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Las Vegas, NV - January 13, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- LORI BALLEN , a leading real estate professional with KELLER WILLIAMS REALTY in LAS VEGAS, NEVADA who was previously awarded with the Internet Marketing Specialist designation for her proficiency i...

Washington, DC - January 12, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Representatives Mike Thompson (CA-1), Zoe Lofgren (CA-16) and Anna Eshoo (CA-14) led a group of 25 California Members of Congress in calling on President Barack Obama to address the housing crisis...

Washington, DC - January 12, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Two years after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti, the process of rebuilding has taken another step forward with the selection of Burtland Granvil, AIA, LEED AP, as the new Architecture for Humanity Sustainability Design Fellow.

NEW YORK, NY - January 12, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- HOK is the U.S. Green Building Councilfs official design partner for Project Haiti, a facility targeting LEEDR Platinum certification that will replace a Port-au-Prince orphanage and childrenfs center devastated by the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that rocked Haiti and killed 316,000 people two years ago, on Jan. 12, 2010.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today Mayor Edwin M. Lee and Supervisor Malia Cohen today introduced a resolution at the Board of Supervisors to ensure that major redevelopment projects, such as Mission Bay, the Hunters Poin...

Newark, NY - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- New Jersey’s office building cleaners have ratified a new four-year contract that protects the healthcare coverage of more than 7,000 workers and raises their wages by 13 percent over the life of the contract. The ratification votes came in meetings at 10 locations around the state, from Paterson to Morristown to Trenton, with the last in Newark and Jersey City this afternoon. Building cleaners at all the meetings overwhelmingly approved an agreement reached December 27th between the 32BJ Bargaining Committee and the New Jersey Contractors Association, which represents building cleaning companies.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- By an overwhelming margin, American voters strongly value homeownership and would oppose efforts to weaken or eliminate the mortgage interest deduction or diminish a federal role to help qualified home buyers obtain affordable 30-year mortgages, according to a new nationwide survey gauging likely voters’ attitudes towards homeownership and housing policy issues.

WASHINGTON, DC - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Urban Land Institute (ULI) is pleased to announce the addition of two new staff members filling key policy and communications positions: widely recognized housing expert Lynn M. Ross has been named executive director for the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing; and award-winning real estate journalist Elizabeth Razzi has taken the position of editor-in-chief of Urban Land, ULI’s print and online magazine.

San Bernardino CA - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Colliers International, the third largest global real estate services organization, has completed an unprecedented sale of a newly developed neighborhood center in San Bernardino, Calif. Built ...

WASHINGTON, DC - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today that it is making available $110 million in grants to transform public and assisted housing and to revitalize communities. Appearing in today’s Federal Register is the Notice of Funding Availability, the federal application, for the FY 2012 Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Program. Read HUD’s funding notice.

WASHINGTON, DC - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- As part of its continuing effort to provide quality housing counseling to the nation's homeowners, buyers and renters, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced the availability of $2 million in grants for housing counseling training. HUD's goal is to fund eligible organizations to deliver training across the full spectrum of counseling services.

Denver, CO - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. housing market will continue a slow recovery in 2012, led by stabilizing home prices and increasing sales. Those are among the key findings of a year-end survey of one thousand RE/MAX real estate agents who say housing’s vital signs are gaining strength. The quarterly RE/MAX Market Insights survey provides analysis of the national housing market from the perspective of active RE/MAX agents around the country

Las Vegas, NV - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Ballen Group, a top team of Las Vegas Short Sale Specialists under the brokerage Keller Williams Realty Las Vegas has put together a comprehensive Las Vegas Short sale system for sellers. Homeo...

Washington, DC - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- NeighborWorks America, one of the largest sources of community development capital in the U.S. , today announced that the NeighborWorks network invested more than $1.3 billion into rental housing in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2011. In addition, the number of rental homes owned or managed by the NeighborWorks network exceed 90,000 at Sept. 30.

Orlando, FL - January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Orlando mortgage lender FBC recently released their yearend Central Florida Mortgage Report for 2011. Based on all of the data 2011 may be viewed as the year the mortgage and housing market leveled o...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The American Dream is under attack. Lawmakers and regulators are crafting proposals that, if left unchecked, will harm home owners, home buyers, the housing market and the nation’s economy. On Thursday, January 12, Columbia’s home builders, Realtors and other industry professionals will join political, business and community leaders for a rally on the steps of the South Carolina State House to tell policymakers that homeownership still works in America and needs our strong support.

NEW WINDSOR, N.Y. - January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Grove at New Windsor will officially open its doors to the public after completing one of the most successful presales programs in Orange County in recent memory with an incredible 25 townhomes already reserved at the community.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. - January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Tom Hoch -- a pioneer in revenue-based design and turn-key, design-build interior architecture solutions -- has been selected for renovations at Sportsman’s Country Club, Oklahoma City’s...

January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu hosted a conference call today with Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) to announce that Wisconsin has surpassed its aggressive energy efficiency goal established with the U.S. Depa...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Construction employment increased in December by 17,000 driven by gains in nonresidential construction employment, according to an analysis of new federal employment data released today by the Associated General Contractors of America. Association officials said that construction employment likely benefitted from unseasonably warm weather across much of the country that extended the construction season.