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Free Cash & Reduced Costs for Home Improvements
Now is a great time to make home improvements, repairs or take care of past due maintenance. If you are selling your home, improvements will certainly make your home sell faster and for more money. If you’re not selling a home, rebates, lower material and labor costs, and cheap financing provide perfect timing for sprucing up your residence.
Through 2010, homeowners who install energy efficient windows, insulation, roofs, doors or heating and air systems can apply for a 30 percent (up to $1500) tax credit for each product they purchase.
Even better….homeowners can receive a 30 percent tax credit through 2016 (with no spending limits) when they purchase green, energy saving products such as solar systems, geothermal heating pumps, small wind systems, residential fuel cells or micro turbines. For complete details, visit the Energy Stars Federal Tax Credits for Energy Efficiency website.
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Sellers Market 1st Quarter 2010…then ?
The Federal government leads us to believe that housing sales (number of units, not prices)will be up at least until April of 2010. But, the Fed, along with other experts, have expressed fear that home sales will dry up after early spring, when the homebuyer tax credits expire and the Federal Reserve ends their policies that are keeping loan rates cheap for borrowers. (Click here to Read the short article.)
What can you Learn from Foresight vs Hindsight this Year?
- To make the most money in 2010…Get your house clean, cleaned out, staged and priced to sell NOW.
- Do not wait until Spring is here to put your home on the market. Do it NOW!
- 90 percent of all home buyers shop on the internet, not newspapers, local or otherwise. If you aren’t marketing your property on all major websites for real estate, buyers will not find your home. There are simply too many homes for sale and buyer’s will not any waste time ferretting out information or for obscurely advertised property.
- Use photographs and video’s to show and sell your home. Add in video or snapshots of the neighborhood, nearby shopping, parks or attractions. Pictures, and especially video, create interest and a glimpse of lifestyle that buyers crave.
- Sell it yourself, but enlist the help of buyers agents. Buyer’s agents use the MLS to find property for their clients. Advertise on the MLS and offer up some commission to them, if they bring you their buyers! Bonus: If you list your home on the MLS, it will immediately stop all annoying listing calls, too.
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Hope Springs for Housing in 2010
If you are serious about selling your home, then 2010 is the year for you.
- The decimated housing market is showing signs of stabilization in price and demand. Prices have actually risen for the past 6 months, through October, and overall demand has increased.
- Interest rates are at historical lows, but they have risen a half percent in the last month. Higher interest rates are a big motivator to buy now, as no one expects rates to stay this low going forward.
- The Fed extended the $8000 first-time buyer tax credit and expanded $6500 credit which includes non-first timers. This program certainly helps lure ready-buyers into the marketplace. To qualify all sales must close by June 2010.
- Homes are affordable. In markets like Phoenix, you can buy a home for $800 a month, which makes owning cheaper than renting.
While the news on real estate in 2010 is mixed, and no one is predicting a rebound in housing until 2013, the bear market is definitely in its last innings.
If you have a home to sell, there hasn’t been a better time in years. To succeed, contact Why6Percent.com to advertise your property on the MLS and real estate websites where 90 percent of the buyers are looking. It’s really that simple.
4 Good Signs for Real Estate in 2010
It’s beginning to look like 2010 is the year to buy a home.
- Cheap Prices: After a decade of steep home price appreciation, the recent crash pummeled home prices back to levels last seen in 2003.
- Low Interest Rates: 5 percent or less for a 30 year fixed rate loan mean rates are at historical lows, at least for now. Rates are expected to rise the next 4 quarters…so if you snooze, you may loose the chance to lock in at once in a lifetime rates.
- Foreclosures: Although losing a home is a life changing, tramatic experience…large numbers of foreclosures have created wonderful opportunities for buyers and investors.
- Uncle Sam: Uncle Sam is sweetening great deals on homes by handing out thousands of dollars to first time and existing homeowners who close on a home before June.
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Pending Home Sales Jump 32 Percent
Good news for Home Sellers and Owners. Pending sales of Existing Homes was up nearly 32 percent from October 2008!!!
Sales of Existing Homes are Up a Whopping 23 percent this year, to 6.1 million homes!!
Indeed, the housing market hit bottom months ago and more proof arrives daily. The market is shifting as buyers jump off the sidelines in order to lock in low prices and interest rates.
If you need to sell your home, NOW is the time. Get your home in front of millions of motivated home buyers with the click of your mouse. 90 percent of all homebuyers find their dream home on the internet. If you’re not there, they can’t find you, no matter how nice your home is.
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Housing Starts Down 30 Percent
Surprising all the real estate analysts, the number of new housing starts in October fell off the cliff in October.
Permits to build single family homes, apartments and condominiums fell 10.6 percent from September. Year over Year, the numbers are even more dramatic. Building permits in 2009 are down 30.7 percent from October 2008 levels. It goes without saying that home builder sentiment is still at an all time low.
