For qualified members of the military, foreign service and intelligence communities, the home buyer tax credit remains available. The extended time for the credit applies to both the $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers and the $6,500 tax credit for repeat home buyers.
Those who qualify have until April 30, 2011, to sign a contract and must close by June 30, 2011.
To qualify, personnel from ...
Posted by
Brenda Jenkins
@ 5:39 PM
on 06/24/2010
Yes, the home buyer tax credit expired for most of us on April 30 and won’t be renewed.
But if your family is in a situation where you need a new home, plenty of good reasons exist for buying today. The reasons center around cost. Home prices have moderated from the highs of 2007. Now you get more home for the dollar.
Mortgage interest rates have been hovering at near-record lows. That means ...
Posted by
Brenda Jenkins
@ 5:36 PM
on 06/24/2010
CLICK ON THE FLYER BELOW TO PRINT
Posted by
Brenda Jenkins
@ 9:38 PM
on 06/14/2010
The results of the 2009 Real Trends Magazine Top 500 Brokers!
Posted by
Brenda Jenkins
@ 5:25 PM
on 06/01/2010
Recovery in the metro Albuquerque residential real estate market continued during April. The 678 sales of single family detached homes closed during the month were a seven percent increase from March. The April sales performance represented a 25% jump from April 2009 and the best April sales figure since 2007.
The number of pending sales was 1,271 during April. This was an 18% improvement from March ...
Posted by
Brenda Jenkins
@ 11:36 AM
on 05/27/2010
Consider this happy situation. We have worked together and found the home of your dreams. Early on, we established the limit of how much you could pay for your new home. (and got you pre-qualified for a mortgage so we could move quickly when the time came.)
Now it’s time to do the deal. As your agent, I will work with you to set an initial offer price. Our offer will be less than the seller’s ...
Posted by
Brenda Jenkins
@ 11:35 AM
on 05/27/2010
Watering
During June it’s three days each week for watering with sprinklers, says the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority. Set your sprinklers to run for 20 minutes each. Water three times each week during June through August, the utility says.
Climate
The warmest average mean June temperature was 80.4 degrees in 1994, according to the National Weather Service. Only ...
Posted by
Brenda Jenkins
@ 11:32 AM
on 05/27/2010
New Mexicans already know about turquoise. The rest of the world is learning.
Bright turquoise is the home furnishing “color of the year,” says the spring fashion report from High Point Market, the world’s largest home furnishings trade show. Interior and product designers believe people feel better now after enduring several years of economic turmoil. Moving to brighter colors is ...
Posted by
Brenda Jenkins
@ 11:31 AM
on 05/27/2010
Albuquerque: The Unknown from Puzzled Pictures on Vimeo.
Thousands of Sellers to Offer Credit Up to $8,000 from May 1 Until July 31, 2010
PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC announced the launch of its Buyer Bonus Sales Event, a national promotion intended to build on the momentum of the soon-to-expire federal homebuyer tax credit. In a recent survey of Coldwell Banker Real Estate professionals, nearly half indicated that ...
