Yearly Archives: 2013

EUGENE, OR - June 7, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Arshan Borhan of Iconic Properties Inc has joined with IDX, Inc. to upgrade his professional real estate website with a customizable IDX solution. IDX Broker software integrates the Miami Beach, Florida property listings Borhan represents with thousands of Southeast Florida MLS (SEFL) listings, creating a thorough and comprehensive database of homes for potential buyers to search through. The IDX enabled website Borhan hosts has simplified the online search capabilities for all those involved in the real estate market, from agents and brokers to home seekers.

EUGENE, OR - June 6, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX Broker software has been integrated onto the website of Christopher Bluntzer, making him the latest real estate broker to adopt the innovative IDX, Inc. affiliated technology. Bluntzer now hosts thousands of detailed property listings on his website, thanks in part to his IDX solution, which extracts raw listing data directly from the Southeast Florida MLS (SEFL), of which Bluntzer is a member. IDX Broker synchronizes the SEFL database and the website of Bluntzer in an effort to make the online real estate search monumentally easier for home seekers around Miami, Florida. Buyers can experience an online property search like none other, thanks to Bluntzer and IDX Broker

TALLAHASSEE, FL - June 5, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Pam Bondi announced today that more than 72,000 eligible Floridians who lost their homes due to foreclosure between 2008 and 2011 and who submitted valid foreclosure claims through the national mortgage settlement will receive checks this month for approximately $1,480. The $1,480 payment amount is uniform for all eligible claimants throughout the country. To be eligible, borrowers must have lost their homes to foreclosure between Jan. 1, 2008 and Dec. 31, 2011, suffered certain foreclosure abuses, and had mortgages serviced by Ally/GMAC, Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase or Wells Fargo. This direct relief provided to eligible claimants is one of the facets of the $26 billion settlement entered last year between 49 state attorneys general, the federal government and the nation’s five largest mortgage servicers

TALLAHASSEE, FL - June 5, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Pam Bondi today joined Governor Rick Scott for the signing of Senate Bill 1852, which appropriates the remaining $200 million of Florida’s portion of the national mortgage settlement for housing-related purposes. The $200 million is part of the total estimated $8.4 billion in relief that Attorney General Bondi obtained for Floridians. The funds will be used in accordance with the settlement agreement, which includes: legal assistance, housing-related counseling, housing rehabilitation, housing assistance for the homeless, and housing assistance provided to the elderly and people with disabilities

TALLAHASSEE, FL - June 4, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Pam Bondi will join Governor Rick Scott for the signing of Senate Bill 1852, which appropriates the remaining $200 million of Florida’s portion of the national mortgage settlement for housing-related purposes.

Hollywood, FL - June 4, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Stiles, a Florida-based full-service commercial real estate firm, today started construction on West Lake Commons, an approximate $35 million Publix grocery store-anchored retail shopping center in Hollywood, Fla.

Miami, FL - June 3, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Paul Weimer, Vice President with CBRE Hotels, and Robert Given, Vice Chairman with CBRE’s Institutional Group, Multi-Housing, are on this year’s program for the Urban Land Institute’s Florida Summit. The two-day summit takes place at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Naples, Florida on June 6 and 7, 2013.

MIAMI, FL - May 30, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson (FL-24) announced that the Miami-Dade County Department of Public Housing and Community Development and the Broward County Housing Authority will receive over $1.2 million in federal funding to provide housing and case management to 145 homeless veterans in South Florida.

EUGENE, OR - May 30, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. is pleased to announce Anthony Greadington has become the latest real estate professional to join the growing network of agents and brokers who have employed the dynamic IDX Broker software. Greadington now makes the Lavenderhill, Florida property search monumentally simpler for area home seekers. As a member of the Fort Lauderdale MLS (RAGFL), Greadington has long had access to thousands of detailed property listings. Now, Greadington gives his clients and other potential buyers unprecedented accessibility to the RAGFL database of homes. Never before have buyers been able to experience such innovative real estate search tools from the convenience of the website of Greadington, or the IDX Broker application for iPhone and iPad.

