TALLAHASSEE, FL - January 24, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- On Thursday, Jan. 24, at 11:30 a.m., Attorney General Pam Bondi will host a press event with representatives of housing assistance and legal aid groups to discuss the $60 million of the national mortgage settlement with the nation’s five largest mortgage servicers that is now available to provide additional assistance to Floridians

EUGENE, OR - January 23, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. and Luis Pinto have joined forces to revolutionize the online Florida real estate search. As a member of the Mid Florida Regional MLS (MFRMLS), Pinto has long had access to thousands of detailed property listings. Now, the same level of accessibility once reserved only for real estate agents and brokers can be experienced by clients of Pinto conveniently on his website. IDX Broker software affords Pinto the unique ability to synchronize his thorough and comprehensive search page directly to the MFRMLS database of listings. Never before has finding an Orlando, Florida home been easier online, thanks to the IDX solution Pinto has customized and employed for his professional realty website

EUGENE, OR - January 21, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX Broker software is revolutionizing the online real estate search one website at a time. IDX, Inc. is pleased to announce Surfside, Florida Realtor Daniel Degrave has become the latest agent to adopt a custom IDX solution for his website. As a member of the Southeast Florida MLS (SEFL), Degrave has long had access to the detailed listings present on the SEFL database. Now, his clients can experience the same levels of accessibility by utilizing the IDX synced features of his website that seamlessly integrated listing data on the website Degrave supports. Never again will the website of Degrave feature anything less than a thorough and comprehensive online real estate search.

TALLAHASSEE, FL - January 18, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Pam Bondi announced today that $60 million of the national mortgage settlement with the nation’s five largest mortgage servicers will now be available to provide additional assistance to Floridians. Attorney General Bondi’s proposal to help Floridians, which was approved by the Legislative Budget Commission today, includes the following:

EUGENE, OR - January 18, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Internet Data Exchanged (IDX) technologies are now available for real estate professionals to use on their websites. IDX, Inc. and Diana Caicedo have teamed up to bring her Florida real estate search page a unique and comprehensive database of property listings. IDX Broker software gives Caicedo the ability to deliver her clients and other area home seekers with a thorough and complete online real estate resourc

EUGENE, ORE - January 18, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Ada Rinaudo and IDX, Inc. have joined forces to bring new levels of ease and accessibility to the Miami, Florida home search, by enabling an IDX solution that has revolutionized the website of Rinaudo. As a real estate broker, Rinaudo has long had access to thousands of detailed property listings through the Southeast Florida MLS (SEFL)

TALLAHASSEE, FL - January 16, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office, working with Rust Consulting, Inc., has begun outbound calls to reach Florida borrowers who may be eligible for cash payments under the national mortgage settlement. Live operators will call those who lost their homes to foreclosure between Jan. 1, 2008 and Dec. 31, 2011 and had their mortgages serviced by Ally/GMAC, Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.

Miami, FL - January 15, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Butters Construction & Development is starting the new year with another announcement for the largest new industrial development in Miami-Dade County. Butters has partnered with L&B Realty Advisors to develop a 918,000-square-foot, Class A bulk distribution industrial park on a 44.5-acre site at NW 87th Avenue and NW 80th Street in Medley, Florida. Butters retained CBRE to procure a well-capitalized and institutional equity partner to acquire the site and develop the park. CBRE identified L&B Realty Advisors, and their client, the State of Florida, as the equity partner for the deal.<

Bal Harbour (Miami Beach), FL - January 14, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The SunTrust bank building located at 9600 Collins Avenue in Miami Beach’s Bal Harbour village was acquired for $13.5 million by an affiliate of the owner of Bal Harbour Shops. The seller, a wholly owned subsidiary of Inland American Real Estate Trust, Inc., hired CBRE to market the asset for sale.

LAKELAND, FL - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross (FL-15) will introduce the Homeowners’ Insurance Protection Act next week. This bill will create a federal catastrophe reinsurance program to back up federal reinsurance programs like that of the state of Florida.

TALLAHASSEE, FL - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Pam Bondi reminds eligible Florida borrowers that the January 18, 2013, deadline to file a claim for payment under the national settlement is fast approaching. To date, approximately half of the people to whom notices have been sent have not yet filed claims. Eligible borrowers include those who lost their homes to foreclosure between Jan. 1, 2008 and Dec. 31, 2011 and had mortgages serviced by Ally/GMAC, Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo

TALLAHASSEE, FL - January 09, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater today announced 61,271 new unclaimed property accounts, worth more than $25 million, are being received as part of a settlement with AIG related to unclaimed life insurance benefits. This represents only the first of what is expected to be additional remittances to be made by the insurer

Washington, D.C. - January 02, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) released the following statement in response to the passage of H.R. 4212, Drywall Safety Act of 2012.

TALLAHASSEE, FL - January 02, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Pam Bondi issued the following statement on Congress’ one-year tax relief extension for consumers who have mortgage debt canceled or forgiven due to financial hardship or a decline in housing values.

Washington, DC - January 02, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- This evening, Congress passed bipartisan legislation introduced by Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL) and Rep. Scott Rigell (R-VA) to address the plight of homeowners suffering from contaminated drywall from China in their homes. The Drywall Safety Act, now headed to President Obama’s desk for signature, is the first piece of legislation to pass Congress since reports of the destructive, sulfur-ridden material began to surface in Florida in 2009.

Washington, DC - December 17, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Alcee L. Hastings (D-Miramar) sent the following letter to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Deputy Director for Management Jeffrey Zients, urging him to maintain funding for homelessness programs as he considers discretionary spending cuts for the remainder of the Fiscal Year, and plans for the President's budget for Fiscal Year 2014. Hastings who is Co-Chair and Co-Founder of the Congressional Homelessness Caucus was joined by 31 of his colleagues in sending the letter. (Please find below and attached a copy of the letter)

Tampa, FL - December 13, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor announced today the award of a $30 million grant for the revitalization of northern downtown Tampa and the Encore redevelopment. Tampa is one of only four communities nationwide to receive a grant today from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Choice Neighborhood initiative.

TALLAHASSEE, FL - December 12, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater released the following statement regarding his public comments to the Federal Housing Finance Authority regarding the proposed tax on Floridians. The FHFA proposal would increase Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s Guarantee Fee (“g-fee”) which could raise the total lifetime cost of mortgages by potentially thousands of dollars for aspiring homebuyers

December 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Barrington Coombs, 58, of Weston, Fla., was sentenced today to serve a year and a day in prison for his role in a foreclosure rescue scheme that victimized desperate homeowners on the brink of losing their homes, the Justice Department announced. Coombs was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra in the Southern District of Florida

TALLAHASSEE, FL - November 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Pam Bondi reminds Florida borrowers who lost their homes to foreclosure between Jan. 1, 2008 and Dec. 31, 2011 and who may be eligible for payment under the $25 billion national mortgage foreclosure settlement to file claims by Jan. 18, 2013.