Phoenix Metro Area Resale And New Homes

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, time is of the essence for buyers who want to take advantage of this outstanding opportunity. ...

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 predict a long battle may lie ahead for opponents of the assistance programs, which I wrote about ...

 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 $729,750 depending on the county. Previously, they were capped at $362,790. With FHA ...

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 lenders and disposition firms have long said limits their ability to resell distressed real ...

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 is swelling. Consider Marshall and Wendy Kauffman,who recently picked up the keys to their ...

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 up in an ongoing story of housing woes, as foreclosures rise and markets tumble. Most recently, ...

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 in that price range are in foreclosure, which is more than double the rate for homes costing ...

A Chandler man slashed his price by $60,000 to sell his home so he and his wife could move to Ahwatukee. An east Mesa women accepted about $25,000 less than her original asking price even after installing carpet, remodeling a bathroom, upgrading the swimming pool and adding a $7,000 hot tub and a $2,000 shed.Their tactics weren't ...

In November of 2007 there were 3,280 resale Phoenix  Az metro homes that were sold. Which was down from 3,610 in October. And November 2006 wasn't a good comparison, but there were 5,040 resales then. Phoenix AZ Real Estate home prices continued to go down. The median price of an existing metro Phoenix AZ ...

 Click Here To Search For Phoenix Metro Area Homes: www.AzRealtyPros.com Nation’s Building News, Week of December 10th - Bush Plan Aims at Helping to Stabilize Housing Market A plan announced last week by President Bush to limit foreclosures by working with key mortgage lenders and investment firms to freeze interest rates for five ...