Press Releases

Transactions include more than 100,000 square feet in new leases and renewals. Washington, D.C. - August 10, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Leasing activity in Duke Realty Corporation’s (Duke Realty) Washington, D.C. office continued to be strong in the second quarter, with the group reporting more than 100,000 square feet in new leases and renewals.

EUGENE, OR - August 9, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Washington DC real estate agent Jack Shoptaw has adopted the dynamic IDX Broker software. Shoptaw has continuously demonstrated his passion for delivering home seekers with the right property, and now his professional website reflects the same thing. The easy-to-use IDX solution pulls raw listings data directly from the Metropolitan Regional Information Systems (MRIS) database and displays it seamlessly on his website

August 9, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Villaraigosa today launched a massive canvassing operation to reach over 2,000 families of students enrolled in Markham Middle School and other Partnership Schools. The Mayor welcomed students and their parents to the Partnership community and spoke with them about supporting student achievement by becoming more involved in local neighborhood schools

Denver, CO - August 9, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Global franchise real estate leader, RE/MAX, LLC, is hosting its annual Broker Owner Conference in Denver, CO, this week, August 8-10, with nearly a thousand attendees from 12 different countries. Featured presentations will be made by the industry’s top analysts.

LOS ANGELES, CA - August 9, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- National real estate law firm Pircher, Nichols & Meeks has hired Melissa Bakewell as a lateral litigation associate within its Los Angeles office. In her new position, she will focus on all aspects of real estate and general commercial litigation.

SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA - August 9, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee & Associates Central Coast has secured the main anchor tenant for the Prefumo Creek Commons shopping center in San Luis Obispo

New York, NY - August 9, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- West 147th Associates LLC and Halstead Property Development Marketing today announced that TCO was received last week, construction is now complete and move-ins are slated for later this month, a former school converted into a luxury condominium development in Harlem.

New York, NY - August 9, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Most disasters, by their very nature, are unforeseen and can happen anytime, anywhere, at a moment’s notice, from wind, water, vandalism, fire to terrorism. Reaction time is critical and can mean the difference between preventing further destruction or easily reclaiming damaged property and possessions after disaster strikes. It is important that property owners and business owners know what to do when disaster strikes. Here is a list that every property owner and business owner should have:

EUGENE, OR - August 6, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Doug Stephens has teamed up with IDX, Inc. to create an easy-to-use and effective real estate search page. The real estate website of Stephens now boasts the revolutionary IDX Broker software, syncing his listings with the Lawrence MLS, to deliver home seekers around Lawrence, Kansas with the most comprehensive property search process available online. The addition of the custom IDX solution only reinforces his dedication to quickly matching potential buyers with homes and serving them in the best ways possible as a real estate broker and agent

EUGENE, OR - August 6, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. is pleased to welcome Michael Gonzalez, of ERA Evergreen Real Estate Company in Hilton Head, South Carolina, to the growing group of real estate brokers and agents dedicated to making their professional websites easier to use and more effective, with a customized IDX solution. Now, his website offers home seekers numerous resources to speed up and simplify the online home search process. A real estate blog keeps potential buyers up-to-date with market trends and news, in addition to the IDX Broker software, which syncs Hilton Head MLS (HHMLS) listings directly with the website of Gonzalez, to give his clients a comprehensive database of listings to search through

EMERYVILLE, CA - August 6, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- The number of price-reduced homes on the market increased 5.3 percent in July as compared to June, according to a monthly review of MLS-listed properties within 26 of the country’s largest housing markets conducted by the national online real estate brokerage ZipRealty (www.ziprealty.com; NASDAQ: ZIPR)

Albuquerque, NM - August 6, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Canyon Gate Real Estate Services, an Associa company, is excited to announce that Director of Business Development and Community Manager Evelyn Saavedra recently received her Professional Community Association Manager (PCAM) designation through Community Associations Institute (CAI).

EUGENE, OR - August 5, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Philip Lancaster of Rock Point Real Estate has teamed up with IDX, Inc. to update his professional website with a customized IDX solution, pulling Chattanooga MLS (CHTMLS) listing data from the system and displaying it directly on his website. The IDX Broker software now employed on his site, gives potential buyers more information about properties than ever before available online. Now, home seekers in Chattanooga, Tennessee have a simple online solution to search for a home.

EUGENE, OR - August 5, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Long Branch, New Jersey real estate agent Bonnie Levy has adopted the IDX, Inc. dynamic IDX Broker software for her professional website, giving her an advantage over her competition and their real estate websites. With the addition of a customized IDX solution, the website of Levy syncs Monmouth Ocean MLS (MOMLS) with her properties to display the most comprehensive online property database around. Finding a home at the Jersey shore is easier than ever, thanks to the her IDX enabled website.

Houston, TX - August 5, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- ATP Oil & Gas Corporation (NASDAQ: ATPG) has renewed its office lease of 29,348 square feet at 4600 Post Oak Place, which is situated just one mile from Houston's Galleria Shopping Center.

