Monthly Archives: April 2010

BURLINGTON, VT - April 22, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Vermonters who rent live in the 15th least affordable state in the nation, according to a new report jointly released by the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), a Washington, DC-based housing advocacy group, and the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition.

WASHINGTON, DC - April 23, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, U.S. Senators Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ) announced nearly $1 million in funding for two New Jersey organizations to provide counseling to families and individuals facing foreclosure.

COLUMBUS, OH - April 21, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today the Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA) Board approved over $9.3 million of Tax Credit Exchange (TCE) and Tax Credit Assistance Program (TCAP) dollars created in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), together with more than $4.1 million from OHFA’s Housing Development Assistance Program (HDAP) and $9.1 million from the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP).

Event to Educate on Federal and City Fair Housing Rights

Albany, NY - April 23, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- The New York state housing market continued its strong start to 2010 compared to a year ago as first quarter sales were up nearly 18 percent compared to the 2009 first quarter, according to preliminary single-family sales data accumulated by the New York State Association of REALTORS.

April 23, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Long Beach Housing Development Company, together with Councilman Dee Andrews and Long Beach Weed & Seed, invite the public to learn about a new homeownership opportunity at Olive Court on Saturday, April 24 from 9:00 to 11:00 am at Renaissance Square/Union Bank Building; 1900 Atlantic Ave.

Brooklyn, NY - April 23, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- 184 Kent, the new rental building on the Williamsburg waterfront, announced today that it has signed 100 leases since it began renting in February. The building, located between North Third and North Fourth streets at the edge of the East River, offers a collection of 340 lofts in studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom configurations.

LOS ANGELES, CA - April 23, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Home sales increased 2.5 percent in March in California compared with the same period a year ago, while the median price of an existing home rose 20.8 percent, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) reported today.

Des Moines, IA - April 23, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- On Friday, April 23, 2010, the Iowa Department of Administrative Services and the Department of Public Safety will receive an award from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The DPS building is the only LEED certified building on the State of Iowa Capitol Complex. LEED stands for: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. The LEED Building Rating System is a voluntary, consensus based standard to support and certify successful green building design, construction and operations

INDIANAPOLIS, IN - April 23, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Homeowners on the verge of foreclosure face an overwhelming amount of information - from the Internet and TV, well-intentioned friends and family members, and scammers looking to take advantage of the financially distressed. Attorney General Greg Zoeller today announced 11 free workshops are scheduled to take place around the state beginning April 27th. The workshops are intended to cut through the noise and offer straight-forward advice to homeowners looking to understand their rights and options for avoiding foreclosure.

April 23, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rep. Frank Kratovil applauded today’s announcement that Maryland has been awarded $20 million in Recovery Act funding to expand energy efficiency building retrofit programs.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI www.hud.gov/news/ The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today presented over $1.1 million to five fair housing organizations to help fight housing discrimination in Michigan. John Trasviña, HUD's Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, made the grant presentations to Fair Housing Center of Metropolitan Detroit, Fair Housing Center of Southeastern Michigan, Legal Services of Eastern Michigan, and Fair Housing Center of West Michigan (see attached list below for project descriptions)

April 23, 2010 - (RealEstateRama). CT REIA and Lou Brown Presents: The Millionaire Jump Start Training Weekend. May 1st (8:30am to 7:00pm) and May 2nd (8:30am to 6:30pm). Doubletree Hotel. 16 Ella Grasso Turnpike Windsor Locks, CT 06096. $99 for 2 people (money will be refunded at event)

April 23, 2010 - (RealEstateRama). CT REIA and Lou Brown Presents: The Millionaire Jump Start Training Weekend. May 1st (8:30am to 7:00pm) and May 2nd (8:30am to 6:30pm). Doubletree Hotel. 16 Ella Grasso Turnpike Windsor Locks, CT 06096. $99 for 2 people (money will be refunded at event)

EUGENE, OR - April 23, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- RE/MAX Dallas-Fort Worth Associates real estate professional Cande Green has chosen to employ IDX, Inc. to simplify and improve the search functions on her website. By creating a simpler, more effective and organized online resource for potential home buyers, Green's website takes property listings from the Frisco and Dallas-Fort Worth Area and displays them with an easy-to-use search tool. As a resident of Frisco, Green is a member of the North Texas Real Estate Info Systems (NTREIS). Therefore, home seekers have access to thousands of the most current property listings and details on the market

EUGENE, OR - April 23, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Big Sur Real Estate professional Hillary Lipman of Monterey, California, has recently upgraded and enhanced her website, by adding the highly customizable IDX Broker software. This new software will allow potential home buyers to search a multitude of the most current listings on the market, through five innovative search features, including: basic, advanced, map, address and listing ID categories. Each search option withholds its own unique and distinctive characteristics and traits, enabling home seekers to complete the entirety of their real estate search online, and on their own personal time, if they so choose

EUGENE, OR - April 23, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- With new accounts being set up daily, IDX, Inc. is happy to announce the addition of Brandis Meeks, of Keller Williams Downtown Realty in Denver, Colorado, to the large group of real estate professionals revolutionizing the way people find homes online. Through the use of the custom IDX Broker software, Meeks and other agents and brokers that have chosen to revamp their websites have made the online property search process monumentally easier. Visitors to Meeks' website will have access to the most up-to-date listings on the Metrolist-Denver MLS (MTOMLS) online property database, without ever having to leave his page

EUGENE, OR - April 23, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, IDX Inc. is proud to announce that Doug Patterson of Park Place Real Estate in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has joined the large group of real estate professionals changing the way people search for houses online. As a member of the Triad MLS (Triad), Patterson's website now actively incorporates listed properties in the area with homes he is a broker of, to supply home seekers with the most effective and accurate list of homes. Along with these listings, there are unique search tools, which can help cut down the time spent on an online home search. These features help make Patterson's website a quick and concise tool throughout the home search process.

