Baltimore, MD - August 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced today that distressed Maryland homeowners have received more than $220 million in relief from the National Mortgage Settlement as of the end of June. Fi...

LOS ANGELES, CA - August 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- A bill sponsored by the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) that closes an important loophole in an applicant’s experience requirements for a real estate broker’s license has been si...

TAVARES, FL - August 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- All offices of the Lake County Board of County Commissioners, Clerk of Courts, Property Appraiser, Supervisor of Elections and Tax Collector will be closed Monday, Sept. 3 in observance of Labor Day

COLUMBUS - August 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced Ohio’s 2011 average auto and homeowners insurance rates were again among the most competitive in the United States. The De...

Torrance, CA - August 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) experienced a facelift this summer when construction manager C.W. Driver completed $20 million worth of upgrades at 10 schools located throughout the dis...

August 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- In response to the first progress report issued by the National Mortgage Settlement Monitor Joseph P. Smith, which discloses the five settling mortgage service providers have granted $10.56 billion in consumer reli...

WASHINGTON, DC - August 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- William J. Ferry, a former stock broker and investment advisor, and Dennis J. Clinton, a former real estate investment manager, were found guilty by a federal jury in Santa Ana, Calif., today for t...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- A while ago, we wrote about the quiet, rural community of Vernonia, Oregon, which had been through its share of hard economic times. After two “500-year floods” in an 11-year period devastate...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mortgage applications decreased 4.3 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending August 24, 2012.

WASHINGTON, DC - August 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced a commitment to insure a mortgage loan to St. John’s Lutheran Hospital in Libby, Montana. The $32 million loan is made ...

WASHINGTON, DC - August 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Pending home sales rose in July to the highest level in over two years and remain well above year-ago levels, according to the National Association of Realtors®.

West Hartford, CT - August 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- At the September 2012 CT REIA Monthly Meeting, Alan Cowgill will show you how you can get all the money you need to buy single-family houses, commercial buildings, apartment complexes, or luxury...

Chicago, IL - August 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced that her office has distributed $4.7 million in funding from the national foreclosure settlement reached earlier this year to LAF (Legal Assistance Founda...

TAVARES - August 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Many times, offenders who are released on probation battle poverty, joblessness, homelessness and various other circumstances that make it difficult for them to re-enter society as productive citizens. In...

August 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mark Udall urged homeowners in and around the High Park Fire and Waldo Canyon Fire burn areas to purchase federal flood insurance before waivers for the normal 30-day waiting period for coverage expires. The deadli...

BATON ROUGE - August 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Following a very limited federal disaster declaration by the President of the United States that only granted a portion of the state’s request, Governor Bobby Jindal sent a letter to the federal gov...

Kansas City, MO - August 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- In cities across the Greater Kansas City Metropolitan Area, housing production continues to climb in 2012 with the second highest month this year, according to the Home Builders Association of Gre...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Construction employment declined in 165 out of 337 metropolitan areas between July 2011 and July 2012, increased in 123 and was stagnant in 49, according to a new analysis of federal employment data released today by the Associated General Contractors of America. Association officials said that the new data comes out as many metro areas continue to struggle with constricting public sector budgets and uneven private sector growth.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Thomas E. Perez, the Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, and John Trasviña, Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”), announced today that GFI Mortgage Bankers Inc., a large independent home mortgage firm that concentrates on the New York, New Jersey, and Florida markets, will pay $3.555 million to resolve a lending discrimination lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

WASHINGTON, DC - August 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Realtors® help people achieve the dream of homeownership, but are often also homeowners themselves. A new offer through the REALTOR Benefits® Program will help members of the National Association of Realtors® who own homes prolong the life of their air conditioning and heating systems.