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ROCHESTER, NY - December 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Attorney Anastasios “Taso” Kolokouris, 28, of Avon, N.Y., has been arrested and charged by Criminal Complaint with violating the Clean Air Act asbestos work practice standards involving a...

San Francisco, CA - December 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) --Mayor Edwin M. Lee today announced that the U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded San Francisco $18.9 million in HUD’s Continuum of Care grants to fund a wide variety of progra...

Norwalk, CT - December 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) have announced they will host a series of public roundtable meetings—including one in the United States—to discuss their proposals to improve and converge financial reporting by setting forth consistent criteria for determining whether an entity is an investment company. The U.S. roundtable will also include a discussion about the FASB’s proposed Accounting Standards Update, Real Estate—Investment Property Entities (Topic 973), which develops accounting guidance for entities focused on investing in real estate properties. The roundtables are designed to provide interested stakeholders the opportunity to engage in dialogue with FASB and IASB members and staff about the proposals.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - December 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The New Haven mayor will join building cleaners rallying for fair wages at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the corner of Church and Elm streets downtown. The rally comes as the December 31st contract expiration date ticks closer for the more than 2,000 building cleaners in New Haven and Hartford represented by 32BJ. Building cleaners began their contract talks with employers in mid-November. But with the two sides still far apart, the building cleaners voted last week to authorize their bargaining committee to call a strike if a fair agreement cannot be reached.

INLAND EMPIRE, CA - December 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Voit Real Estate Services’ San Diego office has successfully directed the $8.5 million acquisition of Margarita Center, a 60,390 square-foot retail property located at 39520-40 Murrieta Ho...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - December 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Robert Menendez; State Senators Ray Lesniak (D-Union) and Ron Rice (D-Essex); and Assemblywoman Annette Quijano (D-Union) will join a rally of New Jersey building cleaners in Newark today to call for employers to agree to a fair contract for the 7,000 men and women who keep New Jersey office buildings clean, safe and sanitary. The brief rally will be held outside the Hilton at Gateway Center in Newark during a break in contract talks going on inside the building. Elected officials are taking a public stand six days after 2,000 building cleaners from around the state marched through downtown Newark and voted to authorize their union's bargaining committee to call a strike if a fair agreement is not reached before the union contract expires at 12:01 a.m. on January 1st.

WASHINGTON, DC - December 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Urban Land Institute (ULI), a global research and education organization dedicated to responsible land use, celebrated 75 years of leadership in community building last week with a series of events in communities throughout the United States – including meetings with the mayors of Washington D.C. and Philadelphia -- that highlight the institute’s legacy of shaping and enhancing the built environment.

Funding supports Obama Administration strategy to prevent and end homelessness WASHINGTON – U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan today awarded $1.47 billion...

LAGUNA HILLS, CA - December 20, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- From rental restrictions to electric vehicles and electronic meeting notices, Californians living in homeowners associations will see several new laws governing their communities starting Janua...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - December 20, 2011 - (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.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - December 16, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) reported a 2.1 percent decline in the number of people experiencing homelessness on a given night in January 2011. The number of homeless people, based on counts conducted by localities and states across the nation (called Point-In-Time [PIT] counts), decreased from 649,917 to 636,017. Among the other notable findings presented in the PIT report was a 12 percent decrease among veterans experiencing homelessness between 2010 and 2011.

December 15, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lila Delman Real Estate announced the sale of the Horatio N. Campbell House, a landmark property on the East Side of Providence. The home at 189 Hope Street is an 8000 square French inspired mansion with 10 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms. Lila Delman Real Estate sales associates Lisa Cutropia and Ben Scungio represented the buyer.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - December 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Nan Roman, President and CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness has been selected as one of the 17 members serving on the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) Housing Commission

Albany, - December 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) $194 Million Plan Will Create More Than 6,000 jobs Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today travelled to Stony Brook to sign the Stony Brook University 2020 challenge grant application that proposes a $194 million p...

BIRMINGHAM - December 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- An Illinois man pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to an Internet auction scam in which he advertised and sold property in northwestern Alabama that he did not own or never provided title for aft...

Charlotte, NC - December 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- With new regulations and policies affecting the mortgage industry and increased closing timelines for loans , LendingTree.com, the nation’s leading online lender exchange and personal finance resource, today released a list of the top five documents prospective borrowers should have before entering the loan process.

CHICAGO, IL - December 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Leading Real Estate Companies of the World^® has joined forces with Colonial Life to offer network members a single source for health, life and personal insurance for both employees and sales associates.

SEATTLE, WA - December 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Impact Capital, a non?profit community development financial institution (CDFI) operating in Washington State, has named Judith Olsen as its new Executive Director. Olsen, currently Vice President and Community Development Officer at Wells Fargo in Oregon, will succeed Heyward Watson, who is retiring at the end of 2011. Olsen will start in her new position on January 9, 2012.

WASHINGTON, DC - December 13, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development today announced that a new national report shows that homelessness among Veterans has been reduced by nearly 12 percent between January 2010 and January 2011. The 12 percent decline keeps the Obama Administration on track to meet the goal of ending Veteran homelessness in 2015.

Swope Lees Commercial Real Estate - December 12, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch, in conjunction with Swope Lees Commercial Real Estate, LLC, and SeedCo PA, an arm of the Chester County Economic Development Agency, and the developer, Lincoln Park Partners, L.P., announce, with pleasure, the newly formed Preferred Lender Program to streamline the delivery of the Small Business Administration (SBA) 504 Loan Program