California RealEstateRama

Washington, DC - June 25, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) is pleased to announce $1,883,606 in federal grants to provide Los Angeles-area homeless veterans with job training and placement assistance to help them succeed in civilian careers. The grants are being awarded under the U.S. Department of Labor’s Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program.

Los Angeles, CA - June 24, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa joined by Councilwoman Janice Hahn, Police Commission President John Mack, Chief Charlie Beck, Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) President and CEO Rudolf Montiel and community leaders, today announced the expansion of safety cameras to the Jordan Downs, Nickerson Gardens, Imperial Courts and Ramona Gardens public housing developments.“Safety cameras have proven to be a powerful law enforcement tool to deter crime,” said Mayor Villaraigosa. “The expansion of the safety cameras will help assure our police department has the resources it needs to secure our families and communities.

Los Angeles, CA - June 18, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today celebrated the Grand Opening and building dedication of the Charles Cobb Apartments- a 76 unit permanent supportive housing development for formerly homeless and disabled men and women.

EUGENE, OR - June 14, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Kirby Nicol, CEO of Capitola Realty, has partnered with IDX, Inc. to revolutionize his professional website, bringing potential home buyers in Capitola, California the most comprehensive search available online. Through the MLSListings database, Nicol's clients can access thousands of coastal California listings from the convenience of Nicol's own website. Never before has searching for a home online been easier for both agents and potential buyers.

WASHINGTON, D.C - June 14, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-Sacramento) voted to help families realize the dream of homeownership, save taxpayers money, and protect Americans from mortgage fraud by passing H.R. 5072, legislation that institutes reforms to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). The Federal Housing Administration Reform Act is part of a larger commitment of Rep. Matsui and her colleagues to provide working Americans and small businesses in Sacramento with the tools to drive our economic recovery.

EUGENE, OR - June 8, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Prudential California Realty's Forrest O'Connor and IDX, Inc. have collaborated to give Los Angeles area home seekers the most comprehensive real estate website around. Combined LA-Westside MLS (CLAW) listings sync directly with the search tool IDX Broker software provides on O'Connor's website to display properties in Silver Lake and the surrounding areas. Searching for a home online has never been easier for real estate professionals, like O'Connor, and potential home buyers. The addition of IDX Broker software has simplified O'Connor's real estate website and made his online business easier to manage.

EUGENE, OR - June 7, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Realty One Group of California has partnered with IDX, Inc. to apply IDX Broker software onto their real estate website. CEO Joseph Scrofani can now manage and display his listings along side the California Real Estate Tech Service (CARETS) listings to bring thousands of Laguna Niguel area properties together in one place. The comprehensive listing data now brings potential home buyer the most up-to-the-minute details right to the home seeker, with the ease and efficiency of never leaving Scrofani's website.

SACRAMENTO, CA - June 7, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congresswoman Doris O. Matsui (D-Sacramento) today announced that Sacramento County will receive $650,637 this year from the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) Program. This amount represents a 14-percent increase over last year’s funding for the VASH Program, which makes vouchers available for Sacramento-area displaced veterans and their families. Funds will be available through the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency (SHRA).

WASHINGTON, DC - June 7, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congresswoman Laura Richardson announced a grant of $881,808 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) has been awarded to the Long Beach Housing Authority to assist homeless U.S. veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

EUGENE, OR - June 3, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jehns Real Estate professional, Serge Santos, has chosen to employ IDX, Inc. to simplify and improve the search options and capabilities on his real estate website. Through the Bay Area Real Estate Info Service (BAREIS) listings, Santos' website is constantly updated with a plethora of property listings, thanks to the integrated IDX solution that extracts raw listing data from BAREIS and displays it directly on Santos' search page for his clients' convenience

Irvine, CA - June 1, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- In 1990, Jamboree Housing Corporation began in Irvine with just four homes, and one dream: to build quality housing that people could afford. Today more than 16,000 residents in dozens of communities across California call a Jamboree property home

EUGENE, OR - May 31, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) - Jehns Real Estate professional, Serge Santos, has chosen to employ IDX, Inc. to simplify and improve the search options and capabilities on his real estate website. Through the Bay Area Real Estate Info Service (BAREIS) listings, Santos' website is constantly updated with a plethora of property listings, thanks to the integrated IDX solution that extracts raw listing data from BAREIS and displays it directly on Santos' search page for his clients' convenience.

EUGENE, OR - May 31, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) - IDX, Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of Sevan Sean Baroni to the ever-expanding number of real estate agents and brokers who have updated their professional websites with the revolutionary IDX Broker software. The California Real Estate Tech Services (CARETS) listings display instantly on Baroni's website, giving his potential clients the most comprehensive search available online.

May 31, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today celebrated the Grand Opening of the Manchester- a senior public housing community in South Los Angeles."One of my highest priorities is to increase our City's supply of affordable housing," said Mayor Villaraigosa. "And today, we're putting words into action."

SACRAMENTO, CA - May 24, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- After three straight months of gains, total housing starts in California dipped slightly in April, but year-to-date totals were still above 2009, the California Building Industry Association announced today

Washington, DC - May 24, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Representatives from more than a dozen mortgage servicers plus several local HUD-approved housing counselors were on hand last week in Anaheim and San Bernardino, California to assist struggling homeowners with their mortgages

LOS ANGELES, CA - May 20, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that nine men engaged in a Southern California boiler room, tricked out in high-roller style with a roulette wheel and other casino equipment, have been charged with 97 criminal counts for stealing at least $2.3 million from more than 1,500 desperate homeowners who were promised loan modifications but received no relief.

