Press Releases

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

EUGENE, OR - April 30, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. is pleased to welcome the newest addition, Darren Bouley with Silver Coast Properties, to the growing number of real estate professionals creating an easy-to-use online property search experience for their clients. IDX Broker allows Bouley to display Brunswick County MLS (BRWC) listings right on his personal professional website. Customizable searches help potential home buyers find the property of their dreams on Bouley's website. Never before has it been easier to find the perfect home online

EUGENE, OR - April 30, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Warren, New Jersey Realtor Nicholas Welsh, of Weichert Realtors, has made the bold decision to team with IDX, Inc. to deliver potential home buyers in the North Jersey area, a well-rounded online property search website. Through both Garden State-Agent MLS (GSMLS-A) listings and Welsh's own properties, home seekers in the area can now experience the best home buying process around, with thousands of potential properties displayed on the convenience of Welsh's website.

EUGENE, OR - April 30, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- The IDX, Inc. team eagerly announces today, the addition of Diane Sonenson with The Keyes Company Realtors in Boynton Beach, Florida, to their quickly growing network of real estate agents and brokers using their primary software application, IDX Broker. This one-of-a-kind search tool addition provides Sonenson with the ability to instantly and directly link potential home buyers to a valuable Multiple Listing Service (MLS) search tool, which connects them with a multitude of the most current and up-to-date property listings on her local MLS, the Palm Beach Regional MLS (RMLSFL)

EUGENE, OR - April 30, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Coldwell Banker Wardley team and Realtor Jeslie Jeffry joined the expanding niche of real estate professionals enhancing their websites with a custom IDX solution. Greater Las Vegas MLS (GLAVR) properties can now be displayed on Jeffry's own website, making the search process easier and more efficient for potential home buyers. Customizable IDX solutions extract GLVAR raw listing data and seamlessly integrate it with Jeffry's own listings. This not only makes Jeffry's job easier, it also allows her clients and other home seekers to access an abundance of properties in the Las Vegas, Nevada area

EUGENE, OR - April 30, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- With the help of IDX, Inc.'s IDX Broker software, Better Properties Brokerage and Ben Winfield have joined the large group of real estate agents and brokers that have chosen to update the functionality and look of their website. Through the Internet Data Exchange (IDX) technology, agents and brokers can create a customized real estate website from the convenience of their personal computer or iPhone. Today, potential home buyers in the suburbs of Vancouver, Washington can find the perfect home, thanks to Winfield's new website. As a member of the Regional Multiple Listing Service (RMLS), Winfield has long had access to the listing information for thousands of properties, but with the help of IDX Broker software, all of Winfield's clients will now have access to the RMLS listings as well, when browsing the Better Properties Brokerage site

WASHINGTON, DC - April 30, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Obama Administration is authorized to play a more active and supportive role in progressing the energy efficiency and sustainability of America’s multifamily and commercial building stock, according to a report released today by the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and other leading organizations in energy, housing, environment and real estate.The legal analysis, “Using Executive Authority to Achieve Greener Buildings: A Guide for Policymakers to Enhance Sustainability and Efficiency in Multifamily Housing and Commercial Buildings,” concludes that under current executive authority, the Obama Administration has the ability to use more than 30 existing federal programs worth $72 billion to enhance efficiency in commercial buildings and multifamily housing, with no new legislation

McLean, VA - April 30, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) today issued the company's Monthly Volume Summary for March 2010. The summary, available on the company's Web site at www.FreddieMac.com/investors/volsum, provides information on Freddie Mac's mortgage-related portfolios, securities issuance, risk management and delinquencies, including data on seriously delinquent mortgage loans in related mortgage Participation Certificate (PC) pools.

Atlanta, GA - April 29, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Prudential Georgia Realty’s new Buckhead office, located at 3221 Peachtree Road, just south of thePeachtree and Piedmont Road intersection, continues to add to its agent salesteam. Steve Kesler is the latest to join, coming to the company with 25 yearsexperience in commercial real estate, including offices, retail, restaurantsand lease restructuring.

