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Setting Up the Next Leg Down in Housing

Loose lending standards in government-backed mortgages is setting up the next wave of defaults and sharp declines in housing prices.

Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds

Beneath the hype that housing has bottomed is an ugly little scenario: lending standards are still loose and the low-down payment, high-risk loans being guaranteed by government [...]

IRS Warns Taxpayers to Beware of First-Time Homebuyer Credit Fraud

The Internal Revenue Service this week announced its first successful prosecution related to fraud involving the first-time homebuyer credit and warned taxpayers to beware of this type of scheme.

On Thursday July 23, 2009, a Jacksonville, Fla.-tax preparer, James Otto Price III, pled guilty to falsely claiming the first-time homebuyer credit on a client’s federal [...]

Congress could help over 500,000 people buy homes

By: Dennis Norman

According to the National Association of REALTORS(R) if a tax credit is made available to all home buyers and that credit need not be repaid then this could result in an additional 555,000 home sales. 

This echos my post of two days ago titled “Fix Housing First” with regard to the importance [...]