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ATLANTA, GEORGIA - January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Harry Norman, Realtors® teamed up with the Atlanta Board of Realtors® and Habitat for Humanity to construct a home for a family in need. The house, 3146 Delowe Drive in East Point, Ga., is the Board’s 11th home build project

San Francisco, CA - January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Zephyr Real Estate is pleased to announce its new headquarters location at 850 Seventh Street in San Francisco. This new South of Market office reflects Zephyr’s reputation as a modern, tech-oriented, forward-thinking company. The expanded office space affords ample room for the growing Zephyr team in an environment representative of the company’s commitment to creativity, diversity and results-oriented customer care.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Members of Rebuilding Together’s AmeriCorps program, CapacityCorps, will dedicate the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service to rebuilding homes and revitalizing communities in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

WASHINGTON, DC - January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Chicago Transit Authority’s (CTA) Wilson Station in Uptown Chicago has tremendous potential for attracting developers and business investors, according to widely renowned land use experts from the Urban Land Institute (ULI). This week, ULI released the written report of the ULI Governors Advisory Panel it conducted in 2012

Washington, DC - January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling made the following comments about the Ability to Repay and Qualified Mortgage rule released by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today

GREENWOOD VILLAGE - January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Erica Chouinard, an accomplished real estate professional since 2001, has joined Kentwood Real Estate as a Broker Associate. Chouinard and her experienced team of selling brokers are now serving the diverse real estate needs of clients from The Kentwood Company in the Denver Tech Center.

January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Assemblyman Greg McGuckin said a proposal by an Assembly Democrat lawmaker to establish a state agency to oversee the rebuilding of Jersey Shore towns that were damaged by Super Storm Sandy may be well intended, b...

Washington, D.C. - January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) release on Thursday of a final rulemaking implementing key provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act cements in place important consumer protections in the mortgage market, CFA said today.

Reston, Virginia - January 10, 2012 - (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 MERSCORP Holdings, Inc. Communications department with any questions and visit the MERS Newsroom for a full list of news releases.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has created an energy analysis tool to help individuals and educators experiment with future energy use scenarios. The interactive Buildings, Industry, Transportation, Electricity, and Transportation Scenarios (BITES) allows users to explore how changes in energy demand and supply can impact carbon dioxide emissions and the current U.S. energy trajectory.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Day 3 of Building Innovation 2013—The National Institute of Building Sciences Annual Conference and Expo, activities continued with the Integrated Resilient Design Symposium, FEDCon® 2013, the second day of educational sessions at the buildingSMART alliance Conference and the kickoff of a new project with the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s new rules generally strike a balanced, reasonable approach to mortgage lending and implement important consumer protections. The standard CFPB establishes for a safe, well-underwritten mortgage is appropriately broad enough to include the vast majority of creditworthy home owners, and it is clear enough for lenders and borrowers alike to understand. And the rules preserve legal protection for borrowers with the riskiest loans

ORLANDO, FL – Stiles Realty announced today the leasing of 49,000 square feet of office space to several fast-growing Central Florida firms at the Class A Baldwin Park Office Complex in Orlando. This brings the property to approximately 93 percent le...

Reston, Virginia - January 09, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- MERSCORP Holdings, Inc. today announced that the United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Tenth Circuit held that Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS) is a mortgagee in its capacity as nominee for the lender and its successors and assigns, that there is nothing impermissible in this arrangement and that “[a]t all times, the Note and Mortgage were united.”

WASHINGTON, DC - January 09, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- With 11 months of data reported, 2012 will clearly go down as a record year for favorable housing affordability conditions, and a great year for buyers who could get a mortgage, according to the National Association of Realtors®.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 08, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Housing and Economic Recovery Act (HERA) of 2008 made statutory changes to how income limits are calculated for LIHTC and bond-financed properties. HERA protected owners from rent decreases in 2009, and established a new system for owners to hold their income limits and rents harmless beginning in 2010.

San Antonio, TX - January 08, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- USAA Real Estate Co. is pleased to welcome Thomas V. Bermingham as managing director of investments, overseeing acquisition, development and joint venture opportunities for USAA Real Estate Co.’s newly opened Northeast regional office, located in New York City. In his role, Bermingham will work with USAA’s investment management team to refine asset strategy in key northeast markets including New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Boston.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 04, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will help develop microbes that convert methane found in natural gas into liquid diesel fuel, a novel approach that if successful could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lower dependence on foreign oil.

Houston, TX - January 03, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Crimson Real Estate Fund, L.P. (CREF), and its co-investment partner, USAA Real Estate Company, have acquired eight acres of land in west Houston to build a new headquarters for TGS-Nopec Geophysical Company (TGS). At approximately 97,500 rentable square feet, the 3-story office building and 408 surface parking spaces will be built on Clay Road, near Beltway 8.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 03, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Nearly 20 percent of recent movers identified “convenience to job” as the most important factor in their choice of neighborhood in 2011, according to the American Housing Survey, the definitive source of information on the quality of housing in the United States. For the first time ever, the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development have made survey results available on the Census Bureau’s American