Housing & Development

WASHINGTON, D.C. - March 30, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Students at Lely High School’s Construction Academy worked with an unusual team of apprentices for their community service project on March 29. More than 20 former NFL football players from around the country, along with volunteers from the Collier Building Industry Foundation, spent the afternoon with the students pounding nails instead of opposing players as they constructed storage sheds for homes built by Habitat for Humanity of Collier County.

WASHINGTON, DC - March 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced that more than 1,200 extremely low-income persons living with HIV/AIDS will continue to receive permanent housing as a result of nearly $33 million in grants HUD is awarding. Annually, these grants will provide permanent supportive housing for over 1,200 households so they can manage their health and access needed supportive services such as case management and employment training.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - March 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Barry Rutenberg, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and a home builder from Gainesville, Fla., today issued the following statements regarding S. 2245, the Preserve Waters of the United States Act. Introduced by Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and 29 other Senators from across the country, this legislation will prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) from using a draft guidance to dramatically expand the scope of the Clean Water Act

Fort Lauderdale, FL - March 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- RE/MAX Preferred is opening a new location in Gables Wilton Park, a new mixed-use residential project in the heart of Wilton Manors, a diverse community with a population of approximately 12,80...

WASHINGTON, DC- March 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Seven Michigan housing agencies will receive more than $1.3 million in grants to help provide housing for homeless veterans, Sens. Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow announced Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - March 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Security officers by the hundreds will rally in support of colleagues who work for private security contractor U.S. Security Associates (USSA) at the Sony Corporation’s North American headquarters building on Madison Avenue. USSA has repeatedly stood in the way of workers’ attempts to gain better working conditions, wages, training and benefits by violating workers’ rights to organize.

WASHINGTON, DC - March 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- A new Urban Land Institute survey of 38 leading real estate economists and analysts from across the United States projects broad improvements for the nation’s economy, real estate capital markets, real estate fundamentals and the housing industry through 2014. The findings, released today, mark the start of a semi-annual survey of economists, the ULI Real Estate Consensus Forecast, being conducted by the ULI Center for Capital Markets and Real Estate. The survey results show reason for optimism throughout much of the real estate industry. Over the next three years:

WEST ORANGE, N.J. - March 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Vizcaya, the luxury gated community in West Orange, will introduce a new furnished model Townhome this May that demonstrates the full potential of the new floor plan designs.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - March 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- According to the New York City Quarterly Housing Update (Q4 2011) released by NYU's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, home sales volume continued to decline in the fourth quarter of 2011, with the number of transactions citywide down 15 percent from the previous quarter and 11 percent from the fourth quarter of 2010.

Washington, D.C., March 27, 2012 – The American Institute of Architects (AIA) announced its support for the International Green Construction Code (IgCC), a new model code expected to help conserve energy in both commercial buildings and residential structures while providing direction for safe and sustainable building design and construction. The International Code Council (ICC) will publish the IgCC tomorrow, March 28.

NEW YORK, NY - March 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York today introduced a new interactive online tool providing mortgage delinquency and foreclosure information for each county in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

WASHINGTON, DC - March 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Chris Murphy today announced that the Waterbury Housing Authority will receive $257,629 for 40 vouchers to help the region's homeless veteran population through the U.S. Department of Ho...

March 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Thomas M. Menino hosted hundreds of homeowners and potential homebuyers at the Boston Home Center’s Housing Expo at the Perkins Community Center where he launched the new $3M 3D Campaign. The 3D Campaign i...

BOSTON, MA - March 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- MassHousing announced today that it has closed a $6.1 million loan for the acquisition, preservation and renovation of the 45-unit Lucerne Gardens in Dorchester.

Largo, MD - March 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler joined U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today for an informal roundtable discussion of the $25 billion National Mortgage Servicing S...

March 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Montgomery County Department of Housing and Community Affairs (DHCA), in partnership with the Montgomery County Housing Fair Committee, will host the 12th Annual Montgomery County Housing Fair and Financial Fitn...

ANNAPOLIS, MD - March 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Governor Martin O’Malley today released the following statement on the National Association of Realtors’ housing report:

WASHINGTON, DC - March 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- ABA Housing Partners Foundation announced today its partnership with the California Bankers Association to build a Habitat for Humanity home in San Diego. The two groups will work together to raise donations from member banks across the country to fund the foundation’s second build in San Diego at the American Bankers Association’s annual convention in October 2012.

WASHINGTON, DC - March 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki announced today that HUD will provide $72.6 million to public housing agencies in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to supply permanent housing and case management for more than 10,000 homeless veterans.

Washington, DC - March 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today reported that the National Average Contract Mortgage Rate for the Purchase of Previously Occupied Homes by Combined Lenders, used as an index in some ARM contracts, was 4.08 percent based on loans closed in February. Beginning this month, FHFA is calculating interest rates using un-weighted survey data. For January, a comparable rate based on unweighted data would have been 4.18 percent.