Yearly Archives: 2011

EUGENE, OR - January 28, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Geri and Karen Sexton have enabled the premier IDX, Inc. software on their website, giving them an IDX solution that automatically extracts raw California Real Estate Technology Services (CARETS) listings and displays the information directly onto their search page. The innovative IDX Broker software helps to simplify the online real estate market for both home seekers and real estate agents and brokers, like the Sextons. Their website now hosts one of the most dynamic property search features available online, making their website a great place to begin the online property search process

San Diego, CA - January 28, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Marilyn Lawhead, a North County REALTOR® with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage’s Encinitas office has been awarded the 2010 Entrepreneur of the Year Award by the North San Diego Chapter of the Women’s Council of REALTORS® (WCR). This annual award recognizes a REALTOR® member who fully exercises their potential as an entrepreneur and real estate industry leader; and who shares their time, talent and expertise with others in the profession and in the community.

NEWPORT BEACH, CA - January 27, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The recent launch of Brookstone Law PC’s Emergency Extension Department (EED) (www.brookstone-law.com), a new resource to help homeowners facing foreclosure keep their homes, achieved timely results for two local seniors by stopping the sale of their home the day before it was scheduled to be sold

Los Angeles, CA - January 27, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Disasters may come anytime,without any notice and without the limit of losses. Steve Slepcevic, founded Paramount Disaster Recovery, Inc. in 1989.Steve Slepcevic provides solutions to business owners to minimize their property damage and provide recovery needs at the actual time. Paramount Disaster Recovery, Inc. provides its clients with best solution in the emergency situations. The emergency response service is the most comprehensive package of disaster recovery in the industry, specifically designed to safeguard your property by allocating the Emergency Response Strike Force at reaction time. Steve Slepcevic will subject your disaster recovery plan to our thorough testing and training programs

EUGENE, OR - January 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Potential buyers in Davis, California now have a great resource for finding homes online: Jamie Madison and IDX, Inc. The newly IDX enabled website features thousands of Metrolist Sacramento detailed property listings. Madison now hosts countless features on her website, which give her clients and other home seekers the unique ability to scan and customize their property search. With such unique search capabilities, it is no wonder that Madison has enabled her own customizable IDX solution for her professional website.

LOS ANGELES, CA - January 25, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- A Tacoma, Washington man has been found guilty of federal fraud charges for running a scheme that defrauded the owners of distressed homes by promising to delay or prevent foreclosure through a program that supposedly used notes backed by Treasury bonds to pay off mortgages.

Torrance, CA - January 25, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Regency Centers (www.regencycenters.com), a national owner, operator and developer of grocery-anchored and community shopping centers, has signed a lease and begun construction on a new Toys “R” Us/Babies “R” Us store at Indio Towne Center in Indio, Calif.

January 24, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Edwin M. Lee today announced that the U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded San Francisco $18.7 million in HUD’s Continuum of Care grants to fund a wide variety of programs from street outreach and assessment programs to transitional and permanent housing for individuals and families experiencing homelessness. The HUD Continuum of Care grants are awarded competitively to local programs to meet the needs of their homeless clients, and this year, 51 San Francisco-based organizations and programs received grant awards.

BAKERSFIELD, CA - January 24, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- David Marshall Crisp, 31; Carlyle Lee Cole, 63; Julie Dianne Farmer, 42; Sneha Ramesh Mohammadi, 49; Jayson Peter Costa, 38; Jeriel Salinas, 29; Robinson Dinh Nguyen, 30; Michael Angelo Munoz, 31; Jennifer Anne Crisp, 29; and Caleb Lee Cole, 35, were charged in a 56-count indictment with conspiracy to commit bank, mail and wire fraud, and with individual counts of mail fraud, U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today. Certain of the defendants were also charged with wire fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy to launder money. The indictment was returned Jan. 13 by a federal grand jury in Fresno and unsealed today

SAN MATEO, CA - January 24, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congresswoman Jackie (D-San Francisco/San Mateo) and other members of Congress sent a letter (attached) today to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Acting Comptroller of the Currency John Walsh urging them to hold JPMorgan Chase accountable for overcharging thousands of military families on their mortgages and even wrongfully foreclosing on 14 families

LOS ANGELES, CA - January 24, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- California home sales rose in December, posting their highest level since May, according to data from the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.). The statewide median price increased from November, but was down from a year ago

SACRAMENTO, CA - January 24, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- California homebuilders put up the second-lowest number of homes for a single year in 2010, posting a modest improvement over the record-low that was set in 2009, the California Building Industry Association announced today

Torrance, CA - January 24, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Adrian Tabatabaie joined Keystone Pacific Property Management as a community association manager in its Irvine office

Washington, D.C. - January 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Representatives Mike Honda (D-Campbell) and Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) announced $9,989,955 in Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. These funds will go to local organizations providing a range of assistance to homeless persons and families, including transitional housing, permanent housing, and other supportive services. Local grantees are:

Washington, D.C. - January 20, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today lauded the announcement by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan that California organizations will receive more than $227 million in federal grants to provide housing and other assistance to Californians who are homeless.Senator Boxer said

EUGENE, OR - January 19, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, The Carrabba Group and IDX, Inc. unveil their unique IPhone-enabled website, hosted by Monique Carrabba. Now, thousands of California Real Estate Technology Services (CARETS) listings are seamlessly integrated onto the search page Carrabba supports. This revolutionary page has forever changed and simplified the online property search, by making it faster and more efficient. CARETS listings are not the only new feature IDX Broker has added to Carrabba's website, but it has monumentally changed the way home seekers experience the online property search.

Torrance, CA - January 18, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- A Lee & Associates team put together two different buyers to successfully close the sale of an 11-building, 86,667-square-foot office park in Southern California’s Inland Empire

FULLERTON, CA - January 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Morningside, the award-winning continuing care retirement community in Fullerton, Calif., has completed a $2 million expansion and renovation of its Lakeview Hall, lake and surrounding courtyard features. The renovation of Lakeview Hall, which serves as Morningside’s community center for major events, theatrical productions, musical entertainment and dances, doubled the hall’s original size of 4,500 to approximately 9,000 square feet

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- “Today, we heard that banks seized a record 1.05 million homes in 2010, topping the prior record from 2009. This is despite a massive slowdown in foreclosures at the end of the year due to several major banks initiating voluntary moratoria as homeowner lawsuits, news reports and Congressional hearings – like the one I chaired on November 18 – created a groundswell of public pressure demanding reform

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - January 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- International real estate investment and services firm Kennedy Wilson (NYSE: KW) today announced that the company and its partners have acquired Club Palisades, a 750-unit multifamily community in Federal Way, WA. The property is the second largest multifamily asset in the Seattle metro area and was purchased as an REO from a group of insurance companies.