{"id":5708,"date":"2009-05-28T08:07:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T15:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=5708"},"modified":"2009-05-28T08:07:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T15:07:50","slug":"news-roundup-time-to-rent-tax-credits-indices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/28\/news-roundup-time-to-rent-tax-credits-indices\/","title":{"rendered":"News Roundup: Time to Rent, Tax Credits, Indices&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few relevant news stories that have popped into my inbox in the last few days:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Money Magazine: <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2009\/05\/22\/real_estate\/renting_buying.moneymag\/index.htm\" title=\"When it makes sense to rent\">When it makes sense to rent<\/a> <em>(Seattle is #1&mdash;woo!)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Seattle P-I: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/local\/406538_taxcredit26.html\" title=\"Tax credit down-payment plan waiting for IRS\">Tax credit down-payment plan waiting for IRS<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Seattle P-I: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/local\/406605_housing27.html\" title=\"Dueling indexes: How much are Seattle-area house values down?\">Dueling indexes: How much are Seattle-area house values down?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>USA Today: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/economy\/housing\/2009-05-27-real-estate-condos_N.htm\" title=\"Condo market fights to recover as prices remain down\">Condo market fights to recover as prices remain down<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The plan referred to in the second story above would be the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/17\/state-considers-irresponsible-plan-to-pre-distribute-8000-tax-credit\/\" title=\"State Considers Irresponsible Plan to Pre-Distribute $8,000 Tax Credit\">irresponsible, counter-productive one<\/a> we discussed here last month.  Frankly, I hope the IRS figures out a way to prevent people from pre-acquiring the tax credit, but realistically I suspect the plan will move forward.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody can accuse real estate professionals (or, more accurately, their lobbying groups) of letting the bubble deflate without a fight, I suppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few relevant news stories that have popped into my inbox in the last few days: Money Magazine: When it makes sense to rent (Seattle is #1&mdash;woo!) Seattle P-I: Tax credit down-payment plan waiting for IRS Seattle P-I: Dueling indexes: How much are Seattle-area house values down? USA Today: Condo market fights to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[198],"tags":[452,137,18,4,10,59,19,513,461],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-buy-vs-rent","tag-cnnmoney","tag-cohen","tag-condos","tag-link_roundup","tag-rent","tag-seattle_pi","tag-tax-credit","tag-usa_today"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>News Roundup: Time to Rent, Tax Credits, Indices... \u2022 Seattle Bubble<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/28\/news-roundup-time-to-rent-tax-credits-indices\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"News Roundup: Time to Rent, Tax Credits, Indices... \u2022 Seattle Bubble\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Here are a few relevant news stories that have popped into my inbox in the last few days: Money Magazine: When it makes sense to rent (Seattle is #1&mdash;woo!) 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