California RealEstateRama

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CA - June 17, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- The County of San Bernardino Economic Development Agency was awarded the 2014 Achievement Award in the category of Community/Economic Development by the National Association of Counties (N...

Los Angeles, CA - May 27, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Avison Young, the world’s fastest-growing commercial real estate services firm, announced today that it has completed a 15-year lease with Catalina Bar & Grill, a dining and entertainment venue in the heart of Hollywood featuring some of the area’s most talented Jazz musicians. Valued at $5.57 million, the lease totaled just under 9,000 square feet (sf)

Santa Rosa, CA: - May 2, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- A homeowner and several consumer advocate attorneys will speak on one of three panels at a hearing sponsored by State Senator Noreen Evans, the Chair of the Senate Banking Committee, today from 10AM-12PM. The hearing will focus on the California Homeowner Bill of Rights.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - May 1, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee, released the following statement in response to today’s GAO report on the Independent Foreclosure Review (IFR). The study was conducted as the result of a 2012 request by Congresswoman Waters, Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Reps. Brad Miller (D-NC) and Luis Gutierrez (D-IL). Waters released the following statement:

WASHINGTON, D.C. - May 1, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Edwin M. Lee today issued the following statement on the Generating Renewal, Opportunity, and Work with Accelerated Mobility, Efficiency, and Rebuilding of Infrastructure and Communities throughout America Act (GROW AMERICA Act)

WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 30, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Edwin M. Lee today at the grand opening of the Rene Cazenave Apartments, highlighted the City’s progress toward his ambitious housing goal of bringing 30,000 new and rehabilitated homes to the City by 2020, with at least one-third of those permanently affordable, and the majority within financial reach of the middle class. In the first quarter of 2014, 2,123 housing units opened to provide new homes to families in San Francisco, with 24 percent of those units permanently affordable to low-income households

WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 25, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Earlier today, Representative Mark Takano released a report titled, “Reverse Mortgages: Senior Housing Bubble Held Together by Glue and Tax Dollars” and sent a letter to the Federal Housing Administration recommending reforms that would protect seniors and save taxpayers money.

FRESNO - January 16, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced the arrest of five individuals who allegedly ran a statewide housing scheme by using adverse possession laws to fraudulently seize at least 23 homes in nine counties.

Sacramento, CA - October 7, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- In recent days, CalVet has received a number of calls from concerned veterans regarding the impact of the federal government shut down on the CalVet Home Loan program.CalVet Home Loans is not being...

Los Angeles, CA - October 4, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- For almost three decades now, NHS has continued making Los Angeles County neighborhoods, neighborhoods of choice by creating BLOC clubs, putting first time homebuyers in homes and revitalizing nei...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 3, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- About 50 homes within Los Angeles County unincorporated communities have sustained $2.3 million in combined flood damage, according to the Los Angeles County Flood Control District.

San Francisco, CA - October 3, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) --Three important developments this week confirmed concerns about mortgage servicing expressed by housing counselors throughout California in a state-wide survey earlier this year. A federal judge ...

City of Alhambra - October 3, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- With the second day of the Federal shutdown in effect, local governments are bracing for the worst. The Housing Authority of the County of Los Angeles (HACoLA) operates affordable housing program...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 3, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today Rep. Henry A. Waxman spoke with National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Acting Chairman Deborah A. P. Hersman regarding the tragic crash at the Santa Monica Airport. In their conversat...

Northbrook, IL - October 2, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, has completed the sale of a single tenant triple net leased Walgreens property located at 4520 Balfour Road in Brentwood, California for $...

San Francisco, CA - October 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Edwin M. Lee announced San Francisco will triple the amount of funding to prevent illegal Ellis Act evictions and that the City will release $700,000 in funding for other eviction preventi...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Congressman Scott Peters (CA-52) announced the introduction of HR 3182, legislation to improve the support infrastructure at our country’s international border crossings including San Ys...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 30, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- California Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Peter J. Gravett will swear in the new Administrator for the Veterans Home of California – Fresno, Rojirio De La Cerda, at the Veterans Ho...

WASHINGTON - September 30, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (CA-46) and Congressman Tony Cárdenas (San Fernando Valley) will lead a Latino Leaders Summit on empowering Latinos in the housing market at the Congressional Hispanic...

Washington, DC - August 2, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Congressman Juan Vargas (CA-51) joined fellow Democrats to highlight the devastating effects that cuts to the Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG), being proposed in H.R. 2610, th...