first-time home buyer credit

Aided by the home buyer tax credit, U.S. existing home sales jumped an unexpectedly large 7.6% in April. But is the real estate market strong enough to stand on its own now that the federal incentive has ended?

New homes sales surged 6.2% in October to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 430,000, the U.S. Commerce Department announced Wednesday, as buyers rushed to take advantage of what many believed would be the end of the $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers on October 30. However, Congress...

The housing market dropped off a cliff in October, as the original Nov. 30th expiration date for the first-time home buyers tax credit approached, according to the Housing Market Monitor of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Add to that the 6.25% 60-day delinquency rate in the third...