National Real Estate Assoc. Supports 4 Changes

The National Association of REALTORS (NAR) has developed a four-pronged approach for helping solve some of the recent real estate recession:

What's their plan?

• Make the $7500 first-time homebuyer tax credit available to all buyers and eliminate repayment requirements. (Questions about this? Email your Blogger, Stephen Bornet, SBornet@Weichert.com. The credit is limited availability and repayment requirement severely limit the credit's use and effectiveness.
• Make the 2008 FHA, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loan limits permanent. New rules for 2009 will reduce them. Now is not the time to limit mortgage affordability.
• Get the Treasury relief program back on track and target more funds to mortgage relief. Create a federal mortgage interest buy-down program to make below-market rates available and stabilize home prices.
• Permanently bar banks from engaging in real estate brokerage and management. The banks have proved they have enough to do to simply manage the loan process. Banks should not manage home sales and purchases.