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The federal tax credit for first-time home buyers is to ensure that home buyers will become home owners utilizing the 00. Not only will the tax credit help the real estate industry, it will more importantly help increase home ownership.

The tax credit is for home buyers purchasing a new or pre-owned home. To qualify for the tax credit, you must buy the home before May 1, 2010 (with the closing date before July 1, 2010). If you construct your home, the purchase date is the date that you occupy the home. Even if you were a home owner before, you can qualify for the tax credit if you did not own a home within the last 3 years of the purchase date.

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The subprime mortgage real estate fiasco has created a glut of residential real estate in the real estate market. Foreclosures are on the rise and it doesn’t look like the end is in sight for at least another year. Thousands of home owners are losing their homes because adjustable mortgage rates have adjusted upward and caused increases of monthly mortgage payments so high that the affected home owners just can’t make the payments. It is inevitable, under these circumstances that many homes go into foreclosure and banks have to take them back.

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