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RICHMOND - January 16, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Home Builders Association of Virginia and Virginia Regional Transit have endorsed "Virginia's Road to the Future", the comprehensive, long-term transportation funding plan proposed by Governor Bob M...

DETROIT, - January 16, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Detroit-based Quicken Loans Inc., the nation’s largest online home lender and third largest retail mortgage lender, today announced it has been named to the top-30 of FORTUNE Magazine’s annual “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for the 10th consecutive year. The company earned a 13th place ranking in the magazine’s benchmark study of workplace satisfaction, making it the highest ranked Michigan-based business and mortgage lender on the list.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 16, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- BOMA International and BOMI International’s top volunteer leaders recently met to discuss collaboration in the coming year. The leaders identified specific areas of cooperation to further enhance the value of one another’s educational offerings, including increased coordination around asset management and sustainability/high-performance building education, combined efforts to support BOMA International’s new career day (to be held in conjunction with the BOMA Annual Conference in San Diego, California, this June), and other efforts to promote property management as a career

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 16, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Family and Youth Services Bureau is deeply grateful to all of our Runaway and Homeless Youth Program grantees, who work tirelessly every day to meet the federal government’s goal of ending...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 16, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Ordnance Survey, Great Britain’s national mapping agency, and RICS are working together to remind land and property professionals to ensure that they are not risking their professional reputat...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 16, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- In March 2008 Fairfax County, VA, approved their Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness and soon afterwards, the County's Office to Prevent and End Homelessness (OPEH) partnered with Good Shepherd Ho...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 16, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) announced today that its subsidiary Wells Fargo Securities, LLC has joined the CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives exchange and clearing house, as a direct listed futures and options clearing member.

January 16, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Having worked as a sales and marketing professional for more than 20 years, Susan McDonnell—a highly sought-after agent who also boasts a few years of interior design on her resume — proves one of the area’s most valuable resources when it comes to residential real estate.

Ridgefield, CT - January 16, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Beautifully sited on nearly 8.5 secluded acres in the quaint village of Ridgefield,Connecticut, the remarkable Melody Ridge estate reflects a timeless sense of refinement with all the sensibility of modern conveniences. Custom-designed for a prominent music executive and his family, this technologically advanced house encompasses state-of-the-art electronics including a private home recording studio, and is listed with Neumann Real Estate at US$3,895,000.

WASHINGTON, DC - January 16, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Internal Revenue Service today announced a simplified option that many owners of home-based businesses and some home-based workers may use to figure their deductions for the business use of their homes

NATIONWIDE - January 16, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Daniel Hu, Director of NAI Capital’s new Asia Pacific Group (APG), joined NAI Apollo (Germany) in Seoul, Korea Nov 29th—Dec 1st for NAI Global’s Asia Pacific Regional Meeting 2012. This conference brought together commercial real estate professionals from Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, India, and Japan to help solidify shared objectives and open up new lines of communication for moving business forward in 2013 and beyond.

January 15, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Domenic J. Sarno announced today that the city has received final approval from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Housing & Community Development, on Springfield’s Market Rate Housing I...

NEW YORK, NY and TROY, MI. - January 15, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Morgan Stanley, The Kresge Foundation and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) have launched a first-of-its kind $100 million investment fund that is designed to expand access to health care and affordable housing for low-income residents and fund critical social services that help link the two in impoverished neighborhoods.

La Jolla, CA - January 15, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Southern California's housing market ended 2012 with the highest December home sales in three years, the result of robust investment activity, a record level of cash buyers and more sales gains in move-up markets. The median sale price jumped nearly 20 percent from a year ago, pushed higher by greater demand and the market's shift away from foreclosure resales and toward more mid- to high-end deals, a real estate information service reported.

New York, NY - January 15, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- SL Green Realty Corp (NYSE: SLG) today announced that WPP Group, USA, Inc. which is part of the world's largest communications services group, with 3,000 offices in 110 countries, has renewed its le...

Mt. Laurel, NJ - January 15, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Metro Commercial, the region’s largest full-service retail real estate firm, announced today the sale of 3.85 acres in Voorhees, NJ to J&J Development Group, LLC for $775,000.

CUPERTINO, SILICON VALLEY, USA - January 15, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Governance and Community Philanthropy veteran, David Casas, teams with Intero Real Estate Services to manage and expand the company's strategic relationships with legislators and global communities. Mr. Casas will work directly with local, state, and federal governments, as well as directing relationships with communities-based, regulatory, and advocacy organizations

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 15, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mortgage Cadence LLC, a leading provider of Enterprise Lending Solutions (ELS), Document Services, Compliance and Default Servicing Technology for the financial services industry, announced today its readiness to meet the new Qualified Mortgage (QM) Rules released on January 10, 2013 by the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. The Rules are slated to go into effect on January 1, 2014

WASHINGTON, DC - January 15, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- To stem the loss of critically needed public and other forms of subsidized housing due to the severe backlog of capital needs, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today offi...

January 15, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Institutions of higher learning are investing heavily in new facilities—student unions, dining facilities, residence halls, and the like—that address the non-academic side of campus life. They rarely serve jus...