Atlanta, GA - April 29, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Prudential Georgia Realty’s new Buckhead office, located at 3221 Peachtree Road, just south of thePeachtree and Piedmont Road intersection, continues to add to its agent salesteam. Steve Kesler is the latest to join, coming to the company with 25 yearsexperience in commercial real estate, including offices, retail, restaurantsand lease restructuring.

Atlanta, GA - April 29, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Prudential Georgia Realty’s new Buckhead office, located at 3221 Peachtree Road, just south of thePeachtree and Piedmont Road intersection, continues to add to its agent salesteam. Steve Kesler is the latest to join, coming to the company with 25 yearsexperience in commercial real estate, including offices, retail, restaurantsand lease restructuring.

EUGENE, OR - April 29, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. happily welcomes today, their newest client addition, Alan Savage of Naperville, Illinois, in joining the continuously growing network of real estate agents and brokers opting to improve, enhance and optimize their websites, with the help of a highly customizable IDX Broker solution. A realtor with Chase Real Estate, Savage is an active member of the Midwest Real Estate Data MLS (MRED). With the unique and one-of-a-kind connection that this IDX software has with local Multiple Listing Service's (MLS), Savage is able to immediately and prominently display an endless amount of the most up-to-date MRED listing information, directly onto his own personal website, eliminating the time and hassle for consumers, that would normally have to navigate elsewhere. Potential home buyers also have the option to specificy what they are looking for in their new property, and will only be shown properties that match their personal specifications, creating a simple and efficient online real estate search process.

EUGENE, OR - April 29, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Prudential Florida Realty's Deanna Krespach of Bonita Springs, Florida, has recently decided to contribute to the rapidly expanding network of real estate agents and brokers opting to enhance, personalize and renovate the search functionalities of their websites, by integrating a custom IDX solution. This new IDX software addition and its one-of-a-kind support system will allow easy consumer access to thousands of property listings on Krespach's site, smoothing the online real estate search process for both her and her clients alike. IDX Broker simplifies and attractively presents listing information from both the Fort Myers MLS (FortMyers) and the Sunshine MLS (SSMLS), directly onto Krespach's site, which is personalized according to his exact specifications, and is then automatically updated, on a daily basis, saving her valuable time which can be spent focusing on the personal needs of her clients

EUGENE, OR - April 29, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- The constantly growing group of real estate professionals creating easy-to-use websites has grown yet again, as IDX, Inc. welcomes Texas Pride Realty's Leslie Wilson to the team. Located just outside of Dallas, Texas, Carrollton's Texas Pride Realty boasts a wonderful relationship with North Texas Real Estate Info Systems (NTREIS). Thanks to the thousands of listings on the NTREIS database, Wilson is able to integrate area listings with his own properties, creating a unique pool of homes for his clients to search.

VIENNA, VA - April 28, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today released new guidance, Advisory to Financial Institutions on Filing Suspicious Activity Reports Regarding Home Equity Conversion Mortgage Fraud Schemes, to assist financial institutions in guarding against fraud schemes perpetrated against senior citizens who use the Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA’s) Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program, a form of reverse mortgage.

Peachtree City, GA - April 28, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Stephen Walker, a top-producing Realtor with Prudential Georgia Realty, wasagain named to the company’s Top 25 Individual Agents list for his 2009 salesperformance. This marks the 5th consecutive year Stephen has beennamed to the list. He has been successful in selling and listing property inthe Fayetteville office for over four years, andjust returned to the Peachtree City office in The Avenue shopping plazaat the beginning of this year

McLean, VA - April 28, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE) today reported that it had sold 207 HomeSteps® REO homes to first time buyers and other owner-occupants at morning and afternoon auctions in Las Vegas and Riverside/San Bernardino Counties that drew thousands of bidders on April 24 and 25. HomeSteps is the real estate sales unit of Freddie Mac and markets a nationwide selection of Freddie Mac-owned homes

Failure is the only word to describe the House Republicans’ record on the GSEs. Washington, DC - April 28, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rep. Spencer Bachus should know better. In a long op-ed in Politico, the Alabama Republican talks at length about the supposed Democratic failure to reform the GSEs, but apparently President Bush’s “ownership society” doesn’t apply to Republicans taking responsibility for their own failures. The Republican record on Fannie and Freddie is clear and embarrassing:

WILDWOOD, NJ - April 28, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Beachfront or Bayside? Take your pick as 53 condominiums go on the auction block in the Wildwoods next month with minimum bids starting at just $55,000.

