Waltham, MA (PRWEB) October 09, 2012
John McGeough and Anthony Lamacchia, co-brokers and owners of McGeough Lamacchia Realty, say that although both plans from the candidates focus mostly on assisting distressed property owners, they require to concentrate more on preventing men and women from becoming distressed home owners and supporting the bigger portion of home owners who are the men and women who can afford their properties.

The Romney Housing Strategy calls for promoting off vacant houses owned by the government, assisting troubled home owners steer clear of foreclosure by producing it less difficult to do brief sales and deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure, and reforming the government-owned sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Romneys housing plan also calls for replacing the Dodd-Frank Act with easier, much more sensible regulation.

The Obama Housing Plan proposes to invest $ 15 billion into rehabilitating and refurbishing hundreds of thousands of vacant and foreclosed properties and companies and to transition foreclosed home into rental housing. Obamas plan also calls for Broad Based Refinancing for borrowers who are present on their payments to refinance their houses and will expand the Home Inexpensive Mortgage Program (HAMP) eligibility to reduce additional foreclosures.

McGeough Lamacchia Realty outlines five main issues which are not addressed in these housing plans:

The first concern outlined is to extend the Mortgage Relief Act which is set to expire at the finish of the year. This Act relieves distressed homeowners from obtaining to pay federal taxes on the quantity of debt that was forgiven in a refinance or loan modification, short sale, or foreclosure.

In Obamas spending budget proposal for 2013, he did contact for an extension of this Act through January 1, 2015, but the clock is ticking, says Anthony Lamacchia. This requirements to be pointed out as component of an general housing plan that protects struggling home owners facing foreclosure.

The second concern is to preserve the Mortgage Interest Deduction which has been a component of the federal tax code for nearly a hundred years.

The Mortgage Interest Deduction has been about since 1913 and it is a great incentive for owning a property. Eliminating or decreasing this incentive at a time like this would be very poor policy on behalf of our government, says John McGeough.

McGeough Lamacchia Realty says a sound Housing Strategy from either candidate must include guarding the Mortgage Interest Deduction.

McGeough Lamacchia Realty says extending the so-referred to as Bush Tax Cuts (also known as the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance coverage Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010), is the third item that requirements to be component of the conversation for improving the housing market. Several provisions of this law went into impact which includes a single that decreased the tax rate on capital gains to a maximum of 15%.

For men and women who own investment home, the capital gains tax will improve if they are not extended beyond the finish of this year. Right now for home owners in the lowest two income tax brackets of 10 or 15 %, the extended-term gains are tax cost-free. But if the tax cuts expire, the ten % bracket will collapse into the 15 percent bracket, and taxes for this bracket will go from to 10 %. For home owners in the earnings brackets above 15 %, the long term capital gains tax will increase to 20 %.

The fourth item that is not getting discussed is how the Payroll Tax Cut hurts homeowners. In December of final year, President Obama signed the Payroll Tax Cut extension, but homeowners are paying Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to spend to Treasury for the tax credit. The charges Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac charge to insure property mortgages improved to from .three percent to .4 %. For a homeowner with a $ 200,000 mortgage, that implies their monthly mortgage payment would be about $ 17 greater or an extra $ 6,000 more than the course of a 30-year loan.

Property owners with bigger mortgages spend far more. McGeough Lamacchia Realty says money should not be taken out of peoples mortgages to pay for other government debts like the payroll tax law.

And ultimately, McGeough Lamacchia Realty says the housing plans ought to incorporate keeping Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac rather than reform or replace them.

Soon after the housing bubble burst, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had been placed into conservatorships in September 2008 and have given that received $ 188 billion in taxpayer support. McGeough Lamacchia cites they have already began to pay back the debt and are producing cash once more. In August, Fannie Mae reported a net income of $ five.1 Billion for the Second Quarter, and Freddie Mac reported a net income of $ 3 billion for the exact same time period. Fannie and Freddie have repaid about $ 46 billion to the Treasury in dividends and have not had to draw on Treasury funds for the second quarter of 2012.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac enable banks to offer you home loans to low- and middle-revenue purchasers who otherwise might not have been in a position to get a mortgage. McGeough Lamacchia Realty says without having them, mortgages would be much more costly for everybody, which is why they must be kept.

McGeough Lamacchia Realty says each candidates want to contain these 5 points in their housing plans.

For a complete comparison of the Romney and Obama Housing Plans, visit the New England True Estate Weblog.

About McGeough Lamacchia:

McGeough Lamacchia Realty is the number 1 Real Estate Agency in Massachusetts and named one of the quickest developing Real Estate Organizations in the U.S in 2012 by Inc. Magazine. They are a complete service actual estate agency serving home buyers and sellers Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Sources:

Obama Program for a Housing Recovery
Romney Housing Program: Securing the American Dream and the Future of Housing Policy
Fannie Mae reports a net earnings of 5.1 Billion for the Second Quarter
Freddie Mac reports a net income of $ 3 Billion





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