Last week we posted an article announcing that Congress had extended the home buyer tax credit deadline to close from June 30 to Sept. 30. The question, of course, was whether President Barack Obama would sign the measure into law. The IRS has confirmed that Obama did, indeed,  sign the Homebuyer Assistance and Improvement Act [...]

People who were unable to close on homes in time to take advantage of tax credits for new and repeat buyers may be able to relax a bit. The Associated Press (AP) reports that the Senate passed a measure already approved by the House to extend the closing deadline from June 30 to Sept. 30. [...]

There’s an app for that! I am beginning to think I use those four words more then any other four words in my life.  We are in the middle of an explosion of applications for Smartphones and no one person has the time to review them all.  Take a few minutes and visit the iPhone [...]

LJ Bryant, a Democrat, is a real estate licensee who owns Jackson Hewitt tax service in Jonesboro. He is running for Arkansas commissioner of state lands and has a primary coming up on May 18 against Mike Berg and State Representative Monty Davenport. The winner of that race will face Republican John Thurston in the [...]

Senator Shane Broadway, a Democrat from Bryant, is finishing up his final term in the Arkansas Senate. Broadway is running for the office of lieutenant governor. He faces no opponent in the May 18 primary and but will square off in the November elections against one of the two Republicans who do have a primary [...]

Not only did we turn over a new year on January 1, but the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ushered in monumental and mandatory changes to the Good Faith Estimate (GFE) and HUD-1 settlement statement (HUD-1). The intent behind these changes is to make the lending process more transparent by providing settlement and [...]

Yeah, yeah, yeah — we’re releasing this week’s Monday Morning Briefing from TalkBusiness.net on a Monday afternoon. Cut us some slack — the February housing market report for Arkansas was just released this morning so I’ve been a bit busy. Still, we never want to sell Roby Brock short and appreciate these briefings he sends [...]

The bright folks over at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) Institute for Economic Advancement have posted their 2009 county and metropolitan statistical area (MSA) estimates to the Internet. To see how much the population of Arkansas and her counties have grown since 2000, click here. For MSA data, go here.

The latest Monday Morning Briefing is available from TalkBusiness.net for all of you folks hungry for business news from the Natural State. Click here for the latest briefing. Thanks, as always, to Roby Brock for assembling these weekly reports and making sure we at the Arkansas Realtors® Association always wind up with a copy.

The following article is by Tim Grooms, a partner at Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow in Little Rock and general counsel for the Arkansas Realtors® Association. I. Introduction There have been several decisions handed down from the Arkansas Supreme Court in recent years which, along with the Arkansas laws and Real Estate Commission Regulations, every [...]

Choosing the right name for your small real estate business can have a huge impact on its success. But what about your business phone number? Does it really matter what number you have, as long as it’s printed correctly on your business cards, product literature, Web site, emails and other materials? Actually, it does. The [...]

It’s Monday and that means we’ve got another update from Roby Brock over at TalkBusiness.net. If you’d like to see what’s going on in the wild world of Arkansas business, just click here to download the latest Monday Morning Briefing from TalkBusiness.net.

An analysis of Oregon Department of Revenue v. Marks, Or. Tax (2009) Internal Revenue Code Section 1031(a)(1) provides that “[n]o gain or loss shall be recognized on the exchange of property held for productive use in a trade or business or for investment if such property is exchanges solely for property of like-kind to be [...]

Roby Brock over at Talk Business does a heck of a good job covering business news here in the Natural State. He emails a Monday Morning Briefing every week to the Arkansas Realtors® Association and it’s about time we started posting those so our readers can enjoy them. To have a look at today’s Monday [...]

Tricia Fredinburg at Arvest Bank in Little Rock is in the habit of sending over information about lending and whatnot to the Arkansas Realtors Association (ARA). We at the ARA are glad of that because Fredinburg generally has some great information to share. The latest item she sent is no exception. What did she send [...]