Tennessee RealEstateRama
March 2012 Market Report
MEMPHIS, Tenn., April, 6, 2012 – Memphis-area home sales for March rose 19.8 percent from a year ago, with 1,281 total sales recorded in the Memphis Area Association of REALTORS MAARdata property records database. Total sales jumped 29.1 percent from...
December & 2011 Year-End Market Report
MEMPHIS, TN - January 24, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Memphis-area home sales for December fell 10 percent from a year ago, with 898 total sales recorded in the Memphis Area Association of REALTORS® MAARdata property records database. Total sales for a...
MAAR Honors Members at Annual Awards Luncheon
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - December 16, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Memphis Area Association of REALTORS® announced the recipients of its 2011 awards at a luncheon held on Wednesday, Dec. 14: Shorty Watkins of Century 21 Maselle & Associates was named 2...
November Market Report
MEMPHIS, TN - December 8, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Memphis-area home sales for November jumped 28.4 percent from a year ago, with 1,076 total sales recorded in the Memphis Area Association of REALTORS® MAARdata property records database. Total sales...
Net Leased Walgreens Sale Arranged by The Boulder Group in the Memphis, TN MSA
Northbrook, IL - December 2, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, has arranged the sale of a single tenant net leased Walgreens property located at 7030 Hacks Cross Road in Olive Branch, MS (Memphis MSA)...
Investec Realty Services affiliates with Sperry Van Ness International IN MEMPHIS, Tenn.
MEMPHIS, TN - December 2, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Investec Realty Services, a premier Memphis, Tenn. commercial real estate firm, and Sperry Van Ness International, a large and fast-growing franchisor providing training, systems management and marke...
Corker Calls Renewal of Federal Housing Loan Limits to Subsidize Expensive Mortgages “Unconscionable,” Will...
WASHINGTON, DC - November 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., a member of the Senate Banking Committee, today called an effort to renew excessive loan limits for mortgages backed by the Federal Housing Administration “unc...
October Market Report
MEMPHIS, TN - November 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Memphis-area home sales for October declined 2.9 percent from a year ago, with 1,054 total sales recorded in the Memphis Area Association of REALTORS® MAARdata property records database. Total sale...
Corker Introduces Bill to Responsibly Unwind Fannie and Freddie, End Dependence on Government for...
WASHINGTON, DC - November 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., a member of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, today introduced the Residential Mortgage Market Privatization and Standardization Act to responsib...
MAAR Donates to REALTORS Relief Foundation
MEMPHIS, TN - July 6, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- In its June Board of Directors Meeting, the Memphis Area Association of REALTORS® voted to give a $7,500 donation to the REALTORS® Relief Foundation. The action comes in response to a stormy spring in ...
June Market Report
MEMPHIS, TN - July 6, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Memphis-area home sales for June rose 4.5 percent from a year ago, with 1,612 total sales recorded in the Memphis Area Association of REALTORS® MAARdata property records database. Existing home sales we...
WCR Memphis Chapter Receives National Honor
MEMPHIS, TN - June 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Memphis Chapter of the Women’s Council of REALTORS® has been recognized nationally for its outstanding recruitment efforts. The WCR Memphis Chapter won first place in recruitment in the large cha...
FEMA Experts Offer Advice at Knox County Home Improvement Store
NASHVILLE, TN - June 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mitigation experts from the Federal Emergency Management Agency are in a Knox County home improvement store this week to answer questions and offer home improvement tips and proven techniques to pr...
MAAR to Participate in REALTOR Nationwide Open House Weekend
Memphis, Tenn. - May 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Memphis Area Association of REALTORS® has teamed up with REALTOR® associations across the country for the Nationwide Open House Weekend from Saturday, June 4 through Sunday, June 5.
Republicans Push to End Failed Mortgage Program
WASHINGTON, D.C. - March 10, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, U.S. Senators Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) and Bob Corker (R-Tennessee), both members of the Senate Banking Committee, and Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Oklahoma), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, introduced legislation to end the Housing Affordable Modification Program (HAMP).
Sevierville Attorney Indicted in Wire and Bank Fraud Conspiracy and Money Laundering in $6...
KNOXVILLE, TN - February 18, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment against Jerry Kerley, 57, of Kodak, Tenn., and Jeffrey Whaley, 46, of Sevierville, Tenn.. The superseding indictment, which was returned this morning, charges Kerley and Whaley with conspiring to defraud Citizens Bank, located in New Tazewell, Tenn., and SunTrust Mortgage, Inc., located in Richmond, Va., through a mortgage fraud scheme. The indictment alleges that the conspiracy involved a "straw borrower" mortgage fraud scheme in which straw borrowers were induced to obtain mortgage loans in their names based on promises that they would not have to make a down payment or mortgage payments for the property, would receive cash at closing, and would share in the profit following a resale of the property.
