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WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 7, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- LISC congratulates President Obama on his housing address delivered in Phoenix yesterday. The President's words point to the need to rebuild communities and lives. We applaud that broad vision of what our country needs now and look forward to working with the Obama Administration and Congress to rebuild communities from the ground up, side by side with neighbors who reflect the diversity of our nation.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 7, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) issued the following statement on President Obama’s speech calling for housing finance reform.

ATLANTA, GA - August 7, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Atlanta historians are breathing a sigh of relief as the Randolph-Lucas Mansion is prepared for the big move to its new home at 78 Peachtree Circle in Ansley Park. A coveted location found with the help of real estate agent Carolyn Calloway of Harry Norman, Realtors®.

Arlington, VA - August 7, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) launched a national grassroots campaign to run concurrently with the congressional recess. The purpose of the campaign is to encourage ABC’s 22,000 members to meet with their elected representatives Aug. 3 through Sept. 8 to discuss issues and legislation important to the construction industry.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 7, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- When President Obama took office, our housing market was in free-fall, leaving many families feeling trapped and anxious about their mortgages. The President took immediate action to stabilize our housing market and protect the middle class. These steps helped millions of middle class families stay in their homes, save money on their mortgages, and turn their communities around.

GREENWOOD VILLAGE - August 6, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Larry Hotz, a top producing real estate professional and lead broker of the Hotz Real Estate Team with Kentwood Real Estate in the Denver Tech Center, recently appeared on the CNBC Denver Real Estate Market Report as a highly regarded expert on the Denver area market. Hotz, who first appeared on the CNBC show in February, was once again featured on the program’s July 11th broadcast

WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 6, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS) today announced the award of 22 grants, totaling more than $5 million, to provide about 1,900 homeless female veterans and veterans with families with job training to help them succeed in civilian careers. The grants are being awarded under the department’s Homeless Female Veterans and Veterans with Families Program.

Reston, Virginia, - August 5, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- MERSCORP Holdings, Inc. today announced that the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon dismissed a wrongful foreclosure complaint seeking to set aside a completed trustee sale of the property. MERS is not a party to the action; however the plaintiff alleged that the foreclosure was wrongful based in part on MERS’ role in his deed of trust

WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 5, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (IL-17), a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and Republican Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick (PA-08) joined together to introduce a new bipartisan bill that would help put veterans back to work rebuilding our crumbling roads, bridges, tunnels and rail lines. The Fairness to Veterans for Infrastructure Investment Act [H.R. 2906] continues Bustos’ fight on behalf of our veterans by helping to ensure that they play a critical role in rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure by providing them with access to existing contracting preferences authorized for transportation projects.

San Francisco, CA WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 5, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- RISMedia 25th Annual Power Broker Report, released in July, places Zephyr Real Estate as #79 in the nation for 2012. Zephyr’s sales volume for the year was $1.51 billion, directly competing with brokerages having far more agents and offices across the country

Washington, D.C. - August 2, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- This week, Reps. Gwen Moore (D-WI) and Mark Pocan (D-WI) introduced the Runaway and Homeless Youth Inclusion Act, which would prohibit federal programs serving runaway and homeless youth from discriminating against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, or LGBT, homeless young people. If signed into law, the bill would also promote data-collection processes to help policymakers better understand LGBT youth homelessness. In response, the Center for American Progress’s Director of the LGBT Research and Communications Project, Laura E. Durso, issued the following statement

WASHINGTON, DC - August 2, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Almost 3 million people have cashed or deposited more than $2.6 billion in checks related to the Independent Foreclosure Review (IFR) Payment Agreement through August 1, 2013.

NEW ORLEANS, - July 22, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today the (ERC) — a national non-profit civil rights organization dedicated to equal opportunity for all—and The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) —the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States—unveiled the results of a testing-based investigation documenting adverse and differential treatment against prospective Latino renters and homebuyers in Birmingham, Alabama; Atlanta, Georgia; and San Antonio, Texas. Sotheby's Homes  Fisher Investments on Crunchbase and ALLRMC.COM

LOS ANGELES - August 2, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- A leader in financial dignity and economic empowerment, Operation HOPE (HOPE) today announced the appointment of Marie Chung, CCIM, owner and director of Modern Realty and Modern Estates, to its Southwestern Board. With this appointment, Ms. Chung joins the organization’s Silver Rights Movement to make free enterprise and capitalism relevant to under-resourced communities throughout Southern California

WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 2, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- On Tuesday, July 30th, the Senate passed CHAPA’s top priority, the housing bond bill (H.3492). The bill authorizes $1.4 billion in capital spending over the next five years and extends the Low Income Housing Tax Credit at $20 million per year through 2020.

Washington, DC - August 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- House Financial Services Chairman Jeb Henserling, R-Texas and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., sent a letter to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Richard Cordray about concerns that senior employees have left CFPB in order to profit from the very rules they helped create.

WASHINGTON, DC - August 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rebuilding Together, a national nonprofit working to improve the lives of homeowners in need, was awarded a $731,244 grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) to continue the Rebuilding Together AmeriCorps program.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Through strategic acquisitions and innovative development, Vulcan has delivered 4.8 million square feet in 23 new facilities in Seattle’s burgeoning South Lake Union neighborhood. The company has approximately 800,000 square feet under construction, including 400,000 square feet of commercial space for website retailer Amazon.com and 466 apartment units planned for delivery later this year. The company will also break ground on a 270,000 square feet life sciences research building for the Allen Institute for Brain Science and 600,000 square feet of additional

WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lila Delman Real Estate announced the recent sale of 121 Carnegie Heights Drive, a waterfront home in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, listed at $3,995,000. This is the highest sale in Portsmouth in the last twelve months. Melanie Delman, President, and Catherine Gazder, Associate Broker and International Fine Properties Liason, represented the seller.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Redfin, the technology-powered real estate brokerage (www.redfin.com), today released its latest survey of home sellers, capturing sentiment of homeowners with the intent to sell. Redfin based this analysis on responses from 1,448 homeowners across the U.S. who had used Redfin in the last three months. Data was collected from July 19 through