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WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 15, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rex McKown, Marcy Weinstein and Lili Kung Peters closed out 2012 with a bang, having facilitated the sale of a Newport Coastestate listed at just under $9 million.

New York, NY - January 15, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The largest privately-held real estate company in the United States, Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc., dramatically increased its range of exclusive market coverage for use of the Christie’s brand to market luxury homes valued at US$1M and above. The company, the exclusive Affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate already assigned the network’s most vast market coverage, increases that range by a third. The company now holds claim to the states of Delaware and Maryland, including Annapolis; Bucks County in Pennsylvania; Washington, D.C.; Berkley, Morgan, and Jefferson counties in West Virginia, and the Lynchburg, Roanoke, and Hampton Roads areas of Virginia.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 15, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- InterContinental Hotels & Resorts has been awarded the World’s Leading Hotel Brand for the fourth year running, as well as World’s Leading Business Hotel for the second year in a row at the Grand Final Ceremony of the 2012 World Travel Awards in New Delhi, India.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 14, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- January 14, 2013) The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International announces the release of its newest publication, Building Systems Desk Reference: The Property Professional’s Guide to Building Systems Maintenance. A unique publication within the commercial real estate industry, this desk reference provides property professionals with a comprehensive guide, written in layman’s terms, to the mechanical systems used in commercial buildings.

New York, NY - January 14, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, President Clinton announced that the William J. Clinton Foundation will provide the Mission of Hope Housing Community in Leveque, Haiti with approximately 40 solar streetlights and will work with staff to solarize a school being constructed in the community. The Clinton Foundation will also work with the Mission of Hope agricultural team to explore the opportunity to install a solar drip irrigation system

WASHINGTON, DC - January 14, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- As part of National Radon Action Month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today steps the public can take to test, fix and save a life from dangerous radon gas.

Boston, MA - January 14, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Nixon Peabody LLP will promote 13 attorneys, including eight female lawyers, to its partnership effective February 1, 2013.

Inlanta Mortgage has welcomed several new employees over the last year, but only one of them can call himself the “Super-Intern.” Although Super-Intern is an unofficial title, it really sums up how Jared Wittman’s internship at Inlanta Mortgage i...

San Francisco, CA - January 14, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Periodically, Zephyr Real Estate has recognized members of its organization for distinguished service to the San Francisco community. The awards take the form of a large piece of marble with gold lettering that is informally referred to as a “Golden Z Award.” The first Golden Z Awards were given out in 2002, and only 13 total have been awarded to date, including the last one in 2010. In a recent announcement, another worthy individual was added to the list of recipients – Jim Beitzel from Zephyr’s Upper Market office.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 14, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Fluoride Free Houston will be holding a potluck community dinner, and film screening for those who are interested in getting involved and learning more about why we are opposed to water fluoridation.

Hauppauge, NY - January 14, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- County Executive Bellone reminds Suffolk County residents, who are eligible, to participate in HEAP, a federally funded program that issues heating benefits to supplement a household’s annual ene...

SACRAMENTO, CA - January 14, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Small, nonfarm businesses in 29 Utah counties and neighboring counties in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and New Mexico are now eligible to apply for low-interest federal disaster loans from the U. S. Small Business Administration (SBA). “These loans offset economic losses because of reduced revenues caused by the drought that began on September 1, 2012, in the following primary counties,” announced Alfred E. Judd, Director of SBA’s Disaster Field Operations Center-West

Chesthill Hill, MA - January 14, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Saul B. Cohen, President of Hammond Residential Real Estate, has announced the firm’s highest priced sales for the fourth quarter of 2012 and for the full calendar year.

Voorhees, NJ - January 14, 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.

Northbrook, IL - January 14, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm specializing in single tenant assets, has completed the sale of a net leased Orscheln Farm & Home property located at 718 4th Street i...

Northbrook, IL - January 14, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Boulder Group’s Research Department has released a new research report providing comprehensive numbers and analysis of the 4th quarter activity in the National Net Lease Market

WASHINGTON, DC - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The CFPB’s final Ability to Repay/Qualified Mortgage regulation will be a defining force for all mortgage lending. The Roundtable and its Housing Policy Council share the primary goal of the rule to ensure that borrowers have the ability to repay a mortgage loan. We appreciate the open process the Bureau has followed in preparing this rule by engaging all stakeholders in discussions of the rule and its implications

Chicago, IL - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Chicago Agent releases the highly anticipated 2012 online edition of its Real Data residential reference guide. Chicago Agent magazine released the highly anticipated annual edition of Real Data, the...

SALISBURY, MD - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Brent Miller, CCIM, CPM, Managing Director of Sperry Van Ness – Miller Commercial Real Estate recently attended the CRE Brokerage Owners Success Summit at Duke University. The two day class was moderated by The Massimo Group, North America’s leading commercial real estate consulting and coaching organization.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released rules today designed to prevent mortgage lenders from making risky, unaffordable loans. These ability-to-repay rules require that lenders document and verify information demonstrating that a borrower can afford a loan and define a class of mortgages, called Qualified Mortgages (QM), that are presumed to comply with the ability-to-repay rules.