October 29, 2009

Leaders get closer and closer to extending the tax credit.

The demand for new homes and condominiums may increase by “more than two times because you’re allowing step-up buyers into the equation,” said Andrew Parmentier, a managing partner at Height Analytics, a research firm in Washington. ” You just opened up a whole new pool of people who can buy into those empty homes and empty condos that were built out.”

October 23, 2009

Fargo really is all it is cracked up to be, regardless of what the movie didn’t do for us.

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Don Morton was head football coach at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Tulsa and North Dakota State University. At 62, he’s the site leader for one of Microsoft Corp.’s (MSFT) largest campuses outside of Redmond, Wash., with nearly 1,500 employees and contractors. Except it’s in Fargo, N.D., a place only a few people on the planet can imagine.

October 19, 2009

Lawmakers continue to look at extension of tax credit

Facing mounting concerns over the bleak outlook for jobs, more lawmakers on Capitol Hill last week showed interest in extending and possibly expanding the $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit that is set to expire on Nov. 30.

October 16, 2009

National coverage on the strength of our ND market

It seems more than one media outlet nationally has been paying attention to what we and many other area businesses have been saying about the market and state of the economy here in North Dakota.

October 13, 2009

Don’t take my word for it, but now really is the best time to buy!

“We need to be shouting from the rooftops that this is not the time to get out of the market if you’re young,” says Christine Fahlund, a senior financial planner with T. Rowe Price. “This is the time to be in the market.”

More news from Washington…

Amidst growing concerns in the Administration and Congress over worrisome prospects for reducing the nation’s lengthening unemployment lines and further strengthening the economy as it moves tentatively toward recovery, Washington turned a sharper focus last week on extending the current $8,000 tax credit for first-time buyers beyond its Nov. 30 expiration date and expanding it to a wider circle of principal home buyers.

October 12, 2009

Real estate continues to be a great invesment, now more than ever…

Whether in the Fargo-Moorhead market, or around the country, find your Realtor and get the process started, these opportu7nities for home ownership won’t last forever! And as the article below shows, rates are GREAT!

October 9, 2009

Home Buyer Tax Credit MAY be extended…

Extending the First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit, due to expire at the end of November, is high on the Democratic Congressional to-do list, legislative aides said.