West Hartford, CT - August 5, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Connecticut Real Estate Investors Association, or CT REIA, in association with Mark Klee and Caryn McKinney, is announcing the CT REIA August 2010 monthly Connecticut real estate investors meeting. This event will take place on Monday, August 16, from 5:30pm to 9:00pm, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on 100 Berlin Road in Cromwell, CT. This event is free for CT REIA members, and $30 for non-members.

August 4, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- "The new space will provide the Asian American Lawyers Association (AALAM) with a place to call home. Equally important, it will go a long way toward fostering ever closer relationships between AALAM, other affinity bar organizations, and the BBA for the benefit of the members that we serve.

ANCHORAGE, AK - August 4, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary Sandra B. Henriquez joined Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan today to celebrate the grand opening of Eklutna Estates, the newest senior housing development of the Cook Inlet Housing Authority (CIHA). The housing authority used $3.2 million of the $5.7 million it received from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to construct the new housing.

Detroit, MI - August 4, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Quicken Loans Inc. Chairman and Founder Dan Gilbert today announced that Quizzle LLC will be joining Quicken Loans when it moves to Detroit’s Compuware building later this month. Quizzle (www.quizzle.com), which has more than 500,000 registered users, is a free online tool that helps consumers better manage their personal finances.

Las Vegas, NV - August 4, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Ron Opfer, Director of Commercial Real Estate Special Asset Solutions with Coldwell Banker Premier Realty, was chosen for the second time in as many years to represent The Small Business Administration (SBA) in the sale of another commercial property. The asset is a one-story office building of approximately 7,760 square feet, located at 145 Panama Street, Henderson, Clark County, Nevada (89015)

Atlanta, GA - August 4, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- August 2010 Georgia Realtor® focus much-deserved attention on the way women talk; to themselves and to other women in a new book titled Thoughts Influence Power Snippets™ (TIPSs). The book takes readers on a special journey appreciating their strengths, improving weaknesses and loving all their tendencies using 8 powerful and dynamic tools known as Snippets

EUGENE, OR - August 3, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Paul Martin of Keller Williams Coastal Realty has adopted the innovative IDX Broker software to sync his real estate website with Northern New England Real Estate Network (NNEREN) listings. His focus on online marketing of his properties gives his clients a unique perspective and a rich database of NNEREN properties to search through. Now, potential buyers around Portsmouth, New Hampshire can access thousands of property listings from the convenience of his thorough real estate website.

EUGENE, OR - August 3, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. is pleased to welcome Andrew Nowak and Power South Realty to the growing group of real estate professionals proving their dedication to customer service by updating their realty websites with a customizable IDX solution. Now, thanks to theaddition of IDX Broker software on the website of Nowak, home seekers in Fort Lauderdale, Florida can search through thousands of South Broward MLS (SouthBroward) listings conveniently on his search page. The innovative technology of IDX Broker automatically syncs SouthBroward listings with his page and updates the listing information with up-to-the-minute price fluctuations, and listing changes. Never before has there been such a comprehensive property search tool available online

Lithonia, GA - August 3, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Georgia Realtor focus much-deserved attention on the way women talk; to themselves and to other women in a new book titled "Thoughts Influence Power Snippets (TIPSs).

Houston, TX - August 3, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Al Green (TX-09) accompanied Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Shaun Donovan, as he visited Houston to take a first-hand look at the successful results of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) in the fourth largest city in the United States.

Birmingham, MI - August 3, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Kandu Capital, LLC, along with its operating company, Bloomfield Senior Living, announced the acquisition of 2 new senior living communities in Indiana on August 1, 2010. This is Kandu’s third and fourth transaction in the past 7 months as it continues to expand its diversified, growing portfolio of Independent and Assisted Living, Alzheimer’s & Dementia Care and Skilled Nursing facilities throughout the United States.

Arlington, VA - August 2, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- HouseFax™ LLC. officially launches service to provide detailed information about nearly every property in the United States to include over 145 million residential and commercial property records, nationwide zip level neighborhood demographics, detailed school information, crime statistics, and over 20 million known and potential environmental risk issues to businesses and consumers over the internet.

Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA - August 2, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- It was emergencies, disasters and unfortunate situations that produced the Disaster Response Industry. It also was these same things that produced the Insurance industry, and since the beginning of both industries there has been a dark shroud surrounding both filled with greed, ambulance chasing and misinformation.

August 2, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- In a study released Thursday, the Center for an Urban Future (CUF) embraced the concept of an open-air market under the Metro North tracks on Park Avenue from 111th Street to 133rd Street conceived and developed by Harlem Community Development Corporation (HCDC). HCDC’s La Marqueta Mile plan would work with a range of community, business and public entities to revitalize and extend the old La Marqueta from 111th to 116th streets into a broader vision to suit today’s times. Center for an Urban Future went so far as to call the plan “A High Line for Harlem.”

ANAHEIM, CA - August 2, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Eleven of the top experts in community association management in California were presented with Vision Awards by the California Association of Community Managers (CACM) at last night’s awards ceremony. The awards were presented to professionals from around the state for their outstanding expertise in homeowner association management.