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Home sales volume and price peaks
By Bradley Markano • Jan 19th, 2012 • Category: ChartsThis article looks at home sales volume through and beyond the current recovery.
Posts Tagged ‘tax’
No taxes owed on funds from government programs
By Bradley Markano • Mar 14th, 2011 • Category: real estate newsflashThe Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has clarified that some homeowners who receive financial assistance from the federal government under the Home Affordable Modification Project (HAMP) will not be required to pay taxes on that support. Specifically, funds received from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Housing Finance Agency (HFA) Innovative Fund for the Hardest-Hit Housing Markets (The [...]
May 2010 LW
By Alex Gomory • May 20th, 2010 • Category: Legislative Watch, May 2010 JournalA look at the legislation affecting real estate enacted during the 2009-2010 Legislative Session. For an archive of Legislative Watch years, click here.
California tax surprise for short sales and foreclosures
By Bradley Markano • Mar 12th, 2010 • Category: real estate newsflashHomeowners who lost homes in foreclosure or sold property in a short-sale in 2009 will incur an unexpected state tax on any discount or underbid of a recourse mortgage loan. California, unlike the IRS, currently considers forgiven mortgage debt on recourse loans to be income subject to state taxes. This extra “income” for the homeowner [...]
March 2010 Market Charts
By ft Editorial Staff • Mar 1st, 2010 • Category: March 2010 JournalCharts with up-to-date information and predictions about the course of the California real estate market.
February 2010 LW
By ft Editorial Staff • Feb 3rd, 2010 • Category: February 2010 Journal, Legislative WatchA look at the legislation affecting real estate enacted during the 2009-2010 Legislative Session. For an archive of Legislative Watch years, click here.
H.R. 4173 and the failed homeownership cramdown amendment
By ft Editorial Staff • Feb 3rd, 2010 • Category: February 2010 Journal, Journal Articles, Lead ArticleThis article explores the failure of Congress to grant bankruptcy courts the authority to save homeowners from foreclosure.
February 2010 SCW
By Connor P. Wallmark • Feb 2nd, 2010 • Category: February 2010 Journal, Supreme Court WatchReal estate related issues pending before the United States and California Supreme Courts.
Due diligence investigations into a trust deed note
By Connor P. Wallmark • Feb 2nd, 2010 • Category: Feature Articles, February 2010 Journal, Journal ArticlesThis article analyzes the due diligence investigations by a mortgage loan broker (MLB) into a trust deed note available for purchase by his trust deed investor.
The shrinking California inventory: not quite a weathervane
By ft Editorial Staff • Jan 29th, 2010 • Category: real estate newsflashCalifornia’s supply of previously-owned single family residences (SFRs) sank to a five-year low of 3.8 months in January 2010, down from 5.8 months a year ago. When compared to the January 2008 supply of 16.6 months, this particular statistic points to a California real estate recovery. Or does it? The “months of supply” is merely [...]
