Maryland RealEstateRama

BALTIMORE, MD - January 5, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced today that his Consumer Protection Division has entered into an agreement with Wells Fargo over the allegedly deceptive marketing of adjustable rate mor...

December 19, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Managers of buildings and properties in Montgomery County or building staff who reside in the County are encouraged to sign up for an energy management training program that will help them reduce the operating co...

November 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Montgomery County’s Department of Housing and Community Affairs (DHCA) is sponsoring two public meetings to hear from residents and organizations interested in contributing to the update of the 2001 Housing Pol...

Owings Mills, MD - November 18, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) will host a foreclosure prevention workshop in Owings Mills tomorrow, Saturday, November 18, 2011, to help keep Maryland families in their homes. The...

CROWNSVILLE, MD - October 31, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) today met with officials of the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) and statewide housing advocates to discuss the continuing foreclosur...

October 31, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Montgomery County’s Office of Human Rights and the Interagency Fair Housing Coordinating Group will host an educational forum about fair housing on Thursday, November 10 from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Silver ...

October 20, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced that 43 businesses, multi-family properties and faith-based organizations are in various stages of completing energy efficiency projects...

New Carrollton, MD - September 20, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Governor Martin O’Malley and Lt. Governor Anthony G. Brown, joined by Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker, today announced the relocation of the Maryland Department of ...

September 12, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Montgomery County Department of Housing and Community Affairs (DHCA), in partnership with the Montgomery County Housing Fair Planning Committee and the City of Gaithersburg, invites all county homeowners ...

August 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Montgomery County Office of Consumer Protection (OCP) warns county residents to be cautious when hiring contractors to repair damage caused by last week’s earthquake and the recent hurricane and advises co...

August 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Montgomery County today launched the Residential Energy Efficiency Rebate Program that will provide incentives of up to $3,000 to owner occupants of single family homes and condominiums who make new energy effic...

August 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Montgomery County’s Department of Housing and Community Affairs, the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development and the City of Gaithersburg will co-host HomeFree-USA’s free workshop on Saturday, August 27, to assist persons faced with possible mortgage foreclosures. The workshop will take place at 610 East Diamond Avenue, Gaithersburg.

BALTIMORE, MD - August 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler's Consumer Protection Division today issued a final order requiring a home builder and its principal to refund payments of $111,637.74 collected from multiple consumers to construct a home in Baltimore County. The builder must also pay penalties of $9,000 and investigation costs of $4,026.69.

August 2, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Montgomery County’s Department of Housing and Community Affairs and the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development will co-host a free workshop on Monday, August 8 from 3 to 8 p.m., to assist those faced with possible mortgage foreclosures. The workshop will take place at the Silver Spring Civic Building, One Veterans Place, Silver Spring

Washington, D.C. - August 1, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Thousands of members of the National Bar Association (NBA), one of the nation's premier legal organizations, will gather in Baltimore, Maryland from July 31-August 4 to attend seminars and forums in conjunction with the organization's 86th annual convention. Commencing with a joint-town hall meeting with the American Bar Association entitled, "The War Against Foreclosures: Combating Foreclosures and the Mortgage Crisis in Communities of Color," the 86th Annual Convention will be the foreground for discussing the nation's top legal, social and economic issues.

Joppa, MD - July 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- As the nation’s foreclosure crisis persists, Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) announced today his office will host a foreclosure prevention workshop in Joppa on Thursday, July 28, 2011. The workshop will give Maryland homeowners a chance to meet one-on-one with their mortgage lender, servicers and counselors. This is the fourth such workshop Congressman Ruppersberger has hosted since 2010, helping more than 100 families facing foreclosure.

Washington, D.C. - July 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Anne Balcer Norton, Deputy Commissioner of the Maryland Office of the Commissioner of Financial Regulation, testified on behalf of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) before the Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity Subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee on mortgage origination today. Norton detailed efforts by state regulators to improve and enhance mortgage regulation to better protect consumers and to strengthen the mortgage market itself, but also to ensure a diverse mortgage industry which supports a variety of business models.

BALTIMORE, MD - June 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler has announced that the Consumer Protection Division has issued a final order requiring Bay Area Design & Build, Inc. and its principals to refund $10,000 collected from consumers to construct a home in Anne Arundel County and pay a penalty of $3,000. The Division found the builder and its principals, Gregory Louis Haigis and Robert Scott Huff, violated Maryland's Custom Home Protection Act by failing to place or maintain money in an escrow account, failing to have a surety bond to protect those deposits and payments and failing to construct the home

June 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Montgomery County’s Department of Health and Human Services building at 1301 Piccard Drive in Rockville will be closed on Tuesday, June 21 because of a non-working air conditioning system. The Montgomery County Crisis Center, located on the first floor of the building, will remain open for telephone and walk-in crisis service.

Washington, DC - June 13, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- WHAT: The Go Green Energy Conference is a free community service event designed for homeowners, farmers and small business owners to discover practical ways that you can save money, use less energy and go green on any size budget. This year will be bigger and better than the first two Go Green Energy Conferences in 2009 and 2010 that were attended by more than 1,000 people. Come see indoor and outdoor exhibitors and learn tips from experts in breakout sessions. Go Green 2011 has MORE exhibit space and is still FREE to Exhibit and FREE to Attend with FREE PARKING!