Search Results: Mortgage Report

Renter Nation: Do Leases Make Up One-Third of (Recent) Dallas Residential Real Estate Transactions?

By Candy Evans / August 26, 2011 /

…renters are finding it more expensive to lease than it would cost in mortgage payments to buy a house. But here, too, they are stuck, so they do it. “If…

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What Does This S&P Downgrade and Stuff Mean for the Dallas Real Estate Market? Another Nail in the RE Recovery Coffin?

By Candy Evans / August 15, 2011 /

…folks behind the Case Shiller report. Recall these are the people who gave good ratings to worthless tranches of mortgages bundled together and sold off to investors who trusted them….

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Texas Squatter Claims $300,000 home for Only $16: What Is This Man Smoking ? – Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / July 18, 2011 /

…Waterford Drive on June 17 because it had the perfect storm: the home was abandoned for foreclosure, then the mortgage company that owned it went out of business. After researching…

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51% of Americans Pay Zero Income Tax: Get Ready for DC to Target the Home Mortgage Deduction

By Candy Evans / July 13, 2011 /

…Committee on Taxation, which scores the cost of tax legislation for Congress, pointed this out in a recent report. The committee’s report further showed: While 22 percent of taxpayers owed…

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Real Estate State of the Union: How Texas Real Estate Will Fare in the Recovery — Did You Say, Real Estate Recovery?

By Candy Evans / June 20, 2011 /

…just¬†ripple along until the inventory clears. What could hurt recovery?¬†Plenty: congressional “reforms” that could lead to¬†higher mortgage down payment requirements, tinkering with or dumping Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and…

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