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Homebuyer tax credit

October 26th, 200908:58 AM ET

By Mark Biller

Last week, I came across an article about the effort to extend and expand the Homebuyer Tax Credit. I hadn't been paying much attention to this particular effort, but in a nutshell, the idea is to extend it beyond Nov. 30, when the original is due to expire. It would be expanded by making it a $15,000 tax credit rather than $8,000 and by making it ...
Could your house soon be "underwater"?

August 19th, 200910:07 AM ET

By Joseph Slife

"How high's the water, mama?" Johnny Cash sang in "Five Feet High and Rising." A report from real-estate tracking firm, Zillow.com offers an answer: it's getting higher. Zillow's second-quarter numbers, reported by Bloomberg, show that almost one-fourth of U.S. mortgage holders were "underwater" - i.e., the balance on their mortgage exceeded t...

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