Atlanta, GA - September 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- San Antonio-based Admiral Capital Real Estate Fund and SDM Partners, an Atlanta-based private commercial real estate investment firm, have acquired 200 Ashford Center North, a 160,000-square-foot, six-story Class A office building in Atlanta’s Central Perimeter submarket. SDM Partners’ Managing Principal, Steven D. Martin, led the negotiations on the transaction.

NEW YORK, NY - September 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- On Monday, October 1st, new rent increases approved by the New York City Rent Guidelines Board will begin going into effect, raising the cost of housing for millions of rent stabilized tenants. Fo...

West Hartford, CT - September 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Zack Childress is truly the King of Wholesaling and Business Automation. He has cracked the code on how to automate your real estate marketing process (or any business for that matter) so tha...

WASHINGTON, DC - September 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- New users subscribing to ConsensusDocs set record high numbers as the standard contract document coalition completed its first five years of operation. The coalition, first established in 2007, said it expects to see continued growth in sales as construction activity begins to pick back up after a years-long decline.

BATON ROUGE, LA - September 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- A second State/FEMA Disaster Recovery Center opened Friday in Iberville Parish to assist homeowners, renters and business owners who sustained uninsured or underinsured damage to their home or ...

Washington, DC - September 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- NeighborWorks America issued over $100,000 in grant funds to its partners impacted by Hurricane Isaac in Louisiana and Mississippi. The grants will increase these organizations' capacity to coordinate outreach and volunteer efforts in their targeted communities. Hurricane Isaac devastated the Gulf Coast in August

LANSING - September 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Bill Schuette today announced that claim forms are being mailed to approximately 148,000 Michigan borrowers who lost their home to foreclosure between January 1, 2008 and December 31, ...

TUCSON - September 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Rep. Ron Barber today welcomed announcements that the U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $6.5 million in grants to the University of Arizona for solar-energy research.

Jefferson City, MO - September 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Chris Koster today filed three separate lawsuits against individuals and their companies for misleading Missouri consumers in connection with mortgage-modification services...

WASHINGTON.DC - September 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- After reaching a two-year peak, pending home sales fell in August but are at elevated levels compared with a year ago, according to the National Association of Realtors

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its second quarter 2012 Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Finance Quarterly Data Book. The report includes a summary of major trends during the quarter and detailed charts and tables providing historical information on the commercial/multifamily real estate markets. Among the findings covered in second quarter Data Book:

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA - September 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Satisfaction improves among customers who bundle other policies with their homeowners policy, contributing to higher overall customer satisfaction with homeowner insurance companies, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2012 U.S. National Homeowners Insurance Study^SM released today

CHARLESTON - September 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Darrell McGraw announced today that claim forms are going out to approximately 5,222 West Virginia borrowers who lost their homes to foreclosure between January 1, 2008, and Decembe...

BEDFORD, NH - September 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority today released a study that examines the impact of new housing construction on school enrollment in the state. “Housing and School Enrollment in New Hampsh...

Washington, DC - September 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) is pleased to invite Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) to apply to participate in the Capacity Building Initiative training series Innovations in Small Business Lending. CDFIs that are currently engaged in providing loans to small and medium-sized enterprises will be able to attend free trainings that are designed to support their continued growth and expanded capabilities. The series will be provided by Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP (Deloitte).

BATON ROUGE, LA - September 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- A State/FEMA Disaster Recovery Center is open through Friday in West Feliciana Parish to assist homeowners, renters and business owners who sustained uninsured or underinsured damage to their h...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Five federal agencies on Wednesday reopened the comment period on a proposed rule to establish margin and capital requirements for swap dealers, major swap participants, security-based swap dealers, and major security-based swap participants for which one of the agencies is the prudential regulator, as required by sections 731 and 764 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

Washington, DC - September 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 adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) contracts, was 3.56 percent based on loans closed in August. There was a decrease of 0.10 percent from the previous month. In March of 2012, FHFA began calculating interest rates using un-weighted survey data.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - September 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- North and South Carolina REALTORS® (SCR) joint Annual Conference and Expo, ComeTogether, was a big success with more than 700 REALTORS® from across both states in attendance. The event was hel...

