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Proponents say the tax credit has helped breathe life into the comatose housing sector and that its extension is critical. "Failure to act now could derail the fragile housing recovery even before it has time to take root, " said Jerry Howard, president and chief executive of the National Association of Home Builders, in a recent statement. (See six year-end tax tips...
Congress is under the gun from homebuilders and Realtors to extend the $8,000 first-time home buyers' tax credit beyond its Nov. 30 expiration and even expand the credit to existing homeowners - a move that could happen before the week...
About 1.4 million households used the credit between February (when the program was launched) and September. And from 350,000 to 400,000 of those transactions involved purchases that would not have been made without the credit, says Lawrence Yun, chief economist with the National Association of Realtors...
Congress is mulling plans to extend the $8,000 first-time home buyers' tax credit to April 30 (which covers home purchases closed by June 30) and to allow individuals with incomes of up to $125,000 (or $250,000 for couples) to apply for the credit, up from the previous threshold of $75,000. Also, a proposal is on the table to offer a new credit - $6,500 - to move-up buyers who have lived in their home for at least five years. The Senate is near a vote on its version, which includes an extension and expansion...
...Then a not-so-funny thing happened on the way to rebalancing: the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The Chinese response to sharp declines in manufacturing and exports has been cheered for its effectiveness. Government stimulus spending and loose credit powered the country's economy to an 8.9% growth rate in the third quarter, and the most recent Purchasing Manager's Index (PMI), a widely watched gauge of economic sentiment released on Oct. 30, rose for the eighth straight month. It now shows "sustained expansion in industrial activity," says Jing Ulrich, managing director at JPMorgan in Hong Kong...