CNBC.com Monthly: Investor's Real Estate Guide

Thursday, Oct. 08, 2009    Get a Real-Time Quote    NEWS MARKETS INVESTING VIDEO CNBC TV CNBC     CNBC.com Highlights New and Must see features on our site: New! The Great Cramerican Challenge Must! Earnings Central Fan Us! CNBC's Official Facebook Page - Join The Conversation Investor's Real Estate Guide A CNBC Special Report Thanks partly to a homebuyer's tax credit, people are jumping back into the market. Some say the long-awaited recovery is here; others say it's a bargain-hunters paradise driven by foreclosed properties. Regardless, buyers and sellers alike can profit from our guide. Special Report Features Tax Credit: Good Deal, Little Time The federal government has an offer that you probably can't refuse. Time is running out, but if you meet the qualificatioins and have your act together, you can still cash in on $8,000. Read More Don't Know What Your House Is Worth? You're Not Alone A new survey from real estate website Trulia.com finds that 25.6 percent of homes currently on the market in the United States, as of October 1, 2009, have experienced at least one price cut. That's for the fourth straight month. Read More Million-Dollar Homes That's what they cost now, but they used to cost more. Read More What's Clicking on CNBC.com See the most popular stories on CNBC.com this month Top Stories Dow Drops Over 200; GE, Comcast Slide Where Jim Rogers Would Invest $1 Million Prince Alwaleed Urges US to Sell Citi Stake: Report US Faces Retro 70s Inflation: Rogers Top Video Market Bull vs. Bear Trader Talk with Art Cashin Roubini's Outlook Rogers: US Vulnerable to Hyperinflation Top Slideshows Twenty Stocks Ready to Pop View slideshow Portraits of "Villains" View Slideshow Million Dollar Price Reductions View Slideshow Most Beautiful Ferraris of All Time View Slideshow Top Blogs Dow Will Fall to 6,300 by Year End: Portfolio Manager With the prospect of higher unemployment hanging over the markets, some experts expect a correction. So are they right? Michael Cuggino, president and portfolio manager at Permanent Portfolio Funds, and John Lekas, CEO and portfolio manager at Leader Capital, shared their insights. Read More Warren Buffett's GE Warrants Still Under Water One Year Later Warren Buffett's warrants to buy almost 135 million General Electric common shares are still worthless, as they have been for almost the entire time since Berkshire Hathaway's $3 billion investment in the company was announced exactly one year ago today. ... Read More Govt. Loan Mods Beat the Deadline Today the Treasury Department releases its monthly status report on its Home Affordable Modification Program launched last Spring. This is the one that gives the number of trial mods offered and then lists all the servicers and shows what they are and, more importantly, are not doing for troubled borrowers. Read More   FOLLOW CNBC   Become a fan on Facebook   Follow us on Twitter Advertise With Us | Visit Our Member Center | Unsubscribe FIRST IN BUSINESS WORLDWIDE. © 2009 CNBC Inc. All Rights Reserved 900 Sylvan Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632