Extra year-end mortgage payment could cut tax bill (Bankrate.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Make your January mortgage payment by Dec. 31 and you’ll have extra interest to deduct on your upcoming tax return.
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NAHB Honors Outstanding Home Building Safety Programs Recognizing builders who have developed excellent worksite safety programs and made outstanding contributions to advance construction safety, the National Association of Home Builders announced the finalists of ...Commentread more...
Mortgage crunch hits Bay Area hard because of jumbo loans (San Francisco Chronicle) Need a mortgage this month? It's going to be harder - and more expensive - to get one. In the past week, turmoil in the mortgage markets has caused increasing
Real Estate Weekly -- Feb. 17 Real estate agents and brokers that belong to the National Association of Realtors have a system in place to police themselves for misconduct.read more...
The big picture New federal housing data show that the nation's most overheated local housing markets now make up such a large share of the total U.S. market that a sharp fall in
Drive to make deals fuels mortgage woes (Bankrate.com via Yahoo! Finance) Why such carnage in the subprime mortgage market? Everyone in the real estate business has incentives to make sure deals happen -- even unwise ones.read more...
Smart ways to win referrals Sometimes it may seem as if all your competitors are benefiting from strong referrals and word-of-mouth-you wonder how they manage to get so lucky.read more...