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C&W ANNOUNCES SALE OF ADAPTIVE REUSE APARTMENT BUILDINGS LOCATED IN SOUTH BEND, IN
CHICAGO, IL - April 19, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Cushman & Wakefield’s Midwest Multifamily Advisory Group is pleased to announce the sale of Central High and Stephenson Mill Apartments in South Bend, Indiana on behalf of a Fortune 500 company to Denver, CO based Forum Real Estate Group
Status of Independent Foreclosure Review Payments
WASHINGTON, DC - April 19, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The second wave of 1.4 million checks totaling $1.2 billion was sent today to borrowers eligible for payments under the Independent Foreclosure Review Payment Agreement, bringing the total number of checks sent to date to 2.8 million worth $2.4 billion. Independent Foreclosure Review.
Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Announces $9.4 Million in California Homeowner Assistance Grants
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – April 19, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced California’s National Mortgage Settlement Grant Program has awarded $9.4 million to 21 organizations in order to assist Califo...
32BJ CALLS ON CITY TO INVESTIGATE WIDESPREAD ABUSES OF SPECIAL TAX EXEMPTION PROGRAM BY...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 18, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- More than a hundred supporters joined a protest rally today in front of a Park Slope luxury apartment complex to demand that the building’s service workers, who say they were fired in retaliation for their union activities, be rehired.
Bay Area Home Sales Dip Below 2012 Level Again; Median Sale Price Rises
La Jolla, CA - April 18, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Bay Area home sales fell below a year earlier for the second consecutive month in March as demand continued to outstrip supply in many markets. While low-end sales fell sharply compared with March 2012, $500,000-plus transactions jumped, helping to push the median sale price up on a year-over-year basis for the 12th consecutive month, a real estate information service reported.
MERS Wins Federal Lawsuit in the Sixth Circuit
eston, Virginia - April 18, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- MERSCORP Holdings, Inc. today announced that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision in favor of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc
Austin-area home sales up 16 percent in March, spent 26 percent less time on...
AUSTIN, TX - April 18, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- According to the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) report released today by the Austin Board of REALTORS® (ABoR), the volume of Austin-area home sales continues to rise as March became the 22nd straight month of sales volume increases—the most home sales in March since 2007
Homeownership Preservation Foundation Receives $3.4 Million Grant from National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling (NFMC) Program
WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 18, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Homeownership Preservation Foundation (HPF), an independent national nonprofit dedicated to helping distressed homeowners navigate financial challenges and avoid mortgage foreclosure through its Homeowner’s HOPE™ Hotline at 888-995-HOPE™, announced today that it has received $3.4 million in grant funds from the National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling (NFMC) Program overseen by NeighborWorks® America
CNT, City of Chicago Announce New Sustainable Backyards Program Website
CHICAGO, IL - April 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- As the spring gardening season kicks off, the Chicago Sustainable Backyards Program (Sustainable Backyards), a City of Chicago initiative managed by the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT), announces the launch of an exciting new and convenient website for the program: www.sustainablebackyards.org. The new site centralizes resources that will help Chicagoans create environmentally beneficial landscapes throughout the city.
DataQuick Helps Lenders Identify Key Prospective Borrowers With New Customer Acquisition Solutions
SAN DIEGO - April 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- DataQuick®, a Mortgage Technology Top 50 service provider, has segmented its National Property Database into targeted prospect files enabling lenders, marketing managers and business development associates to more accurately identify home equity candidates, cash buyers, high net worth borrowers and underwater borrowers
Georgia Court of Appeals Validates MERS’ Role and Authority
Reston, Virginia - April 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- MERSCORP Holdings, Inc. today announced that the Court of Appeals for the State of Georgia has ruled in favor of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS) and other defendants, by affirming two separate lower court decisions that had rejected allegations of wrongful foreclosure.
Federal Reserve provides information on checks sent under Independent Foreclosure Review Payment Agreement
WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The paying agent for checks being sent to borrowers under the Independent Foreclosure Review has assured the Federal Reserve Board that early problems with some checks have been corrected and that funds are available to cash all checks. Independent Foreclosure Review Agreement Payments
Know Your Rights When Buying Real Estate
WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- As the spring home buying season begins, the American Land Title Association (ALTA) reminds consumers of the importance of title insurance when purchasing real estate and protecting their rights to property
NLIHC Statement in Support of Trail of Hope Demonstration
WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- On April 17, a house from the Oglala Sioux Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation will be placed on Union Square near the U.S. Capitol to draw attention to the lack of affordable housing and poor housing conditions experienced by American Indians on the Northern Planes and other reservations. The house, built in 1961, was the first federally assisted housing unit built on the Pine Ridge Reservation
Independent Foreclosure Review Agreement Payments Underway
WASHINGTON, DC - April 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Nearly 50,000 checks totaling nearly $50 million relating to the Independent Foreclosure Review Payments have been cashed or deposited as of close of business on Monday (April 15), according to officials at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Independent Foreclosure Review Agreement Payments
Worker Cap in Senate Immigration Reform Fails to Meet Needs of Construction Industry
Washington, D.C. - April 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) today issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Senate introduction of immigration reform legislation
32BJ TO CALL FOR CITY INVESTIGATION OF WIDESPREAD ABUSES BY LUXURY HOUSING DEVELOPERS OF...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 16, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The management company of a Park Slope luxury apartment building fired its building’s service workers when they began organizing around the issues of unfair wages and a lack of benefits. The workers and their supporters will hold a demonstration on Wednesday to insist on getting their jobs back and being repaid wages that they feel the company unfairly denied them
New Student Recreation Center Expansion Now Under Construction At University Of California, Riverside Campus
C.W. Driver serves as general contractor for the $35 million project WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 16, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — C.W. Driver, a premiere builder serving the Western U.S. since 1919, has started construction on the new stude...
WA Superior Court Recognizes MERS as Agent of Beneficiary
WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 16, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- eston, Virginia, April 16, 2013— MERSCORP Holdings, Inc. today announced that Washington Superior Court Judge Bruce I. Weiss recently granted MERS’ and its co-defendant member’s motion for summary judgment, denying a plaintiff’s wrongful foreclosure complaint seeking to set aside a completed trustee sale of his property
Referendum may be derailing right to buy reform, say housing bodies
WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 16, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Reform of the right to buy in Scotland could be derailed by the independence referendum, according to two leading national housing bodies.
