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September home sales to be released Wednesday

Metrolist, the Realtor group which tracks Denver-area home sales data,  is scheduled to release its September report on Wednesday. It will be interesting to see what impact the $8,000 tax credit for qualified first-time home buyers will have on sales activity last month. Watch InsideRealEstateNews.com for details.

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Title industry can handle tax-credit buying surge

Last week, I blogged that first-time home buyers should place homes under contract sooner, rather than later, if they want to take advantage of the $8,000 federal tax credit that expires at the end of November.

Mortgage lenders and real estate brokers are concerned that the home closing process could take as long as 45 [...]

Clock ticking on $8,000 tax credit

First-time home buyers should plan for 45 days to close their homes by Nov. [...]

Rental housing market better off with tax credit expiring

The home building industry, Realtors and first-time home buyers have a lot to gain if the $8,000 tax credit available to qualified home purchasers is extended beyond this year.

Indeed, Margaret Jackson had an article in today’s Denver Post about builders lobbying Congress to extend the tax credit.

But there is one group that isn’t so enamored [...]

Renters taking advantage of $8,000 tax credit

Increasingly, people who have been renting homes in the Denver area are leaving to buy homes to and take advantage of the $8,000 tax-credit available to qualified first home buyers this year,  experts told InsideRealEstateNews.com.

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