HARRISBURG, PA - June 8, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Steel City will become Gotham City when filming for “The Dark Knight Rises” begins this summer in Pittsburgh. To welcome Batman to the Commonwealth, State Treasurer Rob McCord today highlighted Pennsylvanians in Treasury’s unclaimed property database with names straight out of Gotham.

Pittsburgh, PA - June 7, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLBank) of Pittsburgh today announced Williamson, WV-based Bank of Mingo as its newest member. The addition of Bank of Mingo complements the nearly 200 commercial bank members of FHLBank Pittsburgh and the nearly 5,500 commercial banks within the FHLBank System. At year-end 2010, Bank of Mingo had $116 million in assets.

PHILADELPHIA, PA - May 31, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Kirk H. Kirby, 40, of Capital Heights, Maryland, and Sholonda Y. Johnson, 39, of Philadelphia, were sentenced today to 60 months and 30 months in prison, respectively, in connection with a real estate investment scheme, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Kirby and Johnson pleaded guilty to three counts each of wire fraud in connection with a real estate investment scheme that caused millions of dollars in losses to lenders. Kirby owned and operated Invictus Financial Group ("IFG"), located in Havertown, PA. Johnson was a loan officer at various mortgage brokerage companies.

PITTSBURGH, PA - May 24, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- A resident of Richland Township, Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court to 27 months in prison and two years of supervised release on his conviction of wire fraud conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

Wilkes-Barre, PA - May 5, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- As part of its exclusive representation for Gap Inc., Metro Commercial announced today that it has brokered a new lease for a Banana Republic Factory Store in Wilkes-Barre, PA.

HARRISBURG, PA - May 4, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency today announced that registration is open for its 2011 Housing Services Conference June 21-23 in State College at The Penn Stater Conference Center.

HARRISBURG, PA - April 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency today announced the keynote speakers for its 2011 Commonwealth Housing Forum set for May 5 and 6 in Harrisburg.

PITTSBURGH, PA - April 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- A resident of New Kensington, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, filing a false tax return, and failing to file income tax returns, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

Harrisburg, PA - April 5, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Governor Tom Corbett today announced that Pennsylvania has been approved by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to receive $105 million to aid homeowners facing foreclosure through the Emergency Homeowners’ Loan Program.

NEW YORK, NY - April 4, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York today released Help for Unemployed Borrowers: Lessons from the Pennsylvania Homeowners’ Emergency Mortgage Assistance Program, the latest article in its Current Issues in Economics and Finance series from the Research and Statistics Group.

BLUE BELL, PA - April 4, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- With minimum bids starting at just $75,000, 36 two- and three-bedroom condominiums in Blue Bell, Pa., that had previously been on the market for as much as $301,400 are set to go on the auction block in April.

March 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- PETER J. SMITH, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, and GEORGE C. VENIZELOS, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced today a former York County woman has been charged with defrauding 14 mortgage lenders, 35 homeowners and five individual investors in Cumberland, Dauphin, York, and Adams Counties out of approximately $2,700,000 between 2006 and 2008.

PHILADELPHIA, PA/TEANECK, N.J. - March 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- For both energy conservation and economic reasons, Thomas Jefferson University and Hospital, one of the largest healthcare groups in the Philadelphia region, set the goal of reducing its lighting energy consumption by at least 30% without sacrificing illumination quality. To accomplish that - and much more, Jefferson partnered with Encelium Technologies, the manufacturer of the Energy Control System™ (ECS). Encelium customized its innovative lighting control and energy management solution for Jefferson, which has more than 4 million square feet of clinical, research, teaching and housing property.

HARRISBURG, PA - March 23, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- State Treasurer Rob McCord today announced that the Pennsylvania Treasury will offer a webinar series to help employers understand and prepare for their statutory responsibility to report unclaimed property to Treasury by April 15 of each year

HARRISBURG, PA - March 16, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) --At a banquet held on today at the agency’s headquarters, the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency honored its top-10 participating lenders for its homeownership programs. These lenders assist homebuyers throughout the state in the application, processing, and closing of PHFA loans. Brian Hudson, executive director and CEO, recognized these outstanding organizations in their efforts to assist Commonwealth families and individuals achieve the American dream of homeownership

HARRISBURG, PA - March 15, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Commonwealth Cornerstone Group, a nonprofit corporation created by the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency, has secured $28 million in new markets tax credit (NMTC) allocations from the U.S. Treasury Department's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund.

HILLSBOROUGH, N.J. - March 10, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Tilghman Square, the neighborhood shopping center located at the intersection of West Tilghman Street & Broadway in South Whitehall, PA, has welcomed two new retail tenants

Darby, PA (Delaware County) - March 9, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Metro Commercial Real Estate, Inc., the region’s premier full-service retail real estate company, has negotiated four new leases totaling 33,113 SF at the new Darby Town Center, 150 South MacDade Boulevard in Darby, PA

Upper Marlboro, MD - February 23, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Tomorrow, Michelle Desiderio, director of green building programs for the NAHB Research Center, will present a program on "Marketing Green Building to Customers" at this year’s Pennsylvania Housing & Land Development Conference at Penn State University. Desiderio will also conduct a roundtable discussion on the National Green Building Standard and the NAHB Research Center's national certification program based on the Standard

EUGENE, OR - February 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX Broker software has revolutionized the search capabilities on real estate professional Nancy Unangst's website, thanks to the partnership between IDX, Inc. and the Lehigh Valley MLS (LVMLS). Unangst's custom IDX solution now extracts raw listing data from the LVMLS, seamlessly integrating and displaying thousands of property listings directly onto the search page she hosts. Finding a home online online in Allentown, Pennsylvania and the surrounding areas has never been easier!