Yearly Archives: 2011

EUGENE, OR - March 16, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. announces Austin, Texas Realtor Scott True has become the latest real estate professional to adopt a customizable IDX solution. By adding the unique IDX Broker software to his REONine.com website, True has forever changed the way he does business and communicates with his clients online. As a member of the Austin MLS (ACTRIS), True's IDX-enabled website now extracts raw listing data from ACTRIS and seamlessly integrates it onto his search pages. Thousands of Austin property listings are now easily accessible to home seekers through True's comprehensive online real estate resource.

EUGENE, OR - March 15, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. and broker Andrea McGilvray have joined forces to sync thousands of San Antonio, Texas properties onto the comprehensive search page McGilvray hosts online. Her newly IDX-enabled website gives potential buyers the unique ability to connect directly to the San Antonio MLS (SABOR) database, giving online home seekers the most up-to-date real estate listings available.

EUGENE, OR - March 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. is pleased to announce the latest real estate professional to adopt the dynamic IDX Broker software: Texas Realtor Becky Frey. Frey's customized IDX solution extracts raw listing data from the North Texas Real Estate Information Systems (NTREIS) and integrates thousands of listings onto Frey's search page displaying Dallas, Texas properties with ease. IDX Broker and the solutions it enables, has revolutionized the property search tools that Frey makes available to her clients online.

EUGENE, OR - March 3, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rodney and Sue Duplechain of Holly Realty in Big Sandy, Texas, have adopted the IDX, Inc. sponsored IDX Broker software. Their website now hosts a dynamic IDX solution which extracts raw listing data from the Tyler MLS (GTARMLS) and seamlessly integrates it onto the website the Duplechains support. By pulling hundreds of listings from GTARMLS database, the Duplechains can give their clients and other Dallas area potential buyers the unique ability to quickly and easily find a property without ever leaving the convenient search page IDX Broker and the Duplechains have created.

AUSTIN, TX - March 2, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- … Crescent Resources, LLC is bringing its innovative apartment-living concept to college students with the development of Circle West Campus at the intersection of West 25th and Longview Streets by the University of Texas

AUSTIN, TX - February 24, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Representative Stefani Carter (Dallas) has filed legislation that will expand the venues in which incidents of mortgage fraud may be prosecuted. Carter worked with the Attorney General's office to craft House Bill 1343, which will enable cases of mortgage fraud to be prosecuted in multiple venues in an effort to alleviate the burden that high case loads are placing on our courts

EUGENE, OR - February 24, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Dallas area properties just became easier to search for, thanks to the partnership of IDX, Inc. and Broker/Owner Joe Peterson of The Property Shop. North Texas Real Estate Info Systems (NTREIS) are now fully integrated onto the search page Peterson hosts, giving Texas home seekers an easy-to-use real estate resource to utilize in their online property search. With his custom IDX solution, Peterson now hosts one of the most dynamic and informative real estate websites and searches for Dallas area buyers.

Dallas, TX - February 23, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) and First American Financial Corporation (First American) today partnered with the Dallas (Texas) Area Habitat for Humanity for a Habitat for Humanity homebuilding project in the Cedar Creek Ranch community in Dallas.

Upper Marlboro, MD - February 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Betenbough Homes, based in Lubbock, Texas, recently announced that it will have all its homes Green Certified by the NAHB Research Center to the National Green Building Standard™ this year. These Green Certified homes will be offered to buyers at no additional cost

PLANO, TX - February 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- A 68-year-old Dallas man has been indicted in a commercial real estate investment scheme in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today

HOUSTON, TX - February 18, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Melvin Lendall Brown, a Houston area resident, has been sentenced to prison for wire fraud arising from a mortgage fraud scheme, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. This morning, United States District Judge David Hittner sentenced Brown, 48, to 57 months in prison for his wire fraud conviction arising from an elaborate mortgage fraud scheme in which Brown was an organizer and leader. Brown pleaded guilty to a single count of wire fraud arising from the scheme on April 20, 2010. The scheme, carried out between June 2004 and June 2005, involved numerous misrepresentations on mortgage loan applications prepared for recruited straw purchasers and supported by fraudulent documents.

