WASHINGTON, D.C. - March 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Norfolk Department of Human Services is accepting applications for the city’s Real Estate Tax Relief/Deferral Program from Friday, March1 through June 1, 2013.

ARLINGTON, VA - February 27, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Looking for home renovation ideas? Have code enforcement or zoning questions? Ask the experts – from both Arlington County staff and industry – at the Saturday, March 9, 2013

ARLINGTON, VA - February 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Arlington County Board today approved the first residential building proposed since the Board adopted the

ARLINGTON, VA - February 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Arlington County Board today voted 4 to 0 to advertise a property tax rate of $1.021 per $100 of assessed value for Calendar Year (CY) 2013, including the stormwater sanitary district tax. This is five cents above the CY 2012 real estate tax rate

ARLINGTON, VA - February 21, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Citing the need to close a $22 million budget gap in Fiscal Year 2014, Arlington County Manager Barbara Donnellan today previewed for the County Board a proposed balanced $1.073 billion budget that calls for a mix of service cuts and a 3.2 cent real property tax rate increase

ALEXANDRIA, VA - February 20, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Four individuals—including two settlement agents in Annandale, Virginia—have pleaded guilty to conspiring to fraudulently taking over the titles of homes in Washington, D.C., without the real property owners’ knowledge, selling those homes, and keeping the profit.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - February 18, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) today sent a letter to the heads of the Consumer Financial Protection Board (CFPB) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) urging them to take action to improve consumer credit reporting. Recent CFPB and FTC reports found that 20 percent of consumers could identify at least one error in a credit report issued by one of the three major credit reporting agencies and that more than five percent of consumers found significant errors. These mistakes could force consumers to pay more for insurance and loans, and could impact their access to security clearance

EUGENE, OR - February 18, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. and Ed Butler have united to present Gainesville, Virginia home seekers with a unique online real estate solution. Butler has enabled IDX Broker software on his professional website and created an innovative property search resource that gives his clients access to thousands of Metropolitan Regional Information System (MRIS) listings. IDX Broker now extracts raw listing data from FortMyers MLS and seamlessly displays it onto the search page Butler hosts, simplifying the online real estate search process for agents, brokers and home seekers alike.

EUGENE, OR - February 13, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Basye, Virginia home seekers can now quickly and easily find their dream home online, thanks to the partnership between IDX, Inc. and real estate broker Bob Scrivener. The IDX solution now employed by Scrivener syncs his search page and property listings to thousands of homes listed on the Metropolitan Regional Information System (MRIS) database. Never before has it been so easy for Basye home seekers to search for a property online

WASHINGTON, D.C. - February 11, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The public is invited to attend a community meeting to discuss the new park property at 5325 Polk Ave. The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, February 19 at 7 p.m. and will be held at the William Ramsay Recreation Center, 5650 Sanger Ave.