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Planet Home Living has just announced the highly anticipated first phase release at its newest neighborhood in Eagle Rock. PRISM is a limited collection of 15 single-family detached, new homes in Eagle Rock, just north of downtown Los Angeles. The initial offering includes five homes with prices starting at $640,000. Planet Home Living collaborated with award-winning national architecture firm KTGY Architecture + Planning to achieve its sleek, modern design.

Local business Landzilla.com is pleased to announce the launch of their new full-service website, which offers listings of affordable parcels of recreational land for sale throughout the United States. The website allows customers to shop for land by state, type of land desired, or pricing, and is live and fully operational immediately.

Over the past several years, the nation’s communities have seen an increasing shift to “smart buildings” that use internet-enabled wireless technology to control building-related systems. Such trends also are being seen in U.S. military facilities. In early 2015, following the release of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that called attention to building-related cyber risks, the House Armed Services Committee approved legislative language requiring the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to perform a cyber-vulnerability study as part of its fiscal year 2016 defense authorization bill.

Global real estate franchisor, RE/MAX, has selected Camp + King to lead the creative execution of its advertising and integrated marketing efforts in 2016. The San Francisco-based advertising agency won the job after an extensive selection process and has already begun initial design work for the new campaign.

With damages up nearly 20 percent in 2015, Consumers Energy remindsdo-it-yourself homeowners that August 11 (8-11) should provide an important reminder to call MISS DIG at 8-1-1 to have underground utilities marked at no cost before digging.

BuildZoom, the intelligent marketplace for remodeling and construction services, launched today The BuildZoom & Urban Economics Lab Index, a new set of residential construction and remodeling indices. The Index shows that in contrast to the tepid recovery of new home construction, the remodeling of existing homes has surpassed its pre-crisis level.

A Roth IRA is a retirement account that allows for post-tax contributions, providing tax-free growth of all earnings. Advanta IRA Services is holding a webinar on August 13 for individuals to learn more about how self-directed Roth IRAs can be beneficial in building wealth for retirement.

According to new data from the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Center for Capital Markets and Real Estate, the results of a three year forecast predict sustained, solid real estate market growth through 2017. The survey included 43 of the real estate industry’s top economists and analysts, representing at least 32 top nationally ranked real estate investment, advisory, and research groups

The smart home is here to stay. A survey of U.S. adults by Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC, the original Silicon Valley real estate start-up founded in 1906, and CNET, the world's largest and most trusted online source of consumer technology news and reviews, found that Americans are already embracing the smart home with 28 percent owning at least one smart home product and almost half of Millennials (ages 18 to 34) adopting the technology.

Nearly 1,000 top RE/MAX brokers are in Boston for their annual Broker/Owner Conference. Beginning this morning, the conference has a full schedule of events with presentations from company executives and the real estate industry’s leading speakers, coaches and technology gurus.

The Modular Building Institute (MBI) has recognized Universal Modular Building Solutions’ Mojave Solar Project Administration & Control Buildings as the August 2015 Modular Building of the Month. This project also won first place in the Permanent Special Application category at MBI’s annual Awards of Distinction, which are recognized at the association’s annual conference and expo, World of Modular.

Home Innovation Research Labs needs samples of exterior wall batt-type materials (excluding acoustical insulation) for a life expectancy research study that will assess the physical condition and thermal property of in situ wall insulation. The research study will include fiberglass and rock wool (stone wool) batts that have been in service for at least 30 years.

Rohnert Park Health Center will hold its Grand Opening Celebration and Ribbon Cutting on August 12 , during National Health Center Week. The celebration will be hosted by both the health center and the building owner, Meridian, and will feature keynote speaker Senator Ricardo Lara, the author of SB4, the Health for All Act.

Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) recently priced a new offering of Structured Pass-Through Certificates (K Certificates) which are backed by fixed-rate multifamily mortgages with 7-year terms. The company expects to issue more than $471 million in K-719 Certificates, which are expected to settle on or about August 19, 2015. This is the company's fifteenth K Certificates offering this year.

Governor Pat McCrory, N.C. Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla, III and the Economic Development Partnership of N.C. announced today that HAECO Americas’ aircraft interiors unit HAECO Cabin Solutions will expand in Guilford County and plans to create 127 new jobs over the next five years. The company plans to invest $11.3 million in the city of High Point over the same period.

The Boulder Group’s Research Department has released a new research report providing comprehensive numbers and analysis of the activity in the National Net Lease Quick Service Restaurant Market.

The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, has completed the sale of a single tenant dark Macaroni Grill property located at 2375 East 116th Street in Carmel, Indiana for $1,400,000. The 55,757 square foot property is located at the corner of the heavily trafficked Keystone Parkway and East 116th Street interchange.

Renew Financial, a leading clean energy finance company, today celebrates a total of $236 million in financing applications submitted resulting in $68 million in energy efficiency projects either funded or under construction during the first year of operation of CaliforniaFIRST, its flagship PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) financing program.

Excavators prevail as one of the major segments of the construction equipment industry. The excavation activities like drilling, shafts, foundation digging and grading for real estate, irrigation and road projects are driving the demand for excavators. The ongoing infrastructure development across the country during the last few years has led the excavator market to grow at a very remarkable rate.

Additional Consumers Energy, out-of-state, and contractor crews have joined crews who have been working around the clock in areas that were most devastated by Sunday’s storm activity in Michigan