Tax Credit for first-time Homebuyers

As a first-time buyer, you could qualify for a tax credit of 10% of the price of your new home, to a maximum of $8,000. Read more.

A few key points about this 8,000 tax credit:

• It's designed for most first-time homebuyers who have made a qualified home purchase in 2009.
  
• The credit begins to phase out taxpayers according to their adjusted gross annual income.
• This tax credit is temporary, so if you're thinking about buying a home, it's important to act quickly.

In addition to this tax credit, don't forget about ZipRealty's 20% rebate for our buyer clients!

Win $500! Play "Price Me Now" on ZipRealty.com

How good are you at reading the real estate market? Have you ever wondered what other real estate shoppers thought a house was worth? Do you think that the 'wisdom-of-crowds' thinking can better predict sale prices of homes than other methods?

Come find out the answers to all of these questions AND get a chance to win $500 by playing "Price Me Now". In order to qualify for the $500 monthly prize drawing, all you need to do is to submit price predictions on 20 homes or more during the length of the contest. That's it. As a registered ZipRealty client, you're automatically entered into the drawing after you submit your 20 home price predictions.

After you guess, don't forget to click on "View All Predictions" to see what your fellow home shoppers predicted.

Learn more about the sweepstakes or just continue browsing for-sale homes and submit your price predictions.

Notable Home Reviews

I wanted to share a few notable home reviews we've received over the past few months from our clients:

"Not even worth looking. Only good thing about this house was the new door knob"

"The wonderful size of the back yard is unfortunatly(sic) overtaken with dog land mines."

"THIS HOUSE IS SO RUN DOWN IT SHOULD BE DEMOLISHED!!!!!!"

"Tip: When you are selling and showing your home, clean it!!!"

"It is like walking into a bread factory."

"Nice on the outside not on the inside"