It’s official — on July 2, a law was passed extending the closing date deadline for the Homebuyer Tax Credit Program. As a result, any buyer that signed a Purchase & Sale Agreement by April 30 has until September 30 to close. The real estate market continues to rally — and interest rates on mortgages [...]

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Josh Mettle Blog – Josh Mettle. This is a great article written by a good friend of mine Josh Mettle. He is one of the top producing Loan offiers in Salt Lake.. Great info.. Existing Home Sales dropped in May for the first time in 3 months but still managed to post its second-highest since November [...]

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ksl.com – Stocks slide after new home sales drop 33 percent. Home prices slide due to the expiration of the first time home buyer tax credit. Apprently it did inflate the number of homes selling over the last 6 months. Interesting time, who would have thought? The big questions is, do you think they will [...]

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“Most of the homes we looked at ended up being short sales,” she said. Not surprisingly, the couple ended up buying their dream last month, a 6,000-square-foot home with all the bells and whistles, via a short sale at a sizeable discount in South Jordan. In Salt Lake County, for example, nearly one-quarter of all [...]

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Program rehabs, sells foreclosed houses – Salt Lake Tribune. There are some new programs coming out every day to try and help homeowners that are struggeling to make their payments. It is important to understand your options. In an economy where things are unknown, the best advice I could give someone would be to seek [...]

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Foreclosure crisis hitting hard on the west side of the Salt Lake Valley – Salt Lake Tribune. Some interesting news about foreclosure’s in UTAH.. I would say the most important aspect of this article is to show what is happening and where it is happening. A lot of people would like to know the statistics, [...]

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ksl.com – Stocks rise after pending home sales top forecasts. So some good news, the stock market is reacting to the good news in the Real Estate market. I hve a hard time keeping the good/bad real estate news straight. It really doesn’t make sense to me sometimes.. And I am a local Real Estate [...]

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Facebook | Body Paintings & Photography by Renee Lee and Todd Keith. I think everyone should check this out.. Some local artists from Salt Lake City, UTAH.. I think it is really important to support local artists, so if you can make it stop by.. You will be amazed at the talent..

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Huntsman family acquires Sothebys real estate franchise – Salt Lake Tribune. Huntsman Family acquires Sotheby’s Franchise in Idaho and Wyoming. The luxury Real Estate Brad of Sotheby’s international has a new owner.. The Hunstman Family.. Many in the Salt Lake Valley are familiar with the household name of the Huntsman’s.. Interestingly, the Hunstman Family has [...]

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Enclosed is an attachment comparing FHA financing with Conventional Loan financing of a $200,000 home. Despite the concern everyone is having over the recent increase in the FHA Upfront Mortgage Insurance Premium from 1.75% of the base loan amount to 2.25% of that same amount, you can see in this attachment that a borrower still [...]

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