Yearly Archives: 2013

Las Vegas, TX - December 30, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Las Vegas-area home sales fell last month to the lowest level for a November in five years, the result of a constrained supply of homes for sale, waning affordability and the ongoing decline in investor purchases. The median sale price dipped slightly month-to-month but was still 26 percent higher than a year earlier, marking the 20th consecutive month with a year-over-year gain, a real estate information service reported

DALLAS - December 20, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- In recognition of over a decade of excellence in commercial real estate, Trey Fricke, SIOR, principal at Lee & Associates Dallas-Fort Worth, was one of the recipients of the 2013 Leaders of Lee award at the Lee broker’s summit, which was held recently in Las Vegas. The award was created to give recognition to those who have made exceptional contributions to the firm and the industry, as a whole.

San Antonio, TX: - December 19, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Representative Pete P. Gallego (TX-23) today announced a $4,281,450 federal grant to replace water piping, rehabilitate ground storage tanks and renovate a pump station in Reagan County. The funds are made available through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development division.

Torrance, CA - December 10, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Partner Engineering and Science, Inc. (Partner), a national engineering, environmental and energy consulting firm with offices in Dallas and Houston, has been rated the number one service provider of Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs) in Texas and nationally for the third-quarter of 2013 by Environmental Data Resources, Inc. (EDR) ScoreKeeper– the nationwide market monitor for the environmental due diligence industry.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - November 6, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today approved a $5 million State of Texas disaster plan to primarily assist Bastrop County to recover from devastating wildfires in 2011. This disaster recovery plan will rely on grants provided earlier this year through HUD’s Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program.

Northbrook, IL - October 23, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- October 22, 2013)- The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, has completed the sale of a single tenant net leased Walgreens property located at 2300 Pecan Boulevard in McAllen, TX for $2,284,000.

San Antonio, TX - October 22, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- An affiliate of USAA Real Estate Company and a Cencor Realty Services’ joint venture have acquired an investment stake in the H-E-B-anchored Culebra Market, a 232,126-square-foot grocery-anchored retail center in San Antonio, Texas. Cencor Realty Services is the property management and development affiliate of The Weitzman Group, which leases the center. Cencor developed the property and will continue to operate it under the new joint venture arrangement

AUSTIN, TX - October 21, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- According to the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) report released today by the Austin Board of REALTORS® (ABoR), the volume of Austin-area home sales continued to rise in September and had the most single-family home sales for the month since 2005

Austin Board of REALTORS® Trade Show Draws Over 2,000 Attendees AUSTIN, TX - October 21, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Austin Board of REALTORS®’ (ABoR)...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 16, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee & Associates, one of the largest broker-owned commercial real estate firms in the country, has added, Scott Alexander, Navy veteran as an industrial broker associate to its Dallas office

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 16, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee & Associates, one of the largest broker-owned commercial real estate firms in the country, has completed a 100,100-square-foot building sale located at 3011 Pinewood Dr. in Arlington, Texas.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 16, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Annise Parker and Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC), one of America’s leading community banks and the nation’s largest home mortgage lender, today announced the company will make donations totaling $760,000 over three years for two Houston-based nonprofits to help support Mayor Annise Parker’s goal of ending chronic homelessness.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 15, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, released the following statement upon the announcement of the winners of the Nobel Prize in economics.

AUSTIN, TX - October 9, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, the Austin Board of REALTORS® (ABoR) announced plans to give brokers autonomy in deciding whether to syndicate data to non-REALTOR® consumer websites after April 30, 2013.

Northbrook, IL - September 30, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, has completed the sale of a single tenant net leased Walgreens property located at 9350 Highway 6 South in Houston, Texas for $5,150,000

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 30, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today-Congressman Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX-15) announced the McAllen-Miller International Airport was awarded a Small Community Air Service Development grant of $750,000 by the U.S. Department of Transportation. The purpose of the Small Community Air Service Development Grant program is to provide funding support to help small airports, such as McAllen, attract air service to locations not being served by other airlines at this time

Torrance, CA - September 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Auction.com, the nation’s leading online real estate marketplace, raised $50,000 during a charity guitar auction on Sept. 10, 2013. Proceeds benefitted the Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity, a non-profit organization that builds affordable homes for those in poverty, and the Military Warriors Support Foundation, which provides assistance for wounded veterans through home donation, academic and employment assistance and recreational activities for families.

Floresville, TX - September 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- On Tuesday, September 24th,Congressman Henry Cuellar (TX-28) presented $826,127 in federal funds to the Frank Tejeda Veterans’ Home in Floresville.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 20, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- What if you learned that a group of domestic troublemakers was planning to destabilize the U.S. economy and invite ruinous hardship on millions of Americans, mainly women, children, the disabled and the elderly? What if you discovered that their plan was to increase unemployment, hunger, homelessness, poverty and poor health? To slow local economies still reeling from a sluggish (or nonexistent) recovery, and push deprivation to Third World levels? Would you sit idly by and let this happen? Or would you fight back

AUSTIN, TX - September 18, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, the Austin Board of REALTORS® (ABoR) announced a partnership with Leadership Austin as the presenting sponsor for the 2013-14 ENGAGE Breakfast Series, a monthly event that brings together high profile Austin leaders and key stakeholders to present in-depth and interactive discussions on important, timely, and often complex regional issues