The Monetization of the $8,000 First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit

There has been much talk in recent weeks about giving buyers the ability to use their $8,000 first time home-buyer tax credit in lieu of cash as downpayment (you, in essence, sell your tax credit back to the lender) on a home, and a great deal of the information is, at worst, errant, and at [...]

The May Phoenix Real Estate Reports Are In…

Wow – What a month!  I thought April was nuts, but the Month of May would prove to be much more active.  These last couple of months rival even the boom months of September and October of 2006 in terms of actual units sold.  Let’s go straight to the charts, and remember that clicking the [...]