Pennsylvania RealEstateRama
An opportunity to showcase your organizations hard work in vacant property strategy
Philadelphia - January 21, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Center for Community Progress is pleased to announce the selection of Philadelphia as the host city for the fifth national Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference. The conference, to be held Sep...
Endorse funding the National Housing Trust Fund by supporting reforms to mortgage interest deduction
January 18, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The National Low Income Housing Coalition proposes to modify the current mortgage interest tax break by reducing the size of a mortgage eligible for a tax break to $500,000, and to convert the deduction to a 15-20...
PA Treasurer Rob McCord: This Holiday, an Elf and a Snowman Have Unclaimed Property...
Harrisburg - December 21, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- This holiday season, whether you are Ellen Naughty from Canonsburg or Samuel Nice of Tamaqua, the Pennsylvania Treasury could have unclaimed property waiting for you, State Treasurer Rob McCord said ...
PHFA announces 2012 PHARE and Marcellus Shale funding recipients
HARRISBURG - December 18, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency on Thursday approved the recipients of funding for projects to improve the availability and affordability of housing in the Marcellus...
PA HUD, VA Homeless Vets Team Honored with Housing Hero Award
Harrisburg, PA - December 7, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Pennsylvania HUD and VA Homeless Veterans Collaboration Team, which have established a unique, efficient and effective collaboration focused on eliminating veterans’ homeless in Pennsylvania...
Job Opening: Director of Affordable Homeownership Initiatives – Washington, DC
November 21, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- CFED is a 33-year-old national nonprofit with a mission of empowering low- and moderate-income households to build and preserve assets by advancing policies and programs that help them achieve the American Dream,...
PHFA executive director elected president of National Council of State Housing Agencies
HARRISBURG - October 26, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Brian A. Hudson Sr., executive director and CEO of the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency, has been elected president of the National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA). He will serve for two ...
Qualified PA borrowers who lost homes to foreclosure to receive notice; may be eligible...
HARRISBURG - September 25, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Linda Kelly today announced that official notifications are being sent to approximately 29,000 Pennsylvania borrowers who lost their homes to foreclosure between January 1, 2008 and...
Treasurer McCord: See If Loved Ones Are Owed Unclaimed Property this ‘Grandparents Day’
Harrisburg - September 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- This Grandparents Day, State Treasurer Rob McCord encouraged Pennsylvanians to take a moment and search to see whether their loved ones are owed a portion of $1.9 billion in unclaimed property. A fr...
Governor Corbett Announces Re-Start of Homeowners’ Emergency Mortgage Assistance Program
Harrisburg - August 9, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Governor Tom Corbett today announced that Pennsylvania has received the $66.5 million cash portion of the previously announced $25 billion state-federal settlement with the nation’s five largest mortg...
Funds are now available to address the housing impact of Marcellus Shale drilling
HARRISBURG - August 8, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for projects to improve the availability and affordability of housing in the Marcellus Shale region of the state.
PHFA accepting proposals for use of PHARE and Marcellus Shale funding to improve housing...
HARRISBURG - August 1, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency is issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) today for projects to improve the availability and affordability of housing in the Marcellus Shale region of the state.
PA Treasury to Mail 40,000 Letters to Potential Owners of New Unclaimed Property, Says...
Harrisburg - July 17, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Residents who find a letter from the Pennsylvania Treasury in their mailboxes in coming weeks may be entitled to unclaimed property, State Treasurer McCord noted today as his department prepares to send ...
Treasurer McCord Says Nearly $238 Million in Property Tax, Rent Rebates to be Issued...
Harrisburg - July 2, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Older Pennsylvanians, widows and widowers, and people with disabilities who are expecting a state property tax or rent rebate should receive that payment next week, according to State Treasurer Rob McCord...
PA Treasurer McCord Returns Over $49,000 in Unclaimed Property to Montgomery County to Support...
Norristown - June 21, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Local officials across the Commonwealth, faced with a greater demand for services as state funding declines, should check to see if their governments may be owed unclaimed property, Pennsylvania Treasure...
President of Real Estate Loan Company Sentenced to 55 Months in Prison, Ordered to...
PITTSBURGH - June 14, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court to 55 months of incarceration on his conviction of wire fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.