taxpayers filed claims under the government’s First-time Homebuyer Tax Credit [...]
15Sep2010 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
500,000+ Grab First-Time Homebuyer Credit
More than 500,000 buyers have used the first-time homebuyer credit to purchase a home. Amazingly enough, more than 38,000 buyers have already claimed the write-off but do not qualify. Why? In most cases because they owned a home during the past three years. Figures from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration show that a [...]
24Apr2009 | Peter G. Miller | 1 comment | Continued
Uncle Sam’s $8,000 For First Time Home Buyers
The government is hoping if you don’t now own a home that you’ll make the logical choice and buy one this year. If you do, there’s an $8,000 credit from Uncle Sam available to help you out. Last year the government announced that if you were a first time buyer and bought a home that [...]
21Feb2009 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
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