Real Estate

Solutions to Real-Life Money Challenges

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Home Buyer's Credit
-- When the Check Comes

Kiplinger editorial director Kevin McCormally and fellow tax experts Peter Blank and Mary Beth Franklin tackle your most pressing tax challenges.

How Not to Get Soaked

Water woes? When to call in a pro, and when not to call your home insurer.

The Reluctant Landlords

Homeowners put their white elephants up for rent.

Ask Kim: How to Compare Funds, ETFs

Kimberly Lankford explains how to compare the performance of similar mutual funds and ETFs, whether you can get your Medicare Part B premiums reduced, and more.

A Home Buyer Credit Meets Foreclosure

Kiplinger editorial director Kevin McCormally and fellow tax experts Peter Blank and Mary Beth Franklin tackle your most pressing tax challenges.

Hints of a Rebirth for
Commercial Real Estate?

Investors are taking an interest in commercial real estate, primarily apartment and office buildings. Retail space -- not so much.

The Home Buyer Credit: Payback Time?

Kiplinger editorial director Kevin McCormally and fellow tax experts Peter Blank and Mary Beth Franklin tackle your most pressing tax challenges

Time to Sell the Timeshare

Kiplinger editorial director Kevin McCormally and fellow tax experts Peter Blank and Mary Beth Franklin tackle your most pressing tax challenges.

Glimmers of Light on Home Prices

Sales are ticking up, but don�t expect prices to follow until the middle of the year.

Home Buyers Get a Bigger Break

First-time buyers get more time to qualify for a tax credit, and homeowners who trade up can claim a credit, too.

Deductions for Homeowners

What to Know if You Rent Out Your House

Here's what you need to know about taxes and insurance if you turn your home into rental property.

Home-Sale Profit Rules for Widows
And Widowers

A sale by year-end could double the amount of profit that is tax-free.

The Home Buyer Tax Credits Are Hot

Kiplinger editorial director Kevin McCormally and fellow tax experts Peter Blank and Mary Beth Franklin tackle your most pressing tax challenges.

Home Buyer Credit: When It Comes
Time to Repay

Kiplinger editorial director Kevin McCormally and fellow tax experts Peter Blank and Mary Beth Franklin tackle your most pressing tax challenges.

Benefit from New Tax Credits Now

Don�t wait for next year�s refund. Change your withholding to boost your pay now.

A Year-End Gift for Home Buyers

No need to wait until tax-filing season to cash in on the home-buyer credit.

Don't Buy a House -- Yet

When housing prices hit bottom, they will languish near those low levels for years to come. So don�t be in a rush to buy.

When Do Agents Need to Split a Commission?

There's no statute of limitations on a broker's fee.

The Strongest and Weakest Housing Markets

Ten places where home prices are rising, and ten places where prices are tumbling.

Most Popular Kiplinger Guidance of 2009

Don't fall behind. Prosper from Kiplinger's most valuable guidance of 2009, as measured by the number of your fellow readers already benefiting from it all.

FAQs on the New
Home Buyer Tax Credits

We have the answers on the money available, whether you're a first-time buyer or looking to move.

A New Tax Break for Home Buyers

First-time home buyers aren't the only ones now who can qualify for a hefty tax credit.

Time Your Closing Right
To Save Thousands

Homeowners moving up to new digs could earn a new $6,500 tax credit -- but only if they finalize the deal after an expected new law goes into effect.

Must I Disclose the Murder in My House?

Not your average seller's quandary. Plus, what's the right return policy?

11 Things to Celebrate as
2009 Comes to a Close

Things aren�t all bad. The markets rebounded, consumer-electronic prices are plummeting, foods are getting healthier and fewer people are dying on our roads. What�s on your list?