OFFICE OF SUSTAINABLE HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES ACCOMPLISHMENTS REPORT DEMONSTRATES HOW SUSTAINABILITY GRANTS ARE HELPING...
WASHINGTON, DC - November 30, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities (OSHC) today released its 2012 Accomplishments Report, Helping Communities Realize a M...
Attorney General Bondi Reminds Qualified Borrowers Who Lost Homes to Foreclosure to Submit Claims...
TALLAHASSEE, FL - November 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Pam Bondi reminds Florida borrowers who lost their homes to foreclosure between Jan. 1, 2008 and Dec. 31, 2011 and who may be eligible for payment under the $25 billion national...
Announcing $1.3 Million in Affordable Housing Funds for MD
WASHINGTON, DC - November 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Barbara Mikulski (both D-MD) today announced that the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta (FHLBank Atlanta) will provide $1.3 million in funding to create greater affor...
Maximum Conforming Loan Limits for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to Remain Unchanged in...
Washington, DC - November 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today announced that the maximum conforming loan limits for mortgages acquired by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2013 will remain at existing levels. In m...
FHA ISSUES GUIDANCE TO HELP FHA-INSURED FAMILIES IN DISASTER AREAS
WASHINGTON, DC - November 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) recently published guidance to help families with FHA-insured mortgages struggling to repair or rebuild their homes in the wake of major disasters like Hu...
Con Man Agrees to Plead Guilty in Three Fraud Schemes, Including Multi-Million-Dollar Ponzi and...
LOS ANGELES, CA - November 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- A Glendale man has agreed to plead guilty to federal fraud charges, admitting that he ran three separate scams, including a Ponzi scheme that defrauded 30 families out of more than $8 million.
Mangano Announces Emergency Winter Shelter For Homeless Residents
Mineola, NY - November 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- With a wintery mix over the region, Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano today activated Nassau’s Warm Bed homeless program which providing shelter relief to individuals and families during c...
Grimm-Meeks Bill Becomes Law, Signed by President Obama
WASHINGTON, D.C. - November 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Yesterday, President Barack Obama signed into law H.R. 2606, the New York Natural Gas Supply Enhancement Act sponsored by Congressman Michael Grimm and Congressman Gregory W. Meeks. The bill a...
Mobile home park owner charged with illegally dumping sewage in Berks County
HARRISBURG - November 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- A Berks County man, who owns three mobile home parks in Berks, Dauphin and York counties was charged today by the Attorney General's Environmental Crimes Section after allegedly illegally discharging...
Texas Law Firm, Murray LLP, Agrees to End its Controversial Services to 5,222 West...
CHARLESTON - November 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Darrell McGraw announced today that Murray LLP, a Texas law firm, agreed to permanently discontinue offering a service to West Virginia foreclosure victims that a lawsuit filed by Mc...
Justice Department Settles Lawsuit Against Sussex County, Delaware, for Blocking Affordable Housing
WASHINGTON, D.C. - November 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Justice Department announced today that it has settled a lawsuit against Sussex County, Del., and the Planning and Zoning Commission of Sussex County for race and national origin discrimina...
U.S. House Prices Rose 1.1 Percent in Third Quarter 2012
Washington, DC - November 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. house prices rose 1.1 percent from the second quarter to the third quarter of 2012 according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA) seasonally adjusted purchase-only house price in...
Congress Should Extend Tax Relief for Distressed Mortgage Holders
WASHINGTON, D.C. - November 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Center for Responsible Lending and the Financial Services Roundtable today asked Congress to extend the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act, which is set to expire at year’s end. “This...
HARP Enhancements Continue to Bolster Program
Washington, D.C. - November 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today released its September Refinance Report, which shows that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans refinanced through the Home Affordable Refinance Progr...
HUD CHARGES OWNER, ARCHITECT, BUILDER AND DESIGNERS OF MISSOURI CONDOMINIUM COMPLEX WITH DISCRIMINATING AGAINST...