Washington, DC - September 26, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac completed more than 129,000 foreclosure prevention actions in the second quarter of 2012, bringing the total foreclosure prevention actions to 2.4 million since the start of conservatorship in 2008 with 1.2 million of those actions being permanent loan modifications. These actions, which have helped more than 2 million borrowers stay in their homes, are detailed in the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s second quarter 2012 Foreclosure Prevention Report, also known as the Federal Property Manager’s Report.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today joined Bret Baier on Fox News. “I hope he gets through this week … The confirmation hearing will happen tomorrow in the Intelligence Committee. They will report him out. We will take him up as soon as we can, but that will take some cooperation from Democrats. If they want to, they can slow-walk it

Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, and Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Mark Takano (D-CA) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner signed by over 120 House Democrats urging the immediate withdrawal of HUD’s proposed rule, “Equal Access to Housing in HUD Programs Revisions,”

On Friday, July 17, 2026, Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ) signed onto a bipartisan letter led by Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV) urging House leadership to include emergency funding for the Colorado River Basin in the upcoming supplemental appropriations package.

As a leader on the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, Senator Reverend Warnock secured the defining provisions of the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, the largest housing package in a generation

U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) are highlighting a new congressional report showing that Virginia families have had to spend more than $2,900 extra on a wide range of goods, including everyday essentials, since President Trump took office last year. This new data details the rising costs facing families across the Commonwealth, including higher prices for housing, groceries, gas, electricity, and health care.

Following the Trust Board approval on June 10, a contract has now been executed with Technico Construction Services to plan the renovation of 209 apartments at the Bushwick development/ Contract execution represents first use of the progressive design-build project delivery method at a NYCHA property and is a key step forward in delivering much-needed renovations to the fourth NYCHA development to vote for the Trust

The New York State Division of Consumer Protection (DCP) is alerting consumers about the dangers of television (TV) tip-over hazards. Millions of New Yorkers will watch the Super Bowl this Sunday either on TVs at home or at parties with friends. DCP is taking this TV-focused occasion to remind consumers of critical TV safety tips.

Fast-growing Florida has been a favorite of real estate investors for many years. With so much interest having been focused on the state, though, investors need to take care to seek the best available opportunities.

Office of General Services Commissioner RoAnn Destito today announced that the Senator Walter J. Mahoney State Office Building located at 65 Court Street in Buffalo will be sold at auction in 2020. A work group formed earlier this year made up of City, County, and State officials working with professional real estate consultants CBRE, determined that in the current competitive and robust Buffalo real estate market

The Bureau of Land Management today announced that Karen Mouritsen has been named the new California State Director—a key leadership position based in Sacramento. As State Director, Mouritsen will direct a team that manages lands encompassing 15% of the Golden State’s total land mass

The New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) today announced the opening of the new JLC Recovery and Wellness Center in New York City. JLC is operated by Exponents Inc. and provides free help and support services for people affected by addiction and for their families.

In spite of a robust U.S. economy, a strong employment rate, and steadily increasing 401(k) plan earnings, Black homeownership rates continue to drop. Drawing from the 2019 release of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers

Yesterday, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, asked the Department of the Interior about its commitment to the Yakima River Basin during a hearing on the president’s FY 2017 budget request. Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael Connor agreed with Sen. Cantwell that the Yakima River Basin plan “is a model for the rest of the nation in water management.”

“Consumers Energy is thankful to be a part of holiday celebrations across the state as warm Thanksgiving memories are being made, and we are committed to providing many more generations of Michigan families with reliable, affordable energy in all seasons,” said Garrick Rochow, Consumers Energy’s vice president and chief customer officer

WASHINGTON, D.C. - December 13, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Six federal financial regulatory agencies today issued a final rule that creates exemptions from certain appraisal requirements for a subset of higher-priced mortgage loans. The exemptions are intended to save borrowers time and money while still ensuring that the loans are financially sound

Atlanta, Georgia - November 13, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance (“Department”) entered into a Consent Order with Equity Loans, LLC, License Number 23300, located at 1150 Hammond Dr., Building E, Suite 650, Atlanta, Georgia 30328, to resolve allegations pertaining to violations of the Georgia Residential Mortgage Act