Yearly Archives: 2013

Washington, DC - June 6, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), joined U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Lois Capps (D-Calif.), in sending a letter to eight executive agencies urging them to protect surviving spouses from foreclosure. This segment of the homeowner population – often women in their later years – faces unique circumstances that unfairly deprive them of opportunities to avoid losing their home.

LOS ANGELES, CA - June 4, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The California Department of Insurance (CDI) is currently tracking evacuations due to wildfires in the state, including the Powerhouse fire near Palmdale. Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones is reminding wildfire evacuees that they may be eligible for reimbursement for additional living expenses due to mandatory evacuations.

EUGENE, OR - June 4, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Scott Leonard has become the latest announced real estate agent to adopt the IDX,...

Torrance, CA - June 4, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Andrew M. Ouvrier has joined the national real estate law firm Pircher, Nichols & Meeks (Pircher) as an associate in its Los Angeles office. Ouvrier, who brings over 11 years of experience in real estate transactions, specifically in connection with office and retail leasing, will join the firm’s real estate practice

LOS ANGELES, CA - June 3, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Los Angeles County Chief Deputy Assessor Santos H. Kreimann today announced the completion of the decline-in-value review of properties in Los Angeles County.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 3, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Representative Julia Brownley (D-Westlake Village) announced the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded a $34,500 grant to the Housing Authority of the City of San Buenaventura for their participation in HUD’s ROSS Family Sufficiency Program. Funds will allow the Housing Authority to hire a program coordinator to connect local residents with training opportunities, job placement organizations and local employers

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 3, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- California receives more grant funds from U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) than any other state in the nation to help address the issue of veteran homelessness. The State got nearly $16 million, about 25 percent of all the grant money going to local public housing agencies across the country. Florida was the second highest with about $6 million, followed by Texas with about $5 million

SACRAMENTO, CA - June 3, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-06) today announced that Sacramento County will receive $368,568 from the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) Program. This funding will make 50 housing vouchers available to local homeless veterans through the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency (SHRA)

IRVINE, CA - June 3, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Award-winning national architecture and planning firm KTGY Group, Inc. and private developer, Hanover Pacific, LLC, announce the ground breaking of a new, mixed-use, 173,000-square-foot graduate student housing community, adjacent to the campus of Western University of Health Sciences (WesternU), a private, non-profit graduate school for health professions. The four-story mixed-use development located in downtown Pomona, Calif., will provide 306 beds along with approximately 10,000 square feet to be used by WesternU as faculty offices. The 3.6-acre project is a complex public/private partnership with the City of Pomona, the Vehicle Parking District, and Hanover Pacific, along with the support of WesternU. The project is slated to be completed by fall of 2014

IRVINE, CA - June 3, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Award-winning KTGY Group, Inc., Architecture + Planning, is pleased to announce that KTGY Principal Manny Gonzalez, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP has been invited to be a speaker at the PCBC 2013 show, Homebuilding’s Premier Tradeshow and Conference, held June 5-6, 2013, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif. Gonzalez is a frequent guest speaker and panelist at various industry events and webinars and currently serves as PCBC's Co-Chair of the Multifamily Trends Forum.

EUGENE, OR - May 31, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) --X, Inc. and Stephanie Payab have joined forces to deliver Encino, California home seekers with a thorough and dynamic online real estate resource. As a member of the California Regional MLS (CRMLS), Payab has long had access to thousands of area property listings. Her IDX solution now affords potential buyers the same level of access to CRMLS listings that was once only reserved for agents and brokers, simplifying the online home search for all parties. IDX Broker software has upgraded the search capabilities of the website of Payab, making the online real estate search quick, efficient and effective

FRESNO, CA - May 30, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rep. Jim Costa announced today that the Fresno Housing Authority and the Fresno Veterans Affairs Medical Center have been awarded $378,840 to provide case management and rental assistance to 70 homeless veterans. The Housing and Urban Development-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) program is jointly operated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Since the HUD-VASH program began in 2009, there has been a 17 percent drop in chronic homelessness amongst veterans nationwide.

EUGENE, OR - May 30, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- East Bay Regional Data MLS (EBRD) listings are now more accessible than ever before, thanks to IDX, Inc. and Quinn Stone. The dynamic duo of real estate, has supplied Alameda, California home seekers with the IDX enabled website of Stone. EBRD listing data is extracted via IDX Broker software and seamlessly displayed on the search page Stone represents. Never again will potential buyers experience a fruitless or complicated online property search, thanks to the ease and efficiency Stone provides with his IDX solution. His custom real estate search page with IDX Broker has forever changed the way California buyers search for homes online

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - May 29, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Kennedy-Wilson, Inc. (“Kennedy Wilson”), a wholly owned subsidiary of international real estate investment and services firm, Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KW), today announced that the company has commenced a registered exchange offer for the $100 million aggregate principal amount of outstanding 8.750% Senior Notes due 2019 (the “Private Notes”) issued on December 6, 2012 in a private placement that was exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).

EUGENE, OR - May 29, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. is pleased to announce Santa Barbara, California real estate agent Tim Woehrman is the latest realty professional to adopt an IDX solution for his website. With the unique technology that IDX Broker supplies to agents and brokers, they can integrate their website with the Multiple Listings Service (MLS) boards they belong to. As a member of the Santa Barbara MLS (SBAOR), Woehrman has access to thousands of detailed property listings, and now, so do his clients. IDX Broker extracts raw listing data from the SBAOR database and seamlessly displays it on the search function Woehrman hosts. Finding a home in Santa Barbara, California has never been easier, thanks to the IDX solution Woehrman employs on his real estate search page

EUGENE, OR - May 29, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. welcomes Dennis Komick of Peninsula Sotheby’s International Realty to the growing network of real estate agents and brokers who have chosen to revolutionize the online property search for their clients and countless other area home seekers. As a Manhattan Beach, California Realtor, Komick has long had access to all of the detailed property listings the California Regional MLS (CRMLS) hosts. Now, clients of Komick can experience the same level of accessibility to thousands of CRMLS listings that was once reserved solely for agents and brokers, thanks to the IDX enabled page Komick hosts. His customizable IDX solution gives Komick the ability to seamlessly integrate CRMLS properties instantly, simplifying his management of the CRMLS listing database and making easier than ever for potential Manhattan Beach buyers to find their dream home online.

Torrance, CA - May 29, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee & Associates Valuation and Consulting Services continues to expand its national presence with the opening of its Indianapolis office. Anelena Ackerly joins the new office of Lee & Associate Valuation, the appraisal service line of national commercial real estate firm Lee & Associates.

LOS ANGELES, CA - May 28, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- This morning the Senate Appropriations Committee approved Senate Bill 30 (R. Calderon), which would extend existing provisions of state law protecting homeowners from having to pay income tax on a "short sale." SB 30 is sponsored by the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.).

IRVINE, CA - May 28, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Hanley Investment Group Real Estate Advisors, one of the most dominant retail investment groups in the western United States and a market leader in the sale of retail properties, announced today that Carlos J. Lopez and Kevin T. Fryman represented the seller and Edward B. Hanley represented the buyer in the sale of an El Super anchored shopping center in the Pomona, Calif. The purchase price was $14 million, which represented a 7.61% capitalization rate.

WASHINGTON, DC - May 24, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Representative Henry A. Waxman sent a letter to Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) Eric Shinseki urging him to create a pilot program at the Los Angeles VA Regional Office (VARO) to fast-track benefits claims for 50 chronically homeless and terminally ill veterans within a 30 to 45 day timeframe, instead of the 125 day timeframe proposed by the VA.