EUGENE, OR - September 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The iPhone enabled IDX Broker software is now also available on the website of Felix Portman with Onyx Management Group of Feasterville, Pennsylvania, thanks to his collaboration with IDX, Inc. Now simpler than ever before, IDX Broker extracts raw listing data from the Trend MLS (Trend) and displays it seamlessly on the website Portman hosts. The once complicated online property search is now simpler than ever, when potential buyers utilize the incredible IDX enabled website Portman manages.

EUGENE, OR - September 29, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. has enabled IDX Broker software on the real estate website of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania agent Cindy Stys. Home seekers can now experience an online real estate solution that integrates thousands of Lehigh Valley MLS (LVMLS) listings directly on the search page Stys employs. Never before has it been easier or faster to scan the LVMLS listings and match potential buyers with properties based on their own personalized criteria.

WASHINGTON, DC - September 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and provide support to homeowners and low-income renters forced from their homes following Tropical Storm Lee.

Philadelphia, PA - September 13, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Negotiations for a new union contract covering more than 2,600 property service workers in Philadelphia began on Friday between 32BJ and representatives of the real estate industry. 32BJ presented its contract proposals to leaders of Building Owners Labor Relations, Inc. (BOLR), an organization representing Philadelphia’s major commercial office building owners, managers, and cleaning companies such as ABM Industries, Inc., The Arthur Jackson Company, and Shellville Facility Services

HARRISBURG, PA - September 5, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency is encouraging homeowners in danger of foreclosure to contact an approved counseling agency and submit their applications for the Emergency Homeowners’ Loan Program on or before Friday, Sept. 16 to allow adequate time for processing.

Conshohocken, PA - September 1, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Metro Commercial announced today that it has brokered a 52,450-square-foot lease for the Oklahoma based Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. at Kohl’s Plaza in Dickson City (Lackawanna County), PA. Dickson City is approximately 8 miles northeast of Scranton, PA.

EUGENE, OR - August 25, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. and Jon Christopher have brought a new IDX solution to the Southeast Pennsylvania area real estate market. IDX Broker software now syncs directly to the website of Christopher, extracting raw listing data from the Trend MLS and displaying it seamlessly on the IDX-enabled search page Christopher hosts. Now, Pennsylvania home seekers can experience and dynamic, time-saving, online real estate search from the convenience of the website of Christopher, thanks to IDX Broker software.

ELIZABETHTOWN, PA - August 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Commercial real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. has brokered a long-term, 111,000-square-foot industrial lease to MWI Veterinary Supply, Inc. at 1499 Zeager Road in Elizabethtown. The company will relocate its regional distribution operation to the 280,000-square-foot warehouse facility from Harrisburg, Pa

Harrisburg, PA - August 16, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania is a statewide membership organization working to increase the availability of homes within reach of all Pennsylvanians, especially those with low incomes. Our members include nonprofit and for profit developers, social service and homeless providers, housing counselors, local government officials, lawyers, bankers, real estate professionals, and people in need of affordable homes. We are all working to balance the housing market so that supply more closely matches the demand for affordable homes.

Mt. Laurel, NJ - August 15, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Metro Commercial Real Estate, Inc. is pleased to announce that Lars Kerstein has joined the company, where he will expand the firm’s presence in Center City Philadelphia.

WASHINGTON, DC - August 2, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced today that it has charged the owner and manager of Breckenridge Plaza Apartments in Phoenixville, PA, with violating the Fair Housing Act by discriminating against families with children. Breckenridge Plaza, Inc., and Morris Zelikovsky were charged with making discriminatory statements, including in advertisements on craigslist.org, indicating a preference against families with children, offering different rental terms and conditions to families with children, and discouraging families with children from applying for housing.

BRISTOL, PA - August 1, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- National Honey Almond, Inc., a wholesale distributor of fine cigars and a long-term client of commercial real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield, Inc., has acquired a new headquarters property at 247 Rittenhouse Circle in Bristol. Gerry Blinebury, Brian Hilger and Leah Balerno, industrial specialists in Cushman & Wakefield’s Philadelphia office, orchestrated the $1.7 million transaction

HARRISBURG, PA - July 15, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The board of the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency yesterday conditionally approved $11.2 million in funding and approximately $30 million in tax credits for the construction of affordable multifamily housing developments located throughout Pennsylvania.

PHILADELPHIA, PA - July 15, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Private equity real estate group Tryko Partners, LLC of Brick, N.J., has acquired a West Philadelphia property recognized as the nation’s first retirement community. The $8 million purchase includes age-restricted rental housing at Kearsley Apartments and Kearsley Square, and skilled nursing services at Kearsley Long Term Care. The Kearsley campus had been part of the NewCourtland Network since 2004.

WASHINGTON, DC - July 15, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and provide support to homeowners and low-income renters forced from their homes following severe storms and flooding in April.

Beacon Commercial Real Estate - July 6, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Taylor Young of Beacon Commercial Real Estate, LLC represented the landlord, BioMed Realty Trust, Inc., in leasing 11,185 square feet of office space to Ferrandino & Son, Inc. at 2600 Eisenhower Avenue, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

HARRISBURG, PA - June 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Wondering where your property tax or rent rebate payment is? State Treasurer Rob McCord provided an answer today when he said Treasury will issue approximately half a million payments totaling $240 million to Pennsylvanians on July 1.

PHILADELPHIA, PA - June 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Edward G. And Jacqueline McCusker, both 47, of New Hope, PA, were convicted today in connection with a $14.6 million mortgage fraud scheme that resulted in at least 35 fraudulent mortgage loans, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The couple was convicted of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, six counts of wire fraud and three counts of mail fraud. Edward McCusker was also convicted of an additional count of mail fraud. The McCuskers operated Axxium Mortgage, Inc., along with co-defendant John Bariana who pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing. Co-defendants Jeffrey A. Bennett and Stephen G. Doherty, owners of the Doylestown law firm Bennett & Doherty, P.C., also pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing

ERIE, PA - June 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Pennsylvania Treasurer Rob McCord – seeking to reunite more than $650,000 in unclaimed property with the state’s K-12 schools – visited the Erie City School District today to return over $20,000 to administrators there, and he said the returned money should be used to help preserve educational opportunities in challenging economic times.

PHILADELPHIA, PA - June 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Gennaro Rauso, 47, of Trenton, NJ, was sentenced today to 160 months in prison for several mortgage fraud related charges, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Rauso owned and operated a real estate management company—D&B Property Investors—that purported to help financially distressed homeowners with their foreclosure problems