San Diego, CA - February 7, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- River Colony Association Selects MERIT for Property Management Services MERIT will provide property management services for the 300-unit mid-rise condominium community in the Mission Valley area of San Diego, CA

MISSION VIEJO, CA - February 7, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Hammerhouse LLC, an expanding national recruiting and strategic growth firm for the financial service industry with mortgage sales and leadership placement at its core, announced today the hiring of Grant Lupo as Strategic Growth Partner. Mr. Lupo, an experienced mortgage professional with years of experience in servicing, hiring and training mortgage production professionals, is being hired to help manage Hammerhouse’s client growth and expand the Company’s national mortgage recruiting market share. Mr. Lupo will report directly to Drew Waterhouse, Managing Director of Hammerhouse and be based in Mission Viejo,

East Bay, CA - February 7, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Green City Lofts Owners Association Selects MERIT for Property Management Services MERIT will provide property management services for the 64-unit mid-rise community in Emeryville, CA

Torrance, CA - February 4, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Keystone Pacific Property Management is excited to announce that it is now using the latest social media tools to communicate with its clients. Keystone Pacific is using several social networking sites, including LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to provide current company news and the latest news and trends affecting the community association industry.

LOS ANGELES, CA - February 3, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced a $6.5 million settlement of a predatory lending case against Angelo Mozilo and David Sambol, former officers of Countrywide Financial Corporation. Attorney General Harris announced the settlement money will be used to establish an innovative statewide California Foreclosure Crisis Relief Fund to combat the effects of California's high rates of foreclosure and mortgage delinquency

EUGENE, OR - February 2, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX Broker software now has a new home on the website of Carl Wuestehube, thanks to the IDX, Inc. premier technology. Wuestehube has once again proven his dedication to serving his clients and their real estate needs by adopting a customizable IDX solution for his professional website. California Real Estate Technology Services (CARETS) listings are seamlessly integrated onto his website, making the online real estate search simpler than ever before.

San Francisco, CA - February 1, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Zephyr Real Estate, San Francisco’s largest independent real estate firm, is pleased to announce the company’s top producing real estate agents of 2010.

ANAHEIM, CA - February 1, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Knightsbridge Realty Capital, Inc. of Newport Beach, Calif., has arranged financing of just under $3 million for the renovation of a retail center on North Anaheim Boulevard in Anaheim, Calif. The transaction includes a first trust deed loan supplemented with proceeds provided through the U.S. Treasury Department’s New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) program, and accomplishes the goals of President Obama’s Healthy Food Financing Initiative announced in February 2010

Torrance, CA - February 1, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Bryan Glenn of Charles Dunn Company’s West Los Angeles office has closed the sale of a 26-unit apartment complex at 9770 Beach St. in Bellflower. The value of the transaction is approximately $2.8 million.

Westlake Village, CA - January 31, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Colliers International, the second largest global real estate services organization, has completed the sale of an industrial building located at 3580 Willow Lane, Westlake Village, Calif. to Johnston Plumbing, a plumbing equipment company based in Ventura, Calif. The transaction is valued at $2.383 million.

Placentia, CA - January 31, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Colliers International, the second largest global real estate services organization, has completed the sale of a 29,681-square-foot three-story office building located at 774 Placentia Ave., Placentia, Calif. to Interface Rehab, Inc. The transaction is valued at $2,575 million

Los Angeles, CA - January 31, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Colliers International, the second largest global real estate services organization, has negotiated four industrial leases totaling 217,929 square feet. The total combined value of the leases is approximately $8.5 million. Colliers represented the tenant, Thibiant International, a Chatsworth-based cosmetics company in the transactions. The leases represent renewals for three of Thibiant’s current facilities and an expansion into a 62,400 square-foot warehouse.

EUGENE, OR - January 31, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- iPhone-enabled property searches are now possible on the website of agent Mike Kelly, thanks to IDX, Inc. and the amazing and innovative IDX Broker software. Kelly can now display thousands of California Real Estate Technology Services (CARETS) listings on his website, which is now synced with an application to make searching for homes on-the-go monumentally easier. The IDX solution Kelly now employs has forever revolutionized the online property search for home seekers and real estate professionals alike.

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.