Yeah! Some in the realty business breathed a mass sigh of relief when the government agreed to prolong the first time home buyer tax credit initially approved last year.

This tax credit is truly what floated the real estate market by causing many likely home buyers to close, who presumably may not have closed without it.

There are differing perspectives on this topic as with most things, that contravene and even counterbalance one another. The idea of the use of tax payer money going toward helping people pay for their homes has most people up in arms. Since so many jobs in much of the U.S. are bound to the realty industry in one way or another, the mindset that objects to the use of tax dollars to help people buy their homes is minimized.

Many people point out that the tax break simply induces people who were already planning on buying to buy. This point of view forgets that the entire point of establishing the tax credit was to help the realty market for the short term. Since some of the buyers who are buying right now were obviously already looking, then the limited deadline of the tax credit will help them decide to buy sooner, rather than later.

And, there is always those who try to manipulate the system. Many people who do not qualify for the first time home buyer tax credit will fraudulently claim the benefits. Trading the tax credit for a stiff fine and jail time doesn’t seem like a good deal to me.

Given that realty prices were in a free fall, prior to the approval of the tax credit, it is a hard argument to make that says that they were not warranted. As the tax credit helps out the real estate business, it will also help the people who work inside the business, which is a lot of jobs that will return to the jobs market too.

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