Yearly Archives: 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 24, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Landmark Hotel Group LLC of Virginia Beach, a leader in hospitality development and management, recently acquired the Pinewood Plaza office building on Commerce Drive as part of a multi-million dollar mixed-use project in Hampton’s Coliseum Central district.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 23, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine joined Senator Ron Wyden and nine other Senators in urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to examine the protections for consumers facing tax liens and foreclosure in light of consumer abuses revealed in recent media reports

ARLINGTON, VA - September 18, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Arlington County residents are invited to participate in a public forum on September 26 to review a draft set of guiding principles for Affordable Housing Goals and Targets put together by a community Working Group appointed by the County Manager, and share their ideas on these principles.

RICHMOND - September 5, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Virginia first-ever Secretary of Veteran's Affairs and Homeland Security, Terrie Suit, has been selected as the next Chief Executive Officer of the Virginia Association of REALTORS ® (VAR). Suit, a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, will officially step down from her current position in the McDonnell Administration on September 22nd. Governor Bob McDonnell will appoint Deputy Secretary Jim Hopper to lead the Secretariat following her departure.

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) released the following statement today on President Obama’s remarks on housing finance reform during a speech in Phoenix, AZ. On June 25th, Sen. Warner introduced bipartisan legislation to strengthen the housing finance system by replacing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with a with a streamlined, privately-capitalized system that preserves market liquidity and protects taxpayers from bailouts during any future economic downturns

EUGENE, OR - August 2, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. and Long and Foster Real Estate have joined forces to deliver realtor Marianne Prendgergast with the latest Internet Data Exchange (IDX) technology. The IDX Broker software now enabled on the website of Prendgergast extracts raw listings data from Metropolitan Regional Info Systems (MRIS) and displays it directly on her website, giving her clients the most comprehensive listings database to search through. Now, Prendgergast and her clients can sit back and relax as they scan thousands of Virginia properties from the comfort of home and the convenience of the website on their iPhone or personal computer.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 31, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Granting Freedom is a grant program for home modifications for disabled veterans or disabled servicemen or women who sustained a line of duty injury resulting in a service connected disability. The Virginia Housing Development Authority (VHDA) is partnering with the Virginia Department of Veterans Services to make this program available

EUGENE, OR - July 30, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Virginia realtor Angela Logomasini of the Samson Properties has adopted the IDX, Inc. IDX Broker software on her real estate website to bring her clients thousands more listings, and in turn to bring her more potential buyers. Her partnership with the Metropolitan Regional Info System (MRIS) gives her the ability to display all of their listings directly on her website. Now more than ever, her clients can have the most detailed and thorough online home search experience around

Reston, VA - July 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Andrew Fallon and Jon Florin, Assistant Vice Presidents at Calkain Companies, a national real estate investment brokerage firm, recently arranged the purchase of a Chase Bank (NYSE: JPM) corporate ground lease in Streetsboro, Ohio. The private investor, a frequent Calkain client, was drawn to the low price point and stable investment that the Chase Bank ground lease offered. The property closed within the last 30 days for a price of $1,260,000.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 19, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Robert Hurt (R-Virginia) released the below statement following the Financial Services Committee hearing examining the Protecting American Taxpayers And Homeowners Act, a legislative proposal to create a sustainable housing system