Yearly Archives: 2013

WASHINGTON, DC - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Senator Lisa Murkowski was glad to receive word today from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development program that they will take Murkowski’s suggestion to provide a waiver to Alas...

January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Alaska Housing Finance Corporation (AHFC) announces the launch of a redesigned website, www.ahfc.us, that will put critical housing resources and information at the fingertips of Alaskans. The website is available...

BOSTON, MA - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Thursday, January 10, 2013 - Governor Deval Patrick today filed legislation that will professionalize, modernize and regionalize the operations and financial management of the Commonwealth’s housing...

WASHINGTON, DC - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The CFPB’s final Ability to Repay/Qualified Mortgage regulation will be a defining force for all mortgage lending. The Roundtable and its Housing Policy Council share the primary goal of the rule to ensure that borrowers have the ability to repay a mortgage loan. We appreciate the open process the Bureau has followed in preparing this rule by engaging all stakeholders in discussions of the rule and its implications

Baltimore, MD - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler and the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) today awarded six nonprofit legal aid and assistance organizations more than $7.6 million...

Jackson, MS - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Jim Hood reminds Mississippians that all claims applications covered by the National Mortgage Settlement are due January 18, 2013

New York, NY - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) has announced that Brooklyn-based nonprofit CAMBA Housing Ventures, Inc. (CHV) has been selected as developer for the Van Dyke Supportive Housing Developm...

Houston, TX - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee released the following statement announcing that ten banks and mortgage companies will pay $3.3 billion in cash to borrowers and $5.2 billion in mortgage relief to se...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Community Associations Institute (CAI) is studying the long-awaited federal Qualified Mortgage (QM) standards published Jan. 10 by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The new guidel...

EUGENE, OR - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, IDX, Inc. is pleased to announce Bakersfield, California real estate broker Jacob Marquez has adopted a customizable IDX solution for his professional website. He now hosts a dynamic IDX synced...

EUGENE, OR - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) and IDX, Inc. have joined forces to display thousands of Chicago, Illinois area properties on the website of real estate broker Michael Kaufman. As a leader in the Illi...

EUGENE, OR - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. announces today that Randy Bowe of Atwater Real Estate has become the latest real estate professional to integrate the innovative IDX Broker software onto his website.

EUGENE, OR - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Terrell, North Carolina home seekers can now experience a dynamic real estate search, thanks to IDX, Inc. and real estate agent Tracey Walker. Catawba Valley MLS (CVMLS) listings have never been more ...

Chicago, IL - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Chicago Agent releases the highly anticipated 2012 online edition of its Real Data residential reference guide. Chicago Agent magazine released the highly anticipated annual edition of Real Data, the...

West Hartford, CT - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Real Estate is heating up and 2013 promises to be a profitable year for investors and entrepreneurs. Will you be a success story?

NEW YORK, NY - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency has developed a checklist to help Hurricane Sandy survivors rebuild smarter, stronger and safer so their homes are protected in future storms

TRENTON, N.J. - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Renters who need to repair or replace essential items lost in Hurricane Sandy can get help from the Small Business Administration.

SALISBURY, MD - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Brent Miller, CCIM, CPM, Managing Director of Sperry Van Ness – Miller Commercial Real Estate recently attended the CRE Brokerage Owners Success Summit at Duke University. The two day class was moderated by The Massimo Group, North America’s leading commercial real estate consulting and coaching organization.

PHOENIX, AZ - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The 2012 Phoenix Industrial Market posted a strong fi nish after a few bumps in the road earlier in the year. The year began with negative absorption in the fi rst quarter after a very strong Q4 11. ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released rules today designed to prevent mortgage lenders from making risky, unaffordable loans. These ability-to-repay rules require that lenders document and verify information demonstrating that a borrower can afford a loan and define a class of mortgages, called Qualified Mortgages (QM), that are presumed to comply with the ability-to-repay rules.