The Upside: Fewer new home starts can be viewed as great news in the face of rising home inventories. We have months of excess supply of homes on the market, already.
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Home Buyers Highly Motivated
According to a survey by Move.com, 12.1 percent of homebuyers intend to purchase an investment property this year, compared to only 5.6 percent of buyers polled in April.
The percentage of investors shopping for property also jumps higher when it comes to foreclosed property. 42 percent of foreclosure buyers are purchasing for an investment. 57.6 percent of foreclosure shoppers plan to live in the home they buy.
The survey also shows that 23.6 percent of investors and buyers believe that home prices are already as low as they will go. Nearly 20 percent feel a sense of urgency when searching for a bargain.
Another factor motivating home buyer’s off the sidelines is the real threat of rising interest rates. Wall Street guru’s, who agree on very little, warn that lending rates will rise in the near future. With real estate prices at their lowest levels, buyers risk much more in waiting to purchase, than they do by locking in record low rates on their loan.
Why6Percent Prediction: We believe the leading indicator of an interest rate hike will be falling unemployment claims. When unemployment claim filings fall below 500,000 per month, a rate hike is likely!
Realtors Prediction: Home sales will jump by over 13 percent in the next 6 months.
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6 Reasons to Sell Your Home During the Holidays
I’m thinking Turkey. The leaves have fallen, lawn mowers are stored and furnaces are in use. It’s at this time of year that many of our customer’s ask… “Should We Take Our Home Off the Market During the Holidays?”
The answer is definitely ”NO”. There are a lot of reasons to keep your home listed right through the New Year. And, there’s an especially, timely reason this holiday season!!
- The First Time Buyers Tax Credit has been extended until April 30, 2010 AND it’s been expanded. Step Up Home Buyers, who make a lot of money, can also receive $6500 in Tax Credits until April. Big tax incentives mean that smart buyers will be house shopping vs mall shopping this holiday season.
- Interest Rates are at Record Lows. 30 year fixed rate mortgages are below 5 percent. But, with the dollar weak and falling, low rates may not be around for long. Serious home buyers are aware of the difference that even a small interest rate increase would make in their house payment. The combo of Tax Credits and Low Interest Rates create strong urgency among buyer’s. Smart seller’s spruce up their homes and play into the pressure.
- Holiday Shoppers are Serious Buyers. Trust me. Everyone of us loves the holidays. The people who are looking for homes in November, December and January are SERIOUS Buyers. Do you really want to pull your house off the market when the most serious people are shopping??
- Less Competition. Many sellers don’t read our blog. They foolishly pull their homes from the market during the holidays, and this year will be no exception. Less competition could make the difference between For Sale and Sold, this Christmas.
- Houses are Pretty during the Holidays. Staging your home is easy during the holidays. The mood is festive. Holiday colors are warm and inviting. Candles, centerpieces and decorations touch the heart and convey a peaceful lifestyle. Light the candles, make a roaring fire, bake some goodies and turn on some relaxing holiday music. Buyer’s love to see a home decorated and looking special. Don’t let this once a year opportunity pass you by.
- Curb Appeal. If your landscape and lawn isn’t that great, breathe a sigh of relief that no one else’s is this time of year, either. Add seasonal color, a wreath, perhaps some decorations. Just keep it subtle and classy. No mowing, no weeding and trimming, and best of all snow covers all…
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Moving Scams, Cons and Thefts at Record Levels
BEWARE: Moving company scams, thefts and frauds are bold, brazen and at a record levels. Bottom feeder scum bags, with 2 assets…a back and a truck, are preying on thousands of unfortunate people being forced to move.
Watch Out. The “moving” con artist generally targets the most vulnerable among us. Their primary victim is the internet price shopper, who enters personal information on ‘moving quote’ type website, promising to provide the lowest, legitimate price or quote for a move. 
Devastating like Fire. Victims report horror stories that range from being extorted out of thousands of dollars to get their belongings off loaded, to even more disturbing reports that some families lost every possession, family photo, etc. that they owned, when the moving truck never showed up at the destination, ever.
What possibly disturbs me the most, is that like the con artist who sells “cures” to the dying, stealing what little they have left, the majority of moving scam victims are in the same boat. They are being forced to move due necessity, job loss, foreclosure, overall affordability, health problems, old age, wage cuts, etc.
ACTION: If you have been a victim of a moving scam or moving quote website, report this crime to MOVING SCAM.COM IMMEDIATELY!! The website has a single complaint form that they file with various legal and reporting agencies. In addition, victims can print copies of the compliant form to provide to local police and state authorities.
Advise: Search MovingScam.com before you become a victim. The site also provides great infomations including moving company reviews, helpful links and a consumer forum.
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