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.

Torrance, CA - January 13, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee & Associates, one of the largest national commercial real estate providers with regional expertise, has closed a $6.25 million sales transaction for a 70,377-square-foot mixed-use business park and 4.59 acres of adjacent vacant land located at 1020 to 1050 Nevada Street in Redlands, Calif.

Stockton, CA - January 11, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- M & C Association Management Services Inc., an Associa company, is proud to announce that Assistant Community Manager Mica Acosta-Polina recently earned her Certified Manager of Community Associations (CMCA) designation from the National Board of Certification for Community Association Managers (NBC-CAM)

Torrance, CA - January 11, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jim Slaught, an investment specialist with more than 20 years experience acquiring, developing, brokering, leasing and managing shopping centers and other commercial real estate assets throughout California, has joined Lee & Associates Central Coast as principal.

EUGENE, OR - January 7, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The iPhone enabled IDX Broker software is now also available on the website of Sylvia Sotomayor, thanks to her collaboration with IDX, Inc. Now simpler than ever before, IDX Broker extracts raw listing data from the East Bay Regional Data/MAX MLS (MAX/EBRD) and displays it seamlessly on the website Sotomayor hosts. The once complicated online property search is now simpler than ever, when potential buyers utilize the incredible IDX enabled website Sotomayor manages

Torrance, CA - January 6, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lani Kaneshiro, regional manager of Keystone Pacific Property Management’s Irvine office, has been elected to the 2011 Board of Directors of the Community Association Institute (CAI). Her three-year term began on Jan. 1, 2011

Los Angeles, CA - January 4, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Colliers International, the second largest real estate services organization globally, has negotiated a 10-year lease for a 15,444-square-foot office space located at 221 S. Figueroa St. in Downtown Los Angeles for The Associated Press. The transaction is valued at $5.5 million.

IRVINE, CA - January 4, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Western States Technologies Inc. (www.westernstatestech.com) has signed a five-year lease valued at more than $1.5 million with Graphtec America Inc. for 44,000 square feet of space at 17462 Armstrong Ave. in Irvine, Calif., near John Wayne Airport. Graphtec America (www.graphtecamerica.com) will occupy 100 percent of the space.