May 18, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Long Beach residents can learn how federal Housing and Urban Development money is spent in their neighborhood by attending the Anaheim Street Community Police Center's monthly meeting on Tuesday, May 18, from 5:00 to 6:30 pm at the Mark Twain Neighborhood Library Community Room, 1401 E. Anaheim St.

May 13, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- As HACLA works with our project partners to redevelop the Jordan Downs public housing in the Watts neighborhood of South Los Angeles, we continue to seek out expert advice and contribution from the brightest minds in the area of real estate development. One of the key questions – how can we redevelop the area in order to make public transportation convenient and accessible for our residents.

San Francisco, CA - May 13, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Redfin today released new data on the San Francisco Bay Area market showing that the median price of a Bay Area single-family home increased 5.5% from March to April. In Marin County, prices for single-family homes jumped 10% in one month, aided by lower interest rates for jumbo loans. Santa Clara County house prices increased 7% month over month and 33% year over year, driven by a shrinking supply of bank-owned properties. House prices in Alameda, San Francisco and San Mateo counties grew by between 1% and 2% month over month

SACRAMENTO, CA - May 10, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Jake Weathers, 34, Elk Grove, Glenn Watkins, 40, Elk Grove, Kevin Watkins, 25, Elk Grove, Frederick Davis, 40, Elk Grove, and Paul Yearby Jr., 29, of Fair Oaks, with 11 counts of mail fraud relating to their alleged operation of a mortgage fraud scheme that involved the defendants changing their names to Muslim names in order to obtain new credit and to conceal poor credit histories and other liabilities in their birth names.

EUGENE, OR - May 7, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Frank Howard Allen agent Bridget Cooper has teamed up with IDX, Inc. and the IDX Broker software to create an easy-to-use real estate website for home seekers in and around Marin County. The Internet Data Exchange (IDX) technology gives both real estate agents and brokers, as well as potential home buyers, the freedom to explore online property listings on their own terms when searching for a home. Customizable IDX solutions give real estate professionals license to control their personal websites and better manage their clients all from their own computer or iPhone.

May 5, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- This Friday, May 7, 2010 Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) will host a Combat Fraud Forum at the Cypress Community Center located at 5700 Orange Avenue from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Attendees will obtain information on identity theft, mortgage loans and lending, investment scams, charity fraud, Medicare fraud and more

EUGENE, OR - May 4, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. happily welcomes today, Rod Aragon with Keller Williams Realty in Pacific Palisades, California, to the growing list of elite rank real estate professionals choosing to incorporate a custom IDX solution into the search functionality of their websites. With this new addition, Aragon can now provide his clients with the ability to sift through a multitude of property listings within his local Multiple Listing Service (MLS), the California Real Estate Technology Services MLS (CARETS). Home seekers will be accessing the most up-to-date and current real estate listing information on the Southern California market, by displaying the IDX/MLS data feed on their own personal computers

Preserving long-term affordability supports commitment to improve community for residents WHO: Jamboree Housing Corporation, a leading nonprofit housing developer in CA

SACRAMENTO, CA - May 3, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- The homebuyer tax credit signed into law earlier this year by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be available beginning Saturday, May 1. Governor Schwarzenegger in March signed into law AB 183 by Assembly Member Ana Caballero, D-Salinas, and co-authored by Senator Roy Ashburn, R-Bakersfield, which establishes a tax credit of $10,000 or 5 percent of the purchase price of a newly built home and a $10,000 tax credit for first-time purchasers of existing homes. The credit will be available beginning May 1 and be good through December 31, 2010, or when funding is exhausted, whichever comes first. The $200 million allocated for the program is split evenly with $100 million going to purchasers of new homes and $100 million going to first-time buyers of existing homes

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 3, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today presented over $2.2 million to several fair housing organizations to help fight housing discrimination in Northern California. John Trasviña, HUD's Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, made the grant presentations to Bay Area Legal, California Rural Legal Assistance, Fair Housing of Marin, Greater Napa Fair Housing Center, Housing and Economic Rights Advocates, Project Sentinel, Pacific News Media and Fair Housing Council of Central California (see attached list below for project descriptions).

EUGENE, OR - April 30, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- As a representative of buyers in the Clovis, California area, broker Karin Kos has joined with IDX, Inc. to give her clients the best and quickest online property search, by granting them access to their local area Multiple Listing Service (MLS) listings. The Fresno MLS (Fresno), which Kos is a member of, hosts thousands of listed properties. Thanks to Kos' new website and the use of IDX Broker software, she displays a wide variety of homes directly onto her web pages

April 28, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- On Friday, May 7, 2010 Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) will host a Combat Fraud Forum at the Cypress Community Center located at 5700 Cypress Avenue from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Attendees will obtain information on identity theft, mortgage loans and lending, investment scams, charity fraud, Medicare fraud and more

EUGENE, OR - April 27, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- The IDX, Inc. team eagerly announces today its newest client addition, Doyle Properties very own Scott Doyle of La Quinta, California, to the constantly growing database of real estate agents and brokers choosing to upgrade, enhance and modernize the search functions of their websites, with the incorporation of a custom IDX solution. This innovative and one-of-a-kind Internet Data Exchange (IDX) technology works by extracting raw data from the Desert MLS (DTMLS), and then formats and transfers the information to indistinguishably match Doyle's already existing page preferences and specifications, enabling home seekers to execute the most simplistic, efficient and convenient real estate search on the web.