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WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 18, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mortgage applications increased 23.1 percent from one week earlier (last week’s results included an adjustment for New Years Day), according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending January 13, 2012.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 18, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes continued to climb for a fourth consecutive month in January, rising four points to 25 on the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI), released today. This is the highest level the index has attained since June of 2007.

Study: Commercial Real Estate Development and Construction annually contribute $231 billion to GDP; down from 2007 contribution of $549 billion, January 17, 2012 Washington, D.C....

Atlanta, GA - January 16, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- On January 12, 2012, an Order to Cease and Desist issued by the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance (“Department”) to Real Estate Acquisition & Development, LLC located at 130 Lakeview...

Atlanta, GA - January 16, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- On January 6, 2012, the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance’s (“Department’s”) Notice of Intent to Revoke Annual License of Citizens First Mortgage Solutions, Inc., located at 2330 Scen...

January 16, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- County Executive Ike Leggett today announced that Montgomery County has forged an agreement with the Clarksburg Development Team of David Flanagan, Bernard Rafferty and Donald Knutson, that will allow Clarksburg t...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The latest Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) survey shows positive trends in the housing market, with delinquencies and foreclosures down from last year. However, the millions of foreclosures still ahead will continue to erode communities and slow economic recovery. The need for aggressive and fair loan modifications remains as strong as ever.

Washington, DC - January 12, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Representatives Mike Thompson (CA-1), Zoe Lofgren (CA-16) and Anna Eshoo (CA-14) led a group of 25 California Members of Congress in calling on President Barack Obama to address the housing crisis...

Washington, DC - January 12, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Two years after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti, the process of rebuilding has taken another step forward with the selection of Burtland Granvil, AIA, LEED AP, as the new Architecture for Humanity Sustainability Design Fellow.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 12, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Funders Together to End Homelessness today announced the formation of a special working group focused on veterans homelessness. All grantmakers with an interest in the welfare of America’s veterans are invited to join.

NEW YORK, NY - January 12, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- HOK is the U.S. Green Building Councilfs official design partner for Project Haiti, a facility targeting LEEDR Platinum certification that will replace a Port-au-Prince orphanage and childrenfs center devastated by the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that rocked Haiti and killed 316,000 people two years ago, on Jan. 12, 2010.

IRVINE, CA - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Hanley Investment Group Real Estate Advisors, one of the most dominant retail investment groups in the western United States and a market leader in the sale of retail properties, announced today that ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today Mayor Edwin M. Lee and Supervisor Malia Cohen today introduced a resolution at the Board of Supervisors to ensure that major redevelopment projects, such as Mission Bay, the Hunters Poin...

Washington, DC - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-1) today announced more than $5.5 million for homeless programs across California’s First Congressional District. The funding comes through the U.S. Department of H...

Newark, NY - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- New Jersey’s office building cleaners have ratified a new four-year contract that protects the healthcare coverage of more than 7,000 workers and raises their wages by 13 percent over the life of the contract. The ratification votes came in meetings at 10 locations around the state, from Paterson to Morristown to Trenton, with the last in Newark and Jersey City this afternoon. Building cleaners at all the meetings overwhelmingly approved an agreement reached December 27th between the 32BJ Bargaining Committee and the New Jersey Contractors Association, which represents building cleaning companies.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Attorney Donald A. Davis announced today that Janice Kay Branderhorst of Holland, Michigan was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell to 13 months in prison for bank fraud. The...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- By an overwhelming margin, American voters strongly value homeownership and would oppose efforts to weaken or eliminate the mortgage interest deduction or diminish a federal role to help qualified home buyers obtain affordable 30-year mortgages, according to a new nationwide survey gauging likely voters’ attitudes towards homeownership and housing policy issues.

WASHINGTON, DC - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Urban Land Institute (ULI) is pleased to announce the addition of two new staff members filling key policy and communications positions: widely recognized housing expert Lynn M. Ross has been named executive director for the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing; and award-winning real estate journalist Elizabeth Razzi has taken the position of editor-in-chief of Urban Land, ULI’s print and online magazine.

WASHINGTON, DC - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today that it is making available $110 million in grants to transform public and assisted housing and to revitalize communities. Appearing in today’s Federal Register is the Notice of Funding Availability, the federal application, for the FY 2012 Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Program. Read HUD’s funding notice.

WASHINGTON, DC - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- As part of its continuing effort to provide quality housing counseling to the nation's homeowners, buyers and renters, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced the availability of $2 million in grants for housing counseling training. HUD's goal is to fund eligible organizations to deliver training across the full spectrum of counseling services.