Monthly Archives: October 2011

Realtor Carol Holley integrates dynamic IDX solution onto professional real estate website

EUGENE, OR - October 27, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Carol Holley has become the latest real estate professional to integrate a customized IDX solution onto her website, thanks to IDX, Inc. and the extraordinary IDX Broker software. Holley, a Fredericks...

Despite Availability of Capital, Commercial Real Estate Industry Facing Long Grind to Recovery, According...

LOS ANGELES , CA - October 27, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- For 2012, U.S. real estate players must resign themselves to a slowing, grind-it-out economic recovery following a period of mostly sporadic growth, confined largely to a few real estate markets...

Access to thousands of Washington real estate listings made possible by IDX, Inc. on...

EUGENE, OR - October 27, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Seattle, Washington area properties just became easier to search for, thanks to the partnership of IDX, Inc. and Broker/Owner Bonnie Beddall of RE/MAX Metro Realty, Inc. Northwest MLS (NWMLS) are now ...

Federal Housing Finance Agency Reports Mortgage Interest Rates

Washington, DC - October 27, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Federal Housing Finance Agency today reported that the National Average Contract Mortgage Rate for the Purchase of Previously Occupied Homes by Combined Lenders, used as an index in some ARM c...

Specialized IDX solution makes finding a Dallas/Fort Worth home incredibly simple on website of...

EUGENE, OR - October 27, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. has enabled IDX Broker software on the real estate website of yet another professional Broker/Realtor of Integrity Realty, Inc., that of Stone Mountain, Georgia broker Suzette Moore. The uni...

Housing Authority Designated a High Performing Agency by HUD

October 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Fairfax County Redevelopment and Housing Authority (FCRHA) is again ranked among the best of the nation’s more than 3,000 housing authorities, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Developmen...

New York 2011-10-26 14:33:31

NEW YORK, NY - October 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- On behalf of the owners of One Madison Park, FKF Madison Group Owner LLC and its affiliated debtors (collectively, the “Debtors”), Jones Lang LaSalle today announced the firm’s special asset s...

Consumers’ Negative Outlook Doing Little to Dampen Retail Investors’ Dispositions in Phoenix

Phoenix, AZ - October 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Many retail market indicators continue to improve, despite erratic employment trends and sovereign debt worries. These economic headwinds have strongly impacted consumer sentiment, dropping third qua...

Warehouse Sales Continue to Surge in Phoenix, While Suburban Flex Space Attracting Foreign Investors

Phoenix, AZ - October 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Resurgent economic headwinds have rattled the nation’s employment and industrial markets, as both hiring and industrial property sales volume eased in the third quarter. Nevertheless, the economic ...

Keystone Pacific Property Management Promotes Griselda Sapiens to Management Division Project Coordinator

RVINE, CA - October 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- October 26, 2011— Keystone Pacific Property Management, a leading community association management company providing management services to community associations throughout Southern California, has ...

Real Estate Law Firm Expands to Madison Avenue In Deal Brokered by Winoker Realty

NEW YORK CITY, NY - October 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Carlos M. Velazquez & Associates, LLP, a growing real estate and real property tax law firm, has leased office space at 551 Madison Avenue on the corner of 55th Street, according to Barbar...

Eligible Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae Customers Can Now Refinance their Home Loans

Washington, DC - October 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Eligible homeowners who owe more on their Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae mortgage than what their home is currently worth can refinance at today’s low rates with reduced fees as a result of changes t...

Tierney Statement on Necessary Steps to Help Homeowners Stay in Their Homes

Washington, DC - October 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman John Tierney released the following statement in response to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) decision to enact a series of changes to the Home Affordable Refinance Program (H...

Boxer, Isakson Urge Administration to Make it Simple for Homeowners to Refinance

Washington, D.C. - October 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Johnny Isakson (R-GA) today praised the Administration’s announcement of new steps to help homeowners refinance and urged President Obama to make sure ho...

Program helps “underwater” homeowners refinance

WASHINGTON, DC - October 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-20) commended the President’s announcement this week to help struggling homeowners across the country. Through changes in the government's Home Affordable Refi...

