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Housing Affordability Index to Set Annual Record for 2012
WASHINGTON, DC - January 09, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- With 11 months of data reported, 2012 will clearly go down as a record year for favorable housing affordability conditions, and a great year for buyers who could get a mortgage, according to the N...
HUD sets 2013 Rent & Income Limits for Section 8 and Low-Income Housing Tax...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 08, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Housing and Economic Recovery Act (HERA) of 2008 made statutory changes to how income limits are calculated for LIHTC and bond-financed properties. HERA protected owners from rent decreas...
Tom Bermingham Joins USAA Real Estate Company’s Northeast U.S. Office as Managing Director, Investments
San Antonio, TX - January 08, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- USAA Real Estate Co. is pleased to welcome Thomas V. Bermingham as managing director of investments, overseeing acquisition, development and joint venture opportunities for USAA Real Estate Co.
NREL to Help Convert Methane to Liquid Diesel
WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 04, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will help develop microbes that convert methane found in natural gas into liquid diesel fuel, a novel approach...
CRIMSON REAL ESTATE FUND AND USAA REAL ESTATE COMPANY ANNOUNCE BUILD-TO-SUIT FOR TGS
Houston, TX - January 03, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Crimson Real Estate Fund, L.P. (CREF), and its co-investment partner, USAA Real Estate Company, have acquired eight acres of land in west Houston to build a new headquarters for TGS-Nopec Geophysical...
Housing and Urban Development and Census Bureau Expand Access to Detailed Information on Nation’s...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 03, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Nearly 20 percent of recent movers identified “convenience to job” as the most important factor in their choice of neighborhood in 2011, according to the American Housing Survey, the definit...
Lawyers’ Committee Files Suit on Behalf of Distressed Homeowners who Lost Thousands to Alleged...
New York, NY - December 21, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers' Committee) and pro bono counsel McDermott Will & Emery LLP (McDermott) filed a lawsuit, Culliver et al. v. Alarcon Law Group, P.C. et...
SLOW ECONOMIC RECOVERY KEEPS PRESSURE ON U.S. CITIES’ EMERGENCY FOOD AND SHELTER SERVICES
Washington, D.C. - December 21, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- A survey report issued just days before the threatened sequestration of federal funding forecasts the need for more, not less, spending in the year ahead to support of growing numbers of hung...
TENANTS CALL ON CONGRESS AND SENATE TO SAVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN FISCAL CLIFF NEGOTIATIONS
NEW YORK, NY - December 20, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, the New York State Tenants & Neighbors Coalition joined a group of low-income tenants who live in government-subsidized affordable housing in New York State in sending over 1,000 postcar...
Elizabeth Arden Spas Sets Up Offi ce in Downtown Tempe With 11-Year Lease
TEMPE, AZ - December 18, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Elizabeth Arden Spas has signed an 134-month, 13,021 SF lease at Tempe Gateway, 222 S. Mill Ave. in Downtown Tempe to serve as their retail operations hub for the U.S.
Report: Millions of Renters at Risk of Eviction and Homelessness
WASHINGTON, D.C. - December 17, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty released a report showing that, for many low-income renters, the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act is all that stands between housing...
NREL Employees and Managing Partner Pledge $500,000 to Aid Area Charities
WASHINGTON, D.C. - December 14, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The employees of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, have pledged more than $500,000 to support local charities during the lab’s annu...
JOHNSON STATEMENT ON RENTAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE HEARING
WASHINGTON, DC - December 12, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson (D-SD) held a hearing on the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s rental housing assistance programs. The Committee heard from HUD ...
VA’s National Director for Homeless Programs Wins Award
WASHINGTON, DC - December 12, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lisa M. Pape, the national director, Veterans Health Administration (VHA) homeless programs within the Department of Veterans Affairs, has been named recipient of the 2012 Knee – Wittman Awar...
VA Also Announces $300 Million to Expand Homeless Prevention Program
WASHINGTON, DC - December 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced that a new national report shows that homelessness among Veterans has been reduced by approximately 7 ...
Seven Things All Homeowners Should Know About Their Homeowners Insurance Policies
Washington, D.C. - December 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Reviewing a homeowners’ insurance policy can be challenging, but with more insurers inserting provisions to shift risk and costs to homeowners, a careful read is more important than ever. To...
ConsensusDocs To Offer Package of Select Contract Documents for Free
WASHINGTON, DC - December 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- ConsensusDocs is making available a new free package of standard contract documents to make the design and construction bidding process easier for all involved parties. The contract document coal...
MAYOR BLOOMBERG, HUD SECRETARY DONOVAN AND REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY GROUPS ANNOUNCE THE LAUNCH OF...
New York, NY - December 7, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Mathew M. Wambua, ...
Long Branch Business League Holds first ever “Discover Long Branch!” event: More to...
Silver Spring, MD - December 7, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- If you were driving down Flower Avenue Monday evening and, ever since, have been fearing for your sanity, put your mind at ease: that really was an eight-foot tall tricycle moving down the side...
Rebuilding Together Elects Five New Members to Their National Board of Directors
Washington, D.C. - December 7, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rebuilding Together has elected Carrie Petty, Mary Busey Harris, Meredith Rosenberg, Jane Eskelund, and Sherry Chris to their National Board of Directors in Washington, D.C.
As Senate Committee Holds Hearing on FHA Fiscal Problems, Bipartisan House Bill Waits for...
Washington, DC - December 7, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- As the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee meets today for a hearing on the fiscal challenges facing the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), bipartisan legislation approved 402-7...
Home Price Indexes Provide Detail on Regional Housing Market
New York, NY - December 3, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The New York Fed today released a new interactive tool that provides data on the state of the housing market recovery in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Justice Department Settles Lawsuit Against Wisconsin Landlord and Former Manager for Discriminating on the...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - November 30, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Justice Department announced today that the manager and owner of the Geneva Terrace Apartments Inc. in La Crosse, Wis., have agreed to pay $57,500 to settle a lawsuit alleging they violated...
In Wake of Superstorm Sandy, New York Should Protect Consumers from Reduced or Denied...
Washington D.C. - November 30, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- In response to Governor Cuomo’s request for strategies to ensure that the State of New York is resilient in the face of future natural disasters, the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) calle...
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...
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...
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...
Community-shared solar webinar: 11/28 with Erica Schroeder & Rich Swope
WASHINGTON, D.C. - November 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Community-shared solar can allow individuals and organizations unable to take advantage of on-site renewable generation to participate in distributed generation and support the development of r...
Homeownership Preservation Foundation Announces Sanjeev Handa Elected Chairman of Board of Directors
WASHINGTON, D.C. - November 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Homeownership Preservation Foundation (HPF), an independent national nonprofit dedicated to helping distressed homeowners navigate financial challenges and avoid mortgage foreclosure throug...
A.G. Schneiderman Sues Credit Suisse For Fraudulent Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities
NEW YORK, NY - November 21, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today filed a Martin Act complaint against Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and its affiliates for making fraudulent misrepresentations and omissions to prom...