All Entries in the "Political Action" Category
Builders Trying to Extend Home Buyer Tax Credit
There’s been much talk recently about how the end of the first-time home buyer tax credit will affect the real estate market. Over 1 million buyers have utilized this incentive to purchase a home, giving the housing market the push it has needed. But, will we revert back into a slump once it is gone? [...]
President Obama is “Making Homes Affordable”
President Obama’s mortgage relief program also called the “Making Home Affordable” plan is starting to make progress after a slow beginning, according to a recent article by Alan Zibel of the Associated Press. Obama’s mortgage relief program entails $50 billion worth of changes and officially began in March, but never seemed to take hold until [...]
Housing Industry Professionals Strive to Reform Appraisal Process
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) recently hosted a Residential Real Estate Appraisal Summit with federal regulatory agencies and the major housing and financial institution stakeholder and appraisal organizations to discuss constructive solutions to appraisal problems.
Among the problems discussed at the summit was the use by some appraisers of foreclosed or other distressed properties [...]
Builders Attempt to Extend Home Buyer Tax Credit
The National Association of Home Builders needs your support in extending the first time home buyer tax credit and trying to create more jobs in the process. As members of Congress return home for the August congressional recess, members are being urged to contact their lawmakers and ask them to help create jobs and set [...]
House Bill 261 Passes the Senate
Great news for the Georgia housing industry as Bill 261 has passed through the Senate and is on its way to a conference committee. The committee is in charge of working out the differences between the Senate version and the House version to create a decent compromise that incorporates factors from both. Hopefully we will [...]
