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Lenders in 2009 foreclosed on about 41,000 single-family detached homes in Maricopa County , according to a report from Arizona State University. That's more foreclosures than the Valley has seen during any previous year on record, accounting for
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The Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009 has extended the tax credit of up to $8,000 for qualified first-time home buyers purchasing a principal residence. The tax credit now applies to sales occurring on or after January 1, 2009
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The FHA relaxed the property flip regulations. This waiver is effective for all sales contracts dated on or after February 1, 2010 and will end on January 31, 2011 . Certain property may be resold and financed using FHA insured financing without waiting
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Maricopa was raised to $346,250. Pima County was raised from $271,050 back up to $316,250. Feel free to follow the link to HUD's website for all other counties in AZ. https://entp.hud.gov/idapp/html/hicost1.cfm This is welcomed news if you are looking
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Many foreclosed homes are bought by investors who can pay cash, market watchers say. That means fewer homes are going to buyers who plan to live there and hang onto the house for a while. Owner-occupied homes ultimately help an area's recovery. The
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As long as foreclosures continue to climb, home prices will fall. More than 30,000 Valley homes have been foreclosed on so far this year. That compares to fewer than 1,500 foreclosures in 2006. Now, almost all of the homes are going back to the lenders,
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Metropolitan Phoenix now leads the nation for home price declines, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price index released this morning. The Valley’s existing home price fell 30.7 percent between August 2007 and August 2008. The Valley just
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For aspiring home owners who find their goal stubbornly elusive, newly enacted legislation providing a tax credit of as much as $7,500 for first-time home buyers might just be the opportunity of a lifetime. But like so many of the good things in life,
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The housing bill that’s expected to pass in the Senate this week seeks to end the seller-funded down-payment assistance programs that allow home buyers to put no money down on a home loan backed by the Federal Housing Administration. But experts
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FHA LOAN CHANGES In February, President Bush signed a bill that made a temporary increase to both conforming and FHA loan limits. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently released the new limits, which range from $271,050 to
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Bush administration officials on Friday said they had made a major change to existing U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development regulations for mortgages endorsed by the Federal Housing Administration, lifting a key anti-flipping provision that
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During the housing boom, investors flocked to metro Phoenix and climbed onto buses that took them to the Valley's fringes, where they checked out affordable new homes they could buy low and sell high. Now, the bus tours to those edge suburbs are starting
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Affordability lures first-time buyers, investors The real-estate slump has an upside for first-time home buyers looking to spend $200,000 or less. As median-home prices continue dropping, the supply of homes for sale in the much-coveted low-end market
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Theresa and Tom Love are in a spot. They've been separated six months, as he relocated to Washington for a job while she and their two children remain in El Mirage to sell their three-bedroom home. They are just a few of the everyday people caught
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The Valley's growing foreclosure problem is hitting the upper and middle class the hardest. Metro Phoenix homes in neighborhoods where prices range from $400,000 to $450,000 now have the highest foreclosure rate. Almost 90 out of every 10,000 homes
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