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WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 2, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- TD Bank has announced the opening of the application period for its 2013 Housing for Everyone Grant program. Applications are due by August 30. The program will award a total of $2.5 million this year to 25 local non-profit organizations that address affordable housing needs in communities served by TD Bank, including $500,000 for organizations in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. The theme of this year’s competition is Neighborhood Revitalization and Stabilization. Applications for funding must focus on

WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 2, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Assessor-Recorder-County Clerk Dennis Draeger signed the annual property assessment roll today. The assessment roll contained 817,635 parcels and is valued at $167,498,015,331. This is a net increase as compared to the 2012 assessment roll of 3%. A significant reason for the increase was the improvement in the real estate market and the recovery of values previously reduced under decline in market value provisions.

SAN DIEGO - July 2, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- DataQuick®, a Mortgage Technology Top 50 service provider, now offers its high-quality data, proprietary analytics and research expertise as an online resource through the company’s website. The site gives lenders, originators and investors convenient access to local market data and insight built from the nation’s largest independent property database

WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 2, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- In accordance with the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, HUD published a Notice in the June 28, 2013, Federal Register identifying Federal buildings and other real property HUD has reviewed for suitability for use to assist the homeless. The properties were reviewed using information provided to HUD by Federal landholding agencies or by GSA regarding their inventories of excess or surplus property. The list includes buildings and properties in Colorado, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, and South Carolina.

Northbrook, IL - July 2, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Boulder Group’s Research Department has released a new research report providing comprehensive numbers and analysis of the 2nd quarter activity in the National Net Lease Market.

Reston, Virginia - July 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Below is a monthly summary of major legal decisions involving either the use of the MERS® System database or Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS) and its role in the mortgage process. Please feel free to contact the Communications Office at MERSCORP Holdings, Inc. with any questions and visit the MERS Newsroomfor a full list of news releases.

NEW YORK, NY - July 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Leading up to the one year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Race2Rebuild, a new charity racing team for Rebuilding Together, today announced that it will fund the rebuilding of the Brooklyn home of the family of Mary Wernersbach, a retired NYPD detective, and of the Gerritsen Beach Fire Department Vollies Center, both severely damaged by the storm.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Hundreds of New York City District Council (DC) carpenters went on strike Monday after months of stalled negotiations with one of its largest contractor associations. This strike of more than 350 members will affect major construction projects around New York City and New Jersey.

PITTSBURGH - July 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh (FHLBank) announced today that in the first half of 2013, three new members joined the Bank’s cooperative of banks, credit unions and insurance companies in Delaware, Pennsylvania and West Virginia

WASHINGTON, DC - July 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Concerned by recent hearings that showed valuable vacant federal properties spoiling D.C. neighborhoods, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to require the General Services Administration (GSA) to provide immediate public notice of federal properties identified as excess to their needs. The early public notification will help eliminate GSA’s extended delays in using or disposing of federal properties for redevelopment, giving relief to taxpayers.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Scott N. Powers, the former CEO of Arizona-based mortgage loan originator American Mortgage Specialists Inc. (AMS), and David McMaster, a former officer of AMS, were sentenced today to serve 96 and 188 months in prison, respectively, for their roles in a $28 million scheme to defraud North Dakota-based BNC National Bank (BNC).

WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- National Property Management Association (NPMA) will hold its National Education Seminar on from July 29 through August 1, 2013, in Orlando, FL. The theme for this conference is "Asset Management Strategies in a Changing World."

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 28, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of nearly $72 million in YouthBuild grants to support academic and occupational skill training for at-risk youth.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 28, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Veterans' Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS) has announced the award of 121 grants, totaling nearly $29 million, to provide more than 14,000 veterans across the nation with job training, job placement, housing and other services. These grants were awarded through the agency’s Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program (HVRP).

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 28, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Moving to Work program is the best approach available to help families in public housing achieve self-sufficiency, witnesses told the Housing and Insurance Subcommittee at a hearing yesterday

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 27, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Central Station, a $200 million transit-oriented development planned for downtown Orlando by RIDA Development Corporation, has achieved a milestone event with the sale of a two-acre site to Crescent Communities of Charlotte, N.C. Crescent plans to begin construction later this year on a mixed-use project with 275 luxury apartments and more than 20,000 square feet of amenities and urban retail space along the 61-mile SunRail commuter train system scheduled to launch in 2014.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - June 27, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mark A. Bentley, SIOR, principal, managing director, Central Arkansas Colliers International, Little Rock, Ark., has been named to the Real Estate Industry Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 27, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The performance of first-lien mortgages serviced by large national and federal savings banks continued to improve in the first quarter of 2013, according to a report released today by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 27, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Pending home sales rose in May to the highest level since late 2006, implying a possible spark as mortgage interest rates began to rise, according to the National Association of Realtors®.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 27, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mark Udall, who serves on the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, re-introduced his Solar Uniting Neighborhoods (SUN) Act today. The bill, developed based on ideas from Udall's 2010...