First-time buyers

Nearly one in four U.S. home buyers acquiring a mortgage in the last year have chosen loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration, the federal agency that is the world's largest insurer of home mortgages. From Oct. 1 through mid-August, applications for FHA single-family-home mortgages were...

The first-time home buyer tax credit expires Dec. 31, so if you're looking to target that market on the sale of your own home, you need to hurry.That's because in order to qualify for the credit, the closing needs to happen by Dec. 31, and it usually takes several months before a signed and...