WASHINGTON, DC - April 28, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International will feature a comprehensive educational program at the 2010 BOMA International Conference & The Every Building Show® in Long Beach, California, June 27-29, focusing on strategies for optimizing performance and creating value in today’s challenging commercial real estate market. The program, featuring nearly 40 sessions built around five strategic tracks, will include sessions on high performing buildings, reducing operating costs, maintaining tenants and keeping top-notch management teams in place

EUGENE, OR - April 28, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of Lakes & Links International Realty's Cheri Foutz, to the ever expanding group of real estate professionals choosing to simplify their websites, with the help of a customized Internet Data Exchange (IDX) solution. By combining listings from the Mid Florida Regional MLS (MFRMLS), which Foutz is a member of, and properties Foutz represents, clients will have access to thousands of homes in the Lake Mary, Florida area. IDX Broker technology extracts raw listing data right from the MFRMLS, and seamlessly integrates it onto Foutz's website

Destin, FL - April 28, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- A new company started to align bankers interests with upside down homeowners at risk of losing their homes may save 5 to 7 million mortgage holders from losing their homes to foreclosure

EUGENE, OR - April 28, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. welcomes Phoenix area real estate broker Tyler Stone with Infinity Health Real Estate, to the constantly growing number of agents and brokers choosing to simplify their professional websites with a customizable IDX solution. As a member of the Arizona Regional MLS (ARMLS), Stone has access to all of the area's property listings. This information has never been as easy for potential home buyers to use. But thanks to the IDX Broker technology, created by IDX, Inc., anyone searching for the perfect property can see these listings conveniently on Stone's website.

EUGENE, OR - April 28, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today's addition of Realtor Kimberly Spano with Total Quality Real Estate to the IDX, Inc. family is a great one for both parties. Spano's Coral Gables community listings are paired with the Greater Miami and the Beach MLS (GMBMLS), to bring her clients the most up-to-date and extensive property listings in the area. Her custom IDX solution gives Spano the opportunity to grant potential home buyers access to thousands of homes online

EDISON, NJ - April 28, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Looking for investment properties? Fifteen commercial and investment properties in New York and New Jersey will be auctioned off next month with absolute and minimum bids starting at just $90,000

EUGENE, OR - April 28, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. uses its primary software application, IDX Broker, to bring its time-saving search features to Terrence Kilgallen with Weichert Realtors in Clinton, New Jersey's website. This custom IDX solution provides Kilgallen with a unique mode to link prospective home buyers with an infinite amount of the most up-to-date property listings within his local Multiple Listing Service (MLS), the Garden State – Agent MLS (GSMLS-A). Now, any individual consumer with internet access can view and sift through properties on their own personal computers, at any point in time, when browsing Kilgallen's site.

Canton, GA - April 27, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- April 26, 2010—Realtor Colleen Moore recently made the switch to PrudentialGeorgia Realty. She is based out of Prudential Georgia Realty’s Cherokeeoffice, located on Riverstone Parkway in Canton.

April 27, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Structural Insulated Panel Association (SIPA) recognized five of the most energy-efficient and unique buildings constructed with structural insulated panels during the SIPA Annual Meeting & Conference in Chicago, Illinois. Now in its eighth year, the SIPA Building Excellence Awards highlight innovative projects using high performance structural insulated panels (SIPs) as the basis for energy-efficient, green buildings

EUGENE, OR - April 27, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Naples, Florida real estate broker Susan Hubly is joining with IDX, Inc. to create a customized professional website. The Internet Data Exchange (IDX) technology helps to integrate listings from the Naples area Sunshine MLS (SSMLS) with Hubly's own listings to create the most diverse pool of properties for potential home buyers to explore and choose from online. Prudential Florida Realty can now display listings on Hubly's site from all over the Southern Florida market, to make searching for a home easier on both buyers and real estate professionals

Canton, GA - April 27, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Realtor Debbie Hvostik recently made the switch to Prudential Georgia Realty. She is based out of Prudential Georgia Realty's Cherokee office, located on Riverstone Parkway in Canton.