EUGENE, OR - May 29, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Emerald Coast MLS (ECARMLS) listings are now seamlessly integrated onto the website of agent Darren Bryant, thanks to IDX, Inc. and the dynamic IDX Broker software. A customized IDX solution makes it so easy for Mary Esther, Florida home seekers to search for properties online. With the website Bryant now hosts, potential buyers can instantly search thousands of listings without ever leaving the convenience of the website Bryant supports. Finding a Mary Esther area home has never been so easy, thanks to the IDX enabled website of Bryant and the detailed listings he presents to home seekers

WASHINGTON, DC - May 23, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance announced its newest addition today: Rep. Dennis Ross (FL-15). Ross replaces outgoing member Rep. Jim Renacci, who moved to the Committee on Ways and Means.

TALLAHASSEE, FL - May 21, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that Floridians have received nearly $9 billion in relief under the national mortgage settlement, as reported by the five largest mortgage servicing banks that are parties to the settlement. According to the latest Settlement Monitor’s report released today, more than 111,000 Floridians have received more than $8.6 billion in relief, with an additional $315 million in principal reduction, in the form of loan modifications, underway.

TALLAHASSEE - May 21, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater’s Department of Financial Services is hosting a series of free disaster preparedness webinars for small business owners as a part of Small Business Week, which began on May 19, and ahead of the start of the 2013 Hurricane Season. The webinars are part of CFO Atwater’s “Protect Your Home Base” initiative and are aimed at helping small businesses plan and prepare for a natural disaster

WASHINGTON, D.C. - May 21, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Broward County 2013 Point-in-Time Count, conducted in a 24-hour time period on January 24-25, identified that 2,810 individuals and families were homeless according to the federal definition of homelessness: they were living in places not meant for human habitation, emergency shelters or transitional housing programs. The count is required by U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Florida's Office on Homelessness

Jacksonville, FL - May 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- CBRE today announced that William (Tripp) Gulliford will join the firm as Managing Director of its Jacksonville office. He assumes his new role on June 3rd, following the retirement of Jim Citrano, who managed this office for more than 15 years.

Fort Lauderdale, FL - May 14, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- May 14, 2013 – CBRE arranged the sale of a two-acre waterfront development site on Biscayne Bay. The property known as Midtown Bay, at 475 NE 32nd Street and 3117 NE 7th Avenue in Miami, FL, was acquired by AXA Strategic Management for an undisclosed amount that included initial cash consideration of $20 million

Ft. Lauderdale, FL - May 14, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- CBRE is pleased to announce that Abu Mansoor has joined CBRE as Senior Research Analyst based in our Ft. Lauderdale office. In this role, Mansoor will be leading our research team’s market analysis efforts in South Florida

EUGENE, OR - May 14, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee Graham and IDX, Inc. have teamed up to revolutionize the online real estate search for Yulee, Florida area home seekers. By adopting the innovative IDX Broker software for his website, Graham has created a dynamic and comprehensive search page, which extracts raw listing data directly from the Amelia Island Nassau County MLS (AINCMLS). These listings are seamlessly integrated and made available for potential buyers to search through at their convenience. Graham, and his IDX solution, has forever changed the way Florida buyers scan the AINCMLS database for homes

TALLAHASSEE - May 13, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater today asked Floridians to check for unclaimed property prior to his Bureau of Unclaimed Property’s Statewide Auction, an annual sale of unclaimed safe deposit box contents turned over to the state. The auction, which is open to the public, will be held June 8, in Tampa, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel

Miami, FL - May 13, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Stiles Realty Director Michael Taylor today announced that Banco do Brasil America’s, a State Chartered Florida Bank owned by Banco do Brasil S.A., Latin America’s largest bank, has opened its first branch in Miami at 800 Brickell. 800 Brickell is a 208,325-square-foot premier office building in downtown Miami. The bank signed a new ten-year 6,953-square-foot lease for premium ground floor office space fronting Brickell Ave in the city’s financial district, the second largest in the United States