STAMFORD, CT - January 31, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle reported that Fairfield County has seen steady improvement during the past year, posting falling vacancy rates and rising average asking rental rates in all property classes at year-end 2011. Westchester County presented more of a mixed picture, recording a small increase in rents despite an increase in vacancy rates in all property classes in the final quarter of the year.

Phoenix, AZ - January 31, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- GPE Commercial Advisors (gpe1.com) reported closing 25 commercial transactions in the amount of $9.6M for 95,037 square feet in December 2011.

IRVINE, CA - January 31, 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 ...

Commerce, CA - January 31, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Voit Real Estate Services’ Irvine office has successfully completed the sale of Commerce Office Park, a 285,368 square-foot institutional quality office campus located at 4900, 5500, 5700 and 5770...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - January 31, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Tenants signed nearly 23.4 million square feet of new industrial leases in Northern and Central New Jersey in 2011, representing the highest volume since before the recession, according to ...

CHICAGO, IL - January 31, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Las Vegas-based Wardley Real Estate has announced that it is now operating as an independent full-service brokerage affiliated with Leading Real Estate Companies of the World®. The company was forme...

EUGENE, OR - January 31, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Fort Lauderdale MLS (RAGFL) listings are now more accessible than ever before, thanks to IDX, Inc. and Jim Esposito. The dynamic duo of real estate, has supplied Fort Lauderdale, Florida home seekers ...

EUGENE, OR - January 31, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- MLS of Naples (Naples) listings are now easily displayed online, thanks to IDX, Inc. and real estate agent Bonita Popescu. Thousands of Naples, Florida area properties listings are seamlessly integrat...

Los Angeles, CA - January 31, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Donald Goldstein, global chief information officer of CBRE Group, Inc. has been named Advisory Council co-chair of Realcomm 2012, an annual technology conference for the commercial real estate industry and IBcon, a new, co-located conference dedicated to smart, connected, high performance, intelligent buildings.

ROCKY HILL, CT - January 31, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Connecticut Housing Finance Authority (CHFA) provides below-market rate mortgages to first- time homebuyers in the state. In January, CHFA’s interest rate dropped to a record low of 3.250 percent for a 30-year fixed mortgage. “The interest rate has been gradually decreasing this year, but this is the lowest rate in the 42-year history of CHFA,” said John Craford, Executive Vice President. According to a recent Freddie Mac survey, the nationwide 30-year fixed rate mortgage average was 3.88 percent, down from 4.74 percent at the same time last year.

IRVINE CA - January 31, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- According to award-winning KTGY Group, Inc., Architecture + Planning, the City of Los Angeles celebrated the grand opening of The Crossings on 29th Street in South Los Angeles on Thursday, January 26, ...

WASHINGTON, DC - January 31, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Home loans guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs continue to have the lowest serious delinquency and foreclosure rates in the mortgage industry. Veterans have also taken advantage of their home loan benefit in record numbers, as VA loan originations reached their highest total in eight years

EUGENE, OR - January 31, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, IDX, Inc. announces Jayne Doole of East Oahu Realty is the most recent real estate professional to adopt a customizable IDX solution for his website. Now, Hawaii Central MLS (HiCentralMLS) list...

WASHINGTON, DC - January 31, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today awarded $20 million in technical assistance funding to 12 organizations that will, in turn, help local communities across this country stabilize neighborhoods hard-hit by foreclosure through HUD’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP)

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 30, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), longtime Congressional champion of providing assistance to low-income families to heat and cool their homes and dean of the Massachusetts Congressional de...

DETROIT - January 30, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rock Ventures LLC, the umbrella entity providing operational coordination and integration of Dan Gilbert’s portfolio of companies, investments and real estate, today announced it will close on the purchase of downtown Detroit’s historic Federal Reserve Building, a 176,000 square-foot building that has sat vacant since 2004.

SACRAMENTO, CA - January 30, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging two defendants with mail fraud and money laundering in connection with a mor...

NEW YORK, NY - January 30, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Halstead Property Development Marketing and West 147th Street Associates LLC, an affiliate of L+M Development Partners, Inc., today announced that all units at PS90, a premier residential developmen...

Las Vegas, NV - January 30, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Ballen Group, A Las Vegas Short Sale Specialist Team, known for their Las Vegas Real Estate experience in Short Sales, has just closed another Short Sale in Nevada. Using their comprehensive Sh...

FRANKFORT, KY - January 30, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Administrative Office of the Courts will move its facilities to a new location in Frankfort under a lease-to-purchase contract signed last week with Home Depot. The agreement will allow the AOC...

