Yearly Archives: 2013

Washington, D.C. - April 29, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today U.S. Representative Stephen Fincher (R-Frog Jump) introduced the Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act – a bipartisan bill to protect the availability of financing for affordable manufactured housing, a critical resource for low and moderate-income families across the United States. Specifically, the bill would amend the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) to change the criteria by which home loans are classified “high-cost” while keeping in place strong consumer protections.

EUGENE, OR - April 22, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. is pleased to announce Scott Hines of The DeSelms Team. has chosen to employ the powerful and innovative IDX Broker software on his professional website. As a member of the RealTracs MLS (RTMLS), Hines, like many other real estate agents and brokers, can search through thousands of Franklin, Tennessee listings. Now, clients of Hines can experience the same accessibility and ease when scanning RTMLS properties, all on the convenient real estate website and search page Hines hosts

EUGENE, OR - April 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jackson, Tennessee real estate agent Matt Shelton has become the latest professional to integrate the dynamic IDX Broker software onto his professional website, creating a helpful and simple search page for Jackson home seekers. Central West Tennessee (CWTAR) listings are seamlessly linked to the search page Shelton employs, giving him the ability to display thousands of listings on his convenient and easy-to-use Shelton website

MEMPHIS, TN - April 8, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Memphis-area home sales for March dropped 9.8 percent from a year ago, with 1,164 total sales recorded in the Memphis Area Association of REALTORS® MAARdata property records database. Total sales increased 24.6 percent from February. Average sales price year-over-year rose 8.8 percent at $133,240. Inventory was up 2.9 percent, with 6,327 units listed for sale. Sales volume YTD increased 18.1 percent to $422.8 million

NASHVILLE, TN - April 3, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- In response to reports of increased income at mortgage finance agency Fannie Mae, U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., a member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, reiterated his call that these profits not become an excuse for inaction and expressed the need for long-term reform of our housing finance system.

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.