Houston, TX - October 19, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Chipotle Mexican Grill has signed a new lease for 2,397 sq. ft. at The Crossing at 518, which is located in Pearland, Texas. Matt Keener, Russell Janicek and Mark Raines of CB Richard Ellis represented the tenant in this transaction. James Namken and Randy Hopper of the Weitzman Group represented the Landlord.

EUGENE, OR - October 13, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Austin, Texas potential home buyers are in luck! IDX, Inc. and Chad Cardani have teamed up to bring home seekers a customized IDX solution on the real estate website Cardani hosts. Austin MLS (ACTRIS) listings are seamlessly displayed right on his website, thanks to the IDX technology that automatically syncs up-to-the-second ACRTIS property listing information online. The online property search is easier than ever before, when home seekers utilize the amazing and dynamic IDX solution on the website of Cardani.

EUGENE, OR - October 12, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Bruce Hines and IDX, Inc. have teamed up to deliver North Texas Real Estate MLS (NTREIS) listings to home seekers around the Dallas-Fort Worth area, with the new IDX solution Hines has employed. Thousands of NTREIS listings are now automatically integrated onto the website of Hines, giving potential buyers a diverse group of property listings to search through from the comfort of their own homes and the convenience of his website.

Washington, D.C. - October 6, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Rubén Hinojosa announced a $100,000 grant was awarded to Refugio County by the U.S. Department of Agriculture under the Rural Development Housing Preservation Grants Program to repair and improve rural homes for low and very-low-income residents.

DALLAS, TX - October 6, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Grubb & Ellis Apartment REIT, Inc. today announced the acquisition of Mission Rock Ridge Apartments, a 226-unit multifamily community in Arlington, located between Dallas and Fort Worth. The acquisition closed on Sept. 30, 2010.

EL PASO, TX - October 6, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today reached an agreement with Wells Fargo & Co. that will provide $5 million in relief to more than 200 Texas homeowners who had “payment option” adjustable rate mortgage loans with the bank.

Washington, D.C. - October 6, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Concerned that federal bank regulators are making the challenges confronting America's commercial real estate sector worse, U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) has introduced legislation to stabilize commercial mortgage lending and strengthen private investment in the commercial real estate market.

New York, NY - October 6, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- The renowned Greenhouse Spa in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, a favorite exclusive retreat for nearly every first lady from Nancy Reagan to Lady Bird Johnson, as well as such celebrity names as Grace Kelly, Cindy Crawford, Brooke Shields, Paloma Picasso and Estée Lauder, among others, will be sold at auction on Wednesday, November 19th announced Douglas Johnson, managing director, of CBRE Auction Services.

Houston, TX - October 5, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- CB Richard Ellis has assisted in a 51,147 sq. ft. retail lease renewal to The RoomStore, which is situated in The Commons at Willowbrook retail shopping center and is located at 7690 FM 1960 Road in northwest Houston. Matt Keener, Alex Makris, Jazz Hamilton and Andrew Kelson of CB Richard Ellis represented the landlord, The Commons at Willowbrook, Inc., in this transaction

EUGENE, OR - October 1, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Tony Fernandez has chosen to revitalize his real estate website with the IDX, Inc. dynamic IDX Broker software. Thousands of Austin MLS (ACTRIS) listings are now available for home seekers around Austin to search through. Fernandez has long had access to the ACTRIS listings, but now the revolutionary IDX technology brings property listings to the fingertips of those looking for homes. Never before has a simpler or easier-to-use online real estate solution been available to home seekers on the go

Houston, TX - September 30, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- CB Richard Ellis and Brookfield Real Estate Opportunity Fund (BREOF) are please to announce the execution of eight, multi-tenant office lease deals at 712 Main Street, a 792,000 square foot office building located in Houston’s Central Business District.

EUGENE, OR - September 27, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jay Carter and IDX, Inc. have teamed up to bring thousands of property listings to Austin, Texas home seekers. Now, Austin MLS (ACTRIS) listings are easy to find and tour virtually on the IDX enabled website of Carter. Never before has a simpler or more effective online solution created an easier-to-use real estate search process

EUGENE, OR - September 27, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. welcomes the latest real estate professional to adopt IDX Broker software, Kevan Pewitt of Houston Prime Realty in Houston, Texas. Pewitt has enabled the powerful IDX solution, which extracts raw listing data from the Houston MLS (HARMLS) and seamlessly integrates them among his own listings. Potential buyers in Houston can now quickly and efficiently scan thousands of properties on the real estate website Pewitt hosts, making it the logical first step for home seekers searching for homes online

Houston, TX - September 27, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- CB Richard Ellis has closed on two office leases at Lakes on Post Oak, located at 3050 Post Oak Boulevard in Houston's Galleria/Uptown area. Both leases combined total 12,631 sq. ft. and include a 6,662 sq. ft. new lease to Dahill and a 5,969 sq. ft. new lease for the Houston offices of Neptune Holdings. The 17-story Class A tower is situated on 28-acres with a four-acre lake and is part of a 3-building complex.

Houston, TX - September 24, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- CB Richard Ellis is pleased to announce that East Belt Business Park is now 100% leased. The 350,000 sq. ft., four-building complex is a development of Trammell Crow Company and Morgan Stanley Prime Property Fund. The speculative project was constructed in two-phases, with the second phase completed in 2008. The Class A warehouse/distribution park is situated near the Port of Houston along the East Sam Houston Parkway South in Pasadena, Texas.

Houston, TX - September 22, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- CB Richard Ellis has closed on two office leases at Lakes on Post Oak, located at 3050 Post Oak Boulevard in Houston's Galleria/Uptown area. Both leases combined total 12,631 sq. ft. and include a 6,662 sq. ft. new lease to Dahill and a 5,969 sq. ft. new lease for the Houston offices of Neptune Holdings. The 17-story Class A tower is situated on 28-acres with a four-acre lake and is part of a 3-building complex

Washington, D.C. - September 21, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Congressman Al Green (TX-09) announced that the City of Houston and Harris County have been awarded significant funding as part of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP), which is coordinated by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Dallas, TX - September 21, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will be awarding Dallas County with a $2,342,611 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), a $93,098 Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) and a $773,694 HOME grant.

September 20, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Unlike the beasts, mankind survives because he is a scientist. We cannot physically compete with animals that can fly, or run and swim faster than us, who can drink dirty water and combat the bacteria in it, or who multiply in such sheer numbers that they survive despite losing 95% of their offspring each generation. No, human beings survive in this universe because our nature is to figure out the natural laws of physics, and domesticate them, building infrastructure, to reflect those laws in the world we create. We build farms to feed each other, build machines to aid our productivity, and build our knowledge, to improve our culture, and the technology of our infrastructure, from one generation to the next.

September 20, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- True to his fascist character, Nero Obama is playing golf while the United States burns. Every day, new reports emerge of the effects of our nation’s collapsing infrastructure and bankrupt localities: fire and police departments are laying off emergency responders, social safety nets are being eliminated, and cities across the country are faced with horrifying conditions. Now Detroit, just one of the 2,000 municipalities denied Federal relief, by Obama, is burning down.