Yearly Archives: 2013

Bergen County, NJ - October 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rebuilding Together Bergen County and the American Red Cross have joined forces to help bring 30 Bergen County homes flooded by Hurricane Sandy back to safe and healthy housing conditions. Thanks to a $500,000 Red Cross grant, homeowners in Little Ferry and Moonachie will finally be rebuilding their lives and returning to their homes. Part of this funding will go to making critical repairs on homes in Moonachie in October and next January as part of Kickoff to Rebuild, an NFL-sanctioned event hosted by Rebuilding Together, in advance of next year’s Superbowl XVIII in the Meadowlands

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - October 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Good morning. Thank you, Secretary Skinner, for that kind introduction, and thanks for inviting me here today. I’m grateful to have the opportunity to talk about the housing market with you, and in my own hometown no less. Although I now spend most of the week in Washington, I’m proud to call Baltimore my home

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes fell two points in October from a downwardly revised reading in the previous month to a level of 55 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) released today

San Francisco, CA - October 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Zephyr agents Isabelle Grotte and Tara Donohue are pleased to announce the listing of 1624 20th Street in Potrero Hill for $2,495,000. This big and beautiful stately residence was built in 1928, and more recently experienced the sophisticated ministrations of renowned interior decorator John Wheatman, who retired in 2009

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- In an effort to eliminate some of the barriers to entry for vacation rental home owners and professional managers, HomeAway, Inc. (NASDAQ: AWAY), the world’s leading online marketplace for vacation rentals, today officially launches two new services; a pay-per-booking model and its new Professional Referral Network.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- As part of Fannie Mae’s continued effort to provide greater transparency to the marketplace, Fannie Mae will begin publication of monthly loan level disclosure for single-family mortgage-backed securities (MBS) starting in December. The monthly loan level disclosure file will contain loans underlying single-family MBS with issue dates beginning on or after January 1, 2013. The first monthly loan level disclosure file will be published on the eighth business day of December (December 11, 2013)

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 16, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is releasing a bulletin and interim final rule to provide greater clarity to the market concerning mortgage servicing rules that take effect in January 2014. The clarifications address communications with family members after a borrower dies, contact with delinquent borrowers, and treatment of consumers who have filed for bankruptcy or invoked certain protections under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act

Poughkeepsie, NY - October 16, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Community Preservation Corporation (CPC), The Kearney Realty & Development Group, New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR), elected officials, and residents today celebrated the completion of Poughkeepsie Commons, a newly constructed 71-unit apartment complex for seniors, homeless, and disabled veterans.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - October 16, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Charles “Chuck” Quick, president and CEO of IBERIABANK Mortgage, Little Rock, Ark., has been named to the Real Estate Industry Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

MOONACHIE, NJ - October 16, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rebuilding Together, a national nonprofit organization, is teaming up with Lowe’s and other sponsors to revitalize a Moonachie, N.J., neighborhood as part of Kickoff to Rebuild, an annual NFL-sanctioned event.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 15, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Know an individual, product, company or jurisdiction that has made achieving high-performance buildings a priority? Then nominate them for a 2013 Beyond Green™ High-Performance Building Award. But don’t wait. There are only three weeks left to submit entries.

Atlanta - October 15, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Operation HOPE (HOPE), the leading global financial dignity nonprofit, announced that Ed Jennings of Southeast Region Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and John H. Dalton, former Secretary of the Navy and current President of the Housing Policy Counsel for the Financial Services Roundtable will co-chair the upcoming HOPE Global Financial Dignity Summit (Summit) working group session titled, “Building Wealth through Homeownership, Post Crisis.” The Summit will be hosted from the Georgia International Convention Center in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 13 and 14.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 15, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The HBA will offer CAPS I on Thursday, October 24, 2013 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Learn best practices in communicating and interacting with 50+ customers, and take advantage of one of the fastest growing market segments in remodeling and related industries. [Designation credits: CAPS, CGA, Master CSP] To receive NAHB’s CAPS designation, you must take Business Management for Building Professionals and CAPS II.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 15, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The NRMLA/RiskSpan Reverse Mortgage Market Index (RMMI) rose in Q2 2013 by 3.1 percent to 160.1, its highest level since Q4 2008.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 15, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- On September 24, the Vermont Housing & Conservation Board committed $1.6 million in state and federal funding to conserve six farms with nearly 700 acres of productive agricultural land in Washington, Windham, and Orange Counties

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 14, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- At Development ’13: The Annual Meeting for Commercial Real Estate in San Diego, Calif., this week, NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association, presented awards honoring outstanding achievement and showcasing key industry pillars of creativity, diversity and sustainability.

DENVER - October 11, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- University Park Row Homes is an exceptional new development superbly located between the University of Denver and Observatory Park. Listed exclusively by Liz Richards of Kentwood City Properties, the 12 impressive townhomes range in size from 1,331 to 1,354 finished square feet, each with two bedrooms, two baths, a two-car attached garage with storage area, and an outdoor deck off the master suite. Sales are now underway at base prices starting from $399,000.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 11, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced that it has reached an agreement in principle with SunTrust Banks, Inc., and certain of its subsidiaries (SunTrust) regarding the issuance of $160 million in monetary sanctions. The monetary sanctions would be assessed for unsafe and unsound processes and practices in residential mortgage loans servicing and foreclosure processing

DENVER - October 10, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- RE/MAX, LLC has sold the master franchise rights for the country of Japan, the world’s third-largest economy. This addition increases the significant RE/MAX presence in Asia, further solidifying the largest global reach of all U.S. real estate franchises

WASHINGTON - October 10, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Defaulting on the nation’s federal debt could be disastrous for the U.S. economy and catastrophic for the housing recovery, cautioned the National Association of Realtors® today in testimony before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.