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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.

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, 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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 16, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Head Start providers impacted by Hurricane Sandy can now apply for a total of $95 million in recovery aid to help renovate, repair and rebuild damaged Head Start centers. Funds can also be used to temporarily enhance Head Start program services to address the increased social, health and mental health needs of Head Start families impacted by Hurricane Sandy

WASHINGTON, DC - April 16, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced the winner of a mobile application competition designed to make local assistance resources accessible to people helping homeless Veterans and others in need. The winner of the $25,000 prize was Reston, Va.-based Qbase, which developed “Homeless REACH.” VA’s Center for Innovation (VACI) sponsored the competition, called Project REACH (Real-time Electronic Access for Caregivers and Homeless), in collaboration with the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation and the Departments of Housing and Urban Development and Health and Human Services.

Alpharetta, GA - April 15, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- This beautiful, traditional home in Suwanee Georgia is wonderful for a family as it offers five bedrooms and four baths. As you walk thru the home you will be able to imagine all the entertaining th...

Reston, Virginia - April 15, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- MERSCORP Holdings, Inc. today announced that a three-judge panel of the Michigan Court of Appeals recently affirmed a lower court decision in favor Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS) and three other defendants, dismissing a five-count wrongful foreclosure complaint.