Kansas City, KS - November 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced today that it has charged the owner, architect, builder and designers of Valle Creek Condominiums in Pevely, Missouri with vi...
Pending Home Sales Rise in October to Highest Level in Over Five Years
WASHINGTON, DC - November 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Pending home sales rose strongly in October with mixed regional results, according to the National Association of Realtors
Federal Housing Finance Agency Reports Mortgage Interest Rates
Washington, DC - November 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today reported that the National Average Contract Mortgage Rate for the Purchase of Previously Occupied Homes by Combined Lenders, used as an index in so...
HUD ANNOUNCES DEAL TO REFINANCE MORTGAGE LOAN FOR NEW YORK CITY COOPERATIVE
WASHINGTON, DC - November 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced a $621 million deal to refinance a previous mortgage at Co-op City, a large cooperative housing community that is ...
MassHousing Executive Director Thomas R. Gleason Elected to Board of Directors of National Council...
BOSTON, MA - November 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- MassHousing Executive Director Thomas R. Gleason has been elected Vice President of the Board of Directors of the National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA).
MassHousing Awards $150,000 for Affordable Sober Housing in Worcester
BOSTON, MA - November 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- MassHousing has awarded $150,000 in financing to help create 27 new units of affordable sober housing in Worcester.
Himes to Hold Post-Sandy Assistance Info Session Saturday
WASHINGTON, DC - November 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- On Saturday, December 1, Congressman Jim Himes (CT-4) will hold an information session where representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Small Business Administrat...
Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey
WASHINGTON, D.C. - November 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mortgage applications decreased 0.9 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending Nove...
Lt. Governor, lawmakers offer plan to reform personal property tax
LANSING, MI - November 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- A plan to keep Michigan's economy driving forward by reforming the burdensome personal property tax was outlined today by Lt. Gov. Brian Calley, Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville and House S...
HUD SECRETARY ANNOUNCES FORECLOSURE PROTECTION FOR DISPLACED WEST VIRGINIA STORM VICTIMS
WASHINGTON, DC - November 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to the State of West Virginia in addition to resources being provided by FEMA...
Pace of New-Home Sales Virtually Unchanged in October
WASHINGTON, D.C. - November 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Sales of newly built, single-family homes in October held virtually unchanged from a downwardly revised pace in the previous month, at a seasonally adjusted, annual rate of 368,000 units, accor...
Decrease in Overall Debt Balance Continues Despite Rise in Non-Real Estate Debt
NEW YORK, NY - November 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- In its latest Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced that in the third quarter, non-real estate household debt jumped 2.3 percent to $2.7 tril...
CONVERSION OF FORMER WILLISTON JUNIOR HIGH TO SENIOR APARTMENTS BEGINS
WILLISTON, ND - November 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lutheran Social Services Housing, Enterprise Community Investment, Inc. and the North Dakota Housing Finance Agency (NDHFA) hosted a ceremonial ground breaking at the former Williston Junior High ...
Working Landscape Enterprise Board Announces the Release of $986,500 in Available Grant Funds
November 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Announcement will take place on Thursday, November 29, 2012, 12:30 – 12:55 p.m. at the “Financing the Working Landscape conference”, sponsored by the National Bank of Middlebury, People’s United Bank, the...
Salazar Finalizes Reforms to Streamline Leasing, Spur Economic Development on 56 Million Acres of...
WASHINGTON, DC - November 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- As part of President Obama’s commitment to empower tribal nations and strengthen their economies, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Kevin K. Washb...
MADIGAN CALLS ON FANNIE, FREDDIE TO ABANDON HIGHER FEES ON ILLINOIS HOMEOWNERS
Chicago, IL - November 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Lisa Madigan has sent a letter to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), demanding the agency abandon a proposal that would unfairly penalize Illinois borrowers by tacking highe...
