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WASHINGTON, DC - October 3, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Harris County Commissioner Gerald R. Eversole and Houston-based real estate developer Michael D. Surface both pleaded guilty today in federal court in Houston to making false statements, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Special-Agent-In-Charge (SAC) Stephen L. Morris of the FBI’s Houston Field Office and SAC Rodney E. Clarke of the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Houston Field Office.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 3, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- AARP’s Public Policy Institute today released a new report that provides a nationwide snapshot of the changing housing landscape for boomers and elders. “The AARP State Housing Profiles” and its brief summary “Housing for Older Adults: The Impacts of the Recession” updates and expands on a 2007 report on housing for Americans 50+ with detailed findings parsed out state-by-state. Conditions have changed greatly for older households during the last decade. Housing has become less affordable for many older adults who currently devote an unsustainable amount of their budget to paying rent or for their home.

MT. PLEASANT, MI - September 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA), the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development (USDA-RD) and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Developm...

BATON ROUGE, LA - September 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Governor Bobby Jindal announced the appointment of Sterling Joe Ory to the Louisiana Real Estate Commission.

SACRAMENTO, CA - September 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- A federal grand jury returned an indictment on Sept. 28, 2011, charging Valeri Mysin, 31, of Citrus Heights, Calif.; Angela Shavlovsky, 52, of Sacramento, Calif.; Nikolay Katinskiy, 28, of Lynwo...

ALBANY, N. Y. - September 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has initiated a program, in coordination with State and local governments, to provide Temporary Housing Units (THUs) to New York communities hard hi...

Washington, DC - September 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- MISMO, the not-for-profit data standards subsidiary of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), presented its Staff Appreciation Award to Leendert (Leo) Bijnagte, Business Systems Consultant at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage. The award, which was announced on September 12th at the MISMO September Trimester Meeting in Broomfield, Colorado, was presented to Bijnagte for his outstanding commitment and service to MISMO.

Newtown Square, PA - September 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Balfour Beatty Communities, LLC announced that it recently broke ground on its Fort Leonard Wood military housing public-private partnership (PPP or P3) project within the U.S. Department of the Army’s Residential Communities Initiative (RCI) Program on the redevelopment construction phase of 160 duplex homes at Fort Leonard Wood. Balfour Beatty Communities will oversee the design, construction, and overall management, maintenance and operational responsibilities for the housing units, which are expected to be completed in 2013.

EUGENE, OR - September 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Searching the Fort Myers MLS (FORTMYERS) just got easier for home seekers, thanks to the partnership between IDX, Inc. and real estate agent Lerin Byrd with Gulfcoast Consulting Group Inc. Potential...

WASHINGTON, DC - September 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today awarded $600,000 to increase hiring of low-income individuals and public housing residents. HUD is awarding twelve housing authorities, cities, and states $50,000 each to hire full-time Section 3 Program Coordinators for one year. These grants will maximize a HUD program that ensures HUD dollars are used to hire low-income individuals and to contract with businesses that hire them.

BOSTON, MA - September 29, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Foreclosure initiations spiked in all the New England states during the recent economic downtown, ranging from a peak of less than 3.0% of outstanding mortgages in Vermont in 2010 to a peak of 5.5% ...

MINNEAPOLIS, MN - September 29, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a 28-year-old Webster man was sentenced for bilking more than $7 million from at least 15 real estate mortgage lending companies between 2005 and 200...

September 29, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Mark Udall called on Colorado homebuilders to use beetle-killed trees from our forests to build homes, thus clearing local forests of hazardous trees and creating homegrown jobs in the process. At an eve...

September 29, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- A former employee of Countrywide Home Loan was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay restitution Wednesday in connection with a large-scale data breach, announced André Birotte Jr., the United States Attorney ...

Washington, DC - September 29, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Pending home sales slipped in August with a mixed regional performance but are higher than a year ago, according to the National Association of Realtors®.

WASHINGTON, DC - September 29, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced today that it is charging the owner and landlord of an apartment building in Reno, Nevada, with violating the Fair Housing Act for evicting two tenants after a friend with a disability visited the tenants with his emotional support dog.

BOISE, ID - September 28, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Idaho Housing and Finance Association (IHFA) and the Idaho Department of Commerce have completed a review of the preliminary draft of the 2011 Analysis of Impediments (AI) report. The AI examines mul...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 28, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- USAA Real Estate Company received high rankings as one of the largest developers in the nation by National Real Estate Investor’s 2011 Best of the Best, an annual survey that tracks trends among the commercial real estate companies in the nation.

WASHINGTON, DC - September 28, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded $649,000 to seven local community organizations. These awards support local organizations serving diverse communities across the country that will help ensure persons who are limited English proficient (LEP) have access to information in their native languages on HUD housing, programs, services, and activities.

WASHINGTON, DC - September 28, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced today that it is charging Craig Robbins, a Springfield, Massachusetts landlord, with violating the Fair Housing Act for alleg...