This week, New Dem Members hosted a roundtable with housing policy experts and industry representatives to solicit ideas on what Congress’s next steps should be to address the affordable housing crisis. New Dem Vice Chair for Outreach Salud Carbajal (CA-24) hosted the roundtable alongside Housing, Infrastructure, & Transportation Working Group Chair Norma Torres (CA-35) and Housing Task Force Chair Emilia Sykes (OH-13).

“More than 32,000 housing discrimination complaints were filed in 2024, and disability-related complaints made up 54.6 percent of all complaints. Decades after the Fair Housing Act amendments and the Americans with Disabilities Act, too many residential buildings continue to be built inaccessibly and in violation of the law, preventing people with disabilities from living there comfortably.

Last week, Senator Reverend Warnock met with Gullah Geechee community members at the historic Harrington School in St. Simons Island to discuss environmental health concerns, land ownership, and cultural preservation. Community members discussed high levels of toxic chemicals found in the blood of Glynn County residents living near Brunswick Superfund sites

The New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) today announced that $2.2 million has been awarded to help extend the life of a homeless shelter in Erie County and two shelters in Suffolk County. The funding was awarded by OTDA's Homeless Housing and Assistance Program.

As Trump continues to claim affordability is a “hoax” and a “con job,” Americans are feeling the strain of Trump’s policies on their pocketbooks. Headlines from across the country this summer lay bare Trump’s cost-of-living crisis as families get ready to send their kids back to school.

U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, joined a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the grand opening of DreamTree’s NEST Resource Center, a new space in Taos dedicated to helping New Mexicans access emergency housing, basic necessities and internet access, employment opportunities, connections to healthcare providers, case management services, and help navigating federal and state benefits.

On Aug. 11–14, National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Members gathered in Columbus, Ohio, for the organization’s 2026 Summer National Meeting, where they continued addressing the regulatory opportunities and challenges of the modern insurance marketplace.

U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) led members of the Michigan Congressional Delegation in calling on President Trump to swiftly issue a Major Disaster declaration for Michigan following the severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, high winds, large hail, and torrential rainfall across the state in April. In their letter, the lawmakers supported Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s request for assistance for Alcona, Allegan

The New York State Division of Consumer Protection (DCP) is alerting consumers about the dangers of television (TV) tip-over hazards. Millions of New Yorkers will watch the Super Bowl this Sunday either on TVs at home or at parties with friends. DCP is taking this TV-focused occasion to remind consumers of critical TV safety tips.

Fast-growing Florida has been a favorite of real estate investors for many years. With so much interest having been focused on the state, though, investors need to take care to seek the best available opportunities.

Office of General Services Commissioner RoAnn Destito today announced that the Senator Walter J. Mahoney State Office Building located at 65 Court Street in Buffalo will be sold at auction in 2020. A work group formed earlier this year made up of City, County, and State officials working with professional real estate consultants CBRE, determined that in the current competitive and robust Buffalo real estate market

The Bureau of Land Management today announced that Karen Mouritsen has been named the new California State Director—a key leadership position based in Sacramento. As State Director, Mouritsen will direct a team that manages lands encompassing 15% of the Golden State’s total land mass

The New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) today announced the opening of the new JLC Recovery and Wellness Center in New York City. JLC is operated by Exponents Inc. and provides free help and support services for people affected by addiction and for their families.

In spite of a robust U.S. economy, a strong employment rate, and steadily increasing 401(k) plan earnings, Black homeownership rates continue to drop. Drawing from the 2019 release of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers

Yesterday, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, asked the Department of the Interior about its commitment to the Yakima River Basin during a hearing on the president’s FY 2017 budget request. Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael Connor agreed with Sen. Cantwell that the Yakima River Basin plan “is a model for the rest of the nation in water management.”

“Consumers Energy is thankful to be a part of holiday celebrations across the state as warm Thanksgiving memories are being made, and we are committed to providing many more generations of Michigan families with reliable, affordable energy in all seasons,” said Garrick Rochow, Consumers Energy’s vice president and chief customer officer

WASHINGTON, D.C. - December 13, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Six federal financial regulatory agencies today issued a final rule that creates exemptions from certain appraisal requirements for a subset of higher-priced mortgage loans. The exemptions are intended to save borrowers time and money while still ensuring that the loans are financially sound

Atlanta, Georgia - November 13, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance (“Department”) entered into a Consent Order with Equity Loans, LLC, License Number 23300, located at 1150 Hammond Dr., Building E, Suite 650, Atlanta, Georgia 30328, to resolve allegations pertaining to violations of the Georgia Residential Mortgage Act