Tennessee RealEstateRama

WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 2, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- As part of Community Development Week, City staff are holding an open house from 2-3 p.m. for a formerly blighted home in the Holston Hills neighborhood located at 4508 Plymouth Drive.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - March 29, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- During the kickoff for Community Development Week at the Volunteer Ministry Center, the University of Tennessee College of Social Work / Knoxville Homeless Management Information System (KnoxHMIS) released their annual study regarding homelessness in Knoxville.

NASHVILLE - March 14, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- One is all a renter needs, but the TNHousingSearch has 100,000 in the list. Tennessee Housing Development Agency (THDA) built a website, www.TNHousingSearch.org, and has been inviting property owners to post Tennessee rental properties of all sizes, shapes, locations and costs on the site for each searching by households wanting to rent a home.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - March 12, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Memphis Area Association of REALTORS® and Shelby County Trustee David Lenoir have partnered to present the Residential Real Estate Summit on Tuesday, April 2, at the Michael D. Rose Theatre on the campus of the University of Memphis.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - March 6, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., a member of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, made the following statement today in response to remarks made by Federal Housing Finance Agency Acting Director Ed DeMarco following the release of the FHFA’s 2013 Conservatorship Scorecard for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac which details this year’s priorities for the government-sponsored enterprises.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - March 4, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- In response to reports of increased income at mortgage finance agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs committee, today said these profits must be used to repay taxpayers and reform our housing finance system after years of government dominance.

WASHINGTON, DC - February 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Responding to a housing reform report from the Bipartisan Policy Center, U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R- Tenn., a member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, credited the proposal for focusing on putting “substantial private capital in front of the government” and “resolving the legal limbo” of government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which own or guarantee roughly half all mortgages in the U.S. at a total value of more than $5 trillion. Fannie and Freddie were taken into government conservatorship in 2008 and have already cost taxpayers $137 billion.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - February 14, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The following is Mayor Madeline Rogero's statement on legislation proposed by State Sen. Stacey Campfield requiring the sale of state property at the former Lakeshore Mental Health Institute. (The bill can be read at http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/108/Bill/SB1243.pdf.)

MEMPHIS, TN - February 11, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Memphis-area home sales for January increased 46.1 percent from a year ago, with 1,259 total sales recorded in the Memphis Area Association of REALTORS® MAARdata property records database. Total sales rose 8.9 percent from December. Average sales price was up 7.3 percent at $123,696. Inventory declined 6.3 percent, with 6,070 units listed for sale. Sales volume for the month year-over-year increased 56.6 percent to $155.7 million

WASHINGTON, D.C. - February 5, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- A public meeting on State Street Garage construction will be held on Thursday, Feb. 7 at 5 p.m. in the East Tennessee History Center located at 601 S. Gay St.