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WASHINGTON, DC - November 23, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit against the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK), the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska and employees of UNK for violating the Fair Housing Act by discriminating against students with disabilities.

TUSTIN, CA - November 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Present Value Properties, Inc., a full service retail real estate brokerage, and consulting firm headquartered in Tustin, Calif., announced today that it has represented Menchie's in six lease transa...

November 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- “The contract proposals made today by the city’s major building owners on a new contract for 22,000 of the city’s commercial office cleaners are an aggressive attempt to rollback wage and benefit standards ...

NEW YORK, NY - November 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- City Comptroller John C. Liu today announced that an audit of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) found that the agency kept $9.8 million in unused funds from expired contr...

Leesburg, VA - November 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Treasurer H. Roger Zurn Jr. reminds taxpayers that the deadline for payment of the second half real property tax is Monday, December 5, 2011. Payments postmarked after December 5, 2011, will incur ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - November 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown today announced that veterans in the Dayton and Chillicothe regions will have access to more than 600 new housing units. The units will be built on U.S. Department of V...

Alexandria, VA - November 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The 362,000-member National Taxpayers Union is warning citizens and urging Congress to oppose the just-introduced conference report on the “Minibus” appropriations bill. The legislation claims to save money, but in reality is a bloated mess, and the cherry on top is a proposed Federal Housing Administration (FHA) rule change to conforming loan limits that would authorize taxpayer backing of a high tier of “jumbo” home loans that ironically would only help roughly the top 1 percent of home purchases

WASHINGTON, D.C. - November 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Boulder Group, a national single tenant net lease investment brokerage firm, has been named the exclusive advisor for the sale of an CVS property at 5422 Bellaire Boulevard in Bellaire, Texas.

NORFOLK, VA - November 18, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Homes Media Solutions, sister real estate brand of For Rent Media Solutions™ and branch of Dominion Enterprises, announced today the expansion of the Homes.com mobile suite with the release of its iPad application for home and rental searches. The Homes.com iPad application joins the company’s widely successful release of home search apps for iPhone, Blackberry, Windows 7 and Android users.

Detroit, MI - November 18, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Detroit-based Quicken Loans Inc., the nation’s largest online lender and a top-five retail mortgage originator, announced it ranked highest in “customer satisfaction” among all home loan lenders in the United States for the second consecutive year in a benchmark study of mortgage origination by J.D. Power and Associates, the global marketing information services company.

Norwalk, CT - November 18, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Registration is now open for the upcoming Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) webcast, IN FOCUS: Understanding the FASB’s Proposals for Investment Companies, Investment Property Entities, and Consolidations. This live webcast, offered free of charge, will take place on Monday, November 28, 2011, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. EST. Participants in the live broadcast will be eligible for up to 1.5 hours of CPE credit. (Please note that CPE credit is not available for group viewing of the live broadcast.)

WASHINGTON, DC - November 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Senator Patrick Leahy (D), Senator Bernie Sanders (I) and Congressman Peter Welch (D) Wednesday announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded Burlington's ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - November 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- 2.7 million of the mortgages made at the height of the housing bubble have ended in foreclosure and at least another 3.6 million likely will fail in the next few years, a new CRL research report shows. That means the nation is not yet midway through a foreclosure crisis that mires the economy.

Dallas, TX - November 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Ebby Halliday Real Estate Inc. today announced that Ellen Terry, Realtors, one of this area’s most respected residential luxury boutiques, is joining with Dave Perry-Miller & Associates, the area’s fastest growing luxury boutique. The office will conduct business as Dave Perry-Miller & Associates, an Ebby Halliday Company, and Lee G. Thomas will continue as office manager. The Ellen Terry, REALTORS operation joins three Dave Perry-Miller & Associates offices located in Preston Center, Highland Park and Uptown. Both firms are owned by Ebby Halliday Real Estate Inc.

IRVINE, CA - November 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Michael Hartel and Kevin Turner of Voit Real Estate Services’ Irvine office have successfully completed a new, ten-year, 12,000 square-foot office lease in Irvine for a total consideration of $1.4 million.

Melville, NY - November 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- US Mortgage Corporation (www.usmortgage.com), a leading national Mortgage Banking company specializing in residential mortgages, today announced the appointment of Perry Silverman as Executive Director of Business Development.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - November 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Woodstock Institute and its Board of Directors are pleased to announce that Spencer Cowan will join Woodstock in December 2011 as Vice President of Applied Research. “Spencer has an exceptional body of work and a strong grounding in the public policy issues at the intersection of housing and community economic development,” said Dory Rand, President of Woodstock Institute.

WASHINGTON, DC - November 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to enter into agreements to provide more than 1,000 additional units of permanent and transitional housing for Veterans at various sites on VA medical center campuses nationwide.

San Francisco, CA - November 15, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Bank today announced the results of the 2011 election for one nonmember independent director position, one California member director position, and one Nevada member director position on i...

Orange County, CA - November 15, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Donna Puzifera has won the coveted award for best interior design from Home Aid Orange County’s Project Playhouse’s 20th annual event. The top honors came after a weeklong vote. Playhouse ...