by admin | Feb 16, 2009 | News
Let’s take a look at some of the opportunities and positive indicators for the future of Florida’s real estate market. Great prices. Statewide, home prices have fallen about 20 percent in the past year. FAR statistics show the existing-home median sales price was...
by admin | Feb 12, 2009 | News
ORLANDO, Fla. – Feb. 12, 2009 – Sales of existing single-family homes in Florida rose 13 percent in fourth quarter 2008 compared to the same period a year earlier, according to the latest housing statistics from the Florida Association of Realtors® (FAR). A total of...
by admin | Feb 3, 2009 | News
These days it’s particularly tough for someone involved in a small-business real-estate venture to find funding. David Gass, founder of Business Credit Services of Las Vegas, offers these suggestions to real estate entrepreneurs in search of investors or loans. Put...
by admin | Feb 3, 2009 | News
WASHINGTON – Feb. 3, 2009 – Home buyers could see lower mortgage rates and get tax credits as part of a sweeping economic stimulus package being considered on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers are heeding the pleas of two powerful and well-heeled interest groups: real estate...
by admin | Feb 3, 2009 | News
WASHINGTON – Feb. 3, 2009 – Many moderate-income Floridians will qualify for the IRS’ Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for the first time in 2008, including some Realtors who worked through a slow year. Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink has actively...
by admin | Jan 30, 2009 | News
WASHINGTON – Jan. 30, 2009 – Freddie Mac today plans to announce a first-of-a-kind plan that lets homeowners and tenants temporarily stay in homes in foreclosure by renting them back, an effort to stop many of the sudden evictions that have come along with the housing...
