The National Association of Realtors is lobbying hard to extend the June 30 closing deadline for the $8,000 federal tax credits:
The problem, says the National Association of Realtors, is that many of those signed contracts are on foreclosures and short sales, where the lender allows the house to sell for less than the amount owed to the bank. Those transactions take longer than normal to process, and there’s some concern that many sales may not actually close in time.
“There could be a sizable number of home buyers who responded to tax credit incentives, but may encounter problems,” said Lawrence Yun, the trade group’s chief economist, in Wednesday’s report that showed a 6% surge in pending home sales during April.
Only those who signed contracts before April 30 would get the extension, if an extension is okayed by Congress.