RealEstateRama 2011-10-26 10:16:49

Washington, D.C. - October 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) today announced the launch of a bipartisan Housing Commission that will address the long-term challenges facing a struggling housing sector. Former U.S. Secret...

New-Home Sales Rise 5.7 Percent in September

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Sales of newly built, single-family homes rose 5.7 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 313,000 units in September, according to newly released data from the U.S. Commerce Department....

CBRE AND REBUILDING TOGETHER TEAM UP TO SUPPORT SOUTH FLORIDA HOMEOWNER IN NEED

Plantation, FL - October 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- CBRE Group, Inc. (CBRE) successfully partnered with Rebuilding Together of Broward County—an organization working to preserve affordable homeownership and revitalize neighborhoods—to a homeown...

IDX, Inc. showcases Longwood, Florida property listings on website of Y

EUGENE, OR - October 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Realtor Bob McNelis of Keller Williams Heritage Realty has opted to integrate the premier IDX technology, IDX Broker software, for his professional real estate website. Now, thousands of Mid Florida R...

LendingTree Applauds Program Changes for HARP 2.0

CHARLOTTE, NC - October 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Average mortgage rates have dipped slightly week-over-week according to the LendingTree Weekly Mortgage Rate Pulse, which tracks the lowest and average mortgage rates offered by lenders on the Lend...

IDX, Inc. keeps Florida Realtor Philip Mervis connected to Cape Coral clients

EUGENE, OR - October 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Florida Future Realty, Inc., IDX, Inc. and Realtor Susan Milner have teamed up to bring home seekers in Cape Coral, Florida an innovative online property search. With her customized IDX solution, Miln...

Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mortgage applications increased 4.9 percent from one week earlier, which included the Columbus Day holiday, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Appl...

Metro Credit Union works with the City of Boston to prevent foreclosures and provide...

October 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Metro Credit Union was recently approved as a lending partner for the Boston Home Center. Metro will collaborate with the Boston Home Center to develop and enhance mortgage programs aimed at placing homeowners in...

Congress and Obama Administration Must Act to Stimulate Housing Recovery

Washington, DC - October 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- America needs strong housing policies that ensure a robust recovery and do not further weaken the nation’s housing market. That was one of several recommendations resulting from the bipartisan N...

Homebuilders and Real Estate Investors Get Another Opportunity to Buy REO Land

Newport Beach, CA - October 25, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Determined to dispose of residual REO properties, Heartland Financial USA, a financial services company better known through their affiliates such as Arizona Bank & Trust, has employed the...

New York Start-Up Firms Ride Tech Boom, Become Biggest Venture Capital Deal Generator Outside...

NEW YORK, NY - October 25, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Although not the main driver of Manhattan’s office market recovery that began in mid-2010, Jones Lang LaSalle’s Report found that the resurgence of the high-tech industry has made a substantial ...

Living Shoreline Project at Marshes Light in Historic Manteo, NC

Kitty Hawk, NC - October 25, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- About a month ago, the Town of Manteo provided a dump truck load of fossil/spent oyster shells to Marshes Light. This past Saturday (October 15) a group of volunteers bagged the shells for placeme...

Lee & Associates Negotiates the Purchase and Sale of an 11,200-SF Industrial Building

Torrance, CA - October 25, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee & Associates, the nation’s largest broker-owned commercial brokerage firm, has completed the purchase and sale of an 11,200-square-foot industrial building at 15311-15323 Pipeline Lane in...

The Housing Crisis Drags Down the Economic Recovery

Washington, DC - October 25, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- This column was submitted to the National Newspaper Association The national unemployment rate is around nine percent and over ten percent in my home state of Georgia. With so many people looking ...

Florida Realtors® Takes Part in Brazil Trade Mission

ORLANDO, FL - October 25, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Representing the interests of the state’s real estate industry, a Florida Realtors® delegation headed by 2011 President Patricia Fitzgerald is in Brazil this week to discuss real estate investment...

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Mayor London Breed Celebrates Groundbreaking of New Affordable Housing in the...

Mayor London N. Breed today joined community leaders to celebrate the groundbreaking of future affordable housing at 1950 Mission Street. Once completed, the project will offer 155 affordable apartments for families