EUGENE, OR - April 23, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. is eager to announce today's addition of Rector-Hayden Realtors' Tim Wilson to the constantly expanding group of real estate professionals choosing to update their real estate websites with customized IDX Broker software, allowing them to simplify the online home buying experience for their clients. As a member of the Lexington Bluegrass MLS (LBAR), Wilson can extract listing data for properties in and around Lexington, Kentucky, to post on his website. This feature gives home seekers the ability to examine all homes in the area, which is often lost in the online home search.

New York, NY - April 23, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) --– Halstead Property Development Marketing today announced proven success in search engine marketing campaigns for real estate developments through its partnership with Ai Media Group

WASHINGTON, DC - April 22, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- As Americans celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day and in recognition of the federal government's continuing commitment to saving energy and taxpayers' money, Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) along with Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-MO), and Rep. Judy Biggert (R-IL) introduced legislation today to ensure that federal employees who operate and maintain our federal facilities have the training and resources they need to safeguard our nation's significant investment in energy efficient buildings.

ORLANDO, FL - April 22, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Florida’s existing home sales rose in March, which means that sales activity has increased in the year-to-year comparison for 19 months, according to the latest housing data released by Florida Realtors®.Existing home sales increased 24 percent last month with a total of 16,294 homes sold statewide compared to 13,090 homes sold in March 2009, according to Florida Realtors. Statewide existing home sales last month increased 37 percent over statewide sales activity in February. Also noteworthy: While March’s statewide existing-home median price of $137,000 was down from the same time a year ago, it was 4.3 percent higher than February’s statewide existing-home median price.

WASHINGTON, DC - April 22, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin, both D-Mich., announced today that the state has been awarded $30 million for the Michigan Retrofit Ramp-Up Initiative (MRRI). The funding comes from the Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

BALTIMORE, MD - April 22, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced today that his Securities Division has ordered Montgomery County-based WEI Mortgage Corporation, and its principal, Wesley Yuan, to cease and desist violating Maryland’s securities laws. The order charges WEI Mortgage Corporation and Yuan with engaging in the offer and sale of unregistered, non-exempt securities in the form of “FPP” or “Funding Participation Program” promissory notes, while misrepresenting to investors that the FPP notes were not securities investments, and that the investments involved “little to no risks.”

EUGENE, OR - April 22, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. publicized today, the addition of Richard Palmano with Palmano Group Real Estate in Winter Park, Floria, to the growing list of real estate agents and brokers using their primary software application, custom IDX Broker. This new and modernized IDX addition will enable Palmano to immediately and directly link potential home buyers with a plethora of realty prospects, from houses to lots, and everything in-between, making the initial real estate search much more simple and efficient

LOS ANGELES, CA - April 22, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- The CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) today launched its 2010 Consumer Advertising Campaign. The campaign raises awareness of the REALTOR® brand and reinforces the professionalism of California REALTORS®, while addressing concerns home buyers and sellers may have about today’s market. The campaign’s theme, “Your Piece of California. Your Peace of Mind,” will be heard or seen across the state nearly 130 million times via television, radio, and online.

URBANA-CHAMPAIGN - April 22, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- On the eve of Earth Day, Governor Pat Quinn today visited the award-winning, solar-powered Gable Home on the University of Illinois’ Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) campus. The university came in second in the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2009 Solar Decathlon thanks to the home’s modern design and innovative energy-efficient and renewable energy technologies.

Atlanta, GA - April 22, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- April 21, 2010— Atlanta real estate professional Bill Murray hasrecently joined Prudential Georgia Realty. He was hired to open and leadPrudential Georgia Realty’s new Buckhead office at 3221 Peachtree Road. The Buckhead sales team Murray hired,now at 25+ and growing, moved into the newly renovated office space last week. AnAtlantanative, Bill has 25+ years experience with person-to-person sales, marketingand management. He earned his Bachelor of Science from Georgia State University.Bill most recently served as associate managing broker with Harry Norman,Realtors.

Atlanta, GA - April 22, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Realtor RyanThompson is the latest to make the switch to Prudential Georgia Realty. She is based out of Prudential GeorgiaRealty’s new Buckhead office, located at 3221 Peachtree Road, just south of thePeachtree and Piedmont Road intersection.

New York, NY - April 22, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Halstead Property Development Marketing and RGS Holdings, LLC, in conjunction with Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group and JP Morgan Chase Community Development, today announced the opening of three on-site model apartments at 2280 FDB in Harlem