EUGENE, OR - February 18, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Tyler, Texas real estate agent Kathy Smith has enabled the remarkable IDX Broker software on her professional website, making her the host of a dynamic and comprehensive real estate search function. The online property search process was once complicated for agents, brokers and home seekers alike. But now, with the IDX solution Smith employs, the online real estate search has never been a simpler, faster or more successful experience. The customized IDX tools Smith supports automatically display thousands of Tyler MLS (BTARMLS) listings, giving her clients and other East Texas home seekers comprehensive database of listings to search, while simultaneously simplifying Smith's job.

Dallas, TX - February 16, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- McGuyer Homebuilders, Inc. (MHI) today announced it will pursue the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED for Homes certification for all homes under its signature brands - Plantation Homes, Coventry Homes and Carmel Builders across the greater Dallas/Fort Worth, Tex. market. MHI, a leader in the production homebuilding community in Texas, announced its commitment at this week’s Texas Green Home Summit in Irving. With a commitment estimated at approximately 300 homes, MHI would become the largest builder of single-family LEED homes in the Texas market.

February 15, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Since September 7, 2008 the U.S. taxpayers have sunk $153 billion into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. And according to Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) the final tab could be as high as $363 billion! As if the news couldn’t get any worse for the American people, an investigation undertaken by this Subcommittee has discovered that the taxpayers have spent more than $162 million defending Fannie, Freddie and their former top executives in civil lawsuits accusing them of fraud. This includes over tens of millions dollars for former executives who knowingly and purposefully manipulated earnings to increase their own compensation, and whose actions directly contributed to the demise of the GSEs.

DALLAS, TX - February 11, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- David Boles, 52, of Colleyville, Texas, who owned Metro Buy Homes, LLC., pleaded guilty this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Irma C. Ramirez to one count of mail fraud, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. Boles faces a maximum statutory sentence of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. In addition, as part of his plea agreement with the government, Boles agrees to pay restitution for losses resulting from all of his criminal conduct and not just limited to losses stemming from his conviction offense. Boles is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle on May 26, 2011.

EUGENE, OR - February 11, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. has enabled IDX Broker software on the real estate website of yet another professional Broker/Realtor, that of Dallas, Texas broker Dorothy Warda. The unique technology her IDX solution employs has revolutionized the way Warda displays properties on her website. As a member of the North Texas Real Estate Info Systems (NTREIS), Warda can sync thousands of properties instantly with her website, giving home seekers the most comprehensive database of detailed listings available. IDX Broker software has forever changed the functionality of the website Warda supports.

AUSTIN, TX - February 9, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- State Representative Eric Johnson (Dallas) has filed three bills to better protect Texans who stand to lose their property through eminent domain.

EUGENE, OR - February 3, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. is pleased to announce Hilltops Lake, Texas real estate broker Cathy Lagravier has opted to enable a custom IDX solution on her website. Home seekers can now experience an online property search like never before available, thanks to the partnership between IDX and the Bryan-College Station MLS (BCSMLS). Thousands of detailed property listings are now synced to Lagravier's search page, giving potential buyers a comprehensive database of homes to search, without ever leaving the website Lagravier hosts. The convenient and easy-to-use IDX-enabled website of Lagravier has forever changed the Hilltops Lake home search.

HOUSTON, TX - February 1, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) will join the Houston Housing Authority as they roll out the welcome mat for more than 100 low-income families at 2:30 p.m. CT on Tuesday, February 1, at Kennedy Place, 3100 Gillespie, Houston Texas 77020. Kennedy Place is celebrating its grand opening week after being rebuilt with federal funding from the Stimulus Act, which has created thousands of jobs throughout the country while stimulating local economies, including Houston’s

EUGENE, OR - February 1, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- El Paso, Texas home seekers can now experience an online property search like never before, on the joint venture between IDX, Inc. and real estate broker David Karam. Now, Karam hosts his own customized IDX solution, giving his website a unique and specialized search capability. Thousands of El Paso MLS (EPMLS) listings are now synced to his website, allowing potential buyers to search through a complete database of local El Paso properties. With all of the unique capabilities Karam hosts on his website, his search page is the best place for El Paso home seekers to begin their property search process.