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(01/15/10) Residential Sales Available on Minnehaha County Website: Minnehaha County has listed all of the Arms Length transactions of residential homes and lots on their website. Following the site and increase the size to 200% to better see the information. They will be updating the information monhtly. Link to list.

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(12/7/09) HUD Releases Schedule of "Live Online" RESPA Presentations: On December 3, 2009, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a scheduled series of "live online" presentations on the new RESPA rule. The dates and times for the upcoming HUD presentations are December 7h at 11:00 a.m.; December 10th at 2:00 p.m.; December 11th at 11:00 a.m. and December 16th at 1:00 p.m. (all times EST). HUD also announced that it will post a prerecorded version of the presentation on its website in the near future. In addition, HUD's RESPA website has added new "fillable" versions of the new Good Faith Estimate and HUD-1 forms.

HUD press release on live RESPA presentations >

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First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit Extension Passes Senate and House (11/05/09) - Congress extends and expands home buyer credit; more information pending from NAR. Listen to NAR President McMillian's podcast here.

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