Yearly Archives: 2010

EUGENE, OR - May 4, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. has the pleasure of welcoming Heather Williams with Roost Realty in Portland, Oregon, to the rapidly expanding network of real estate agents and brokers using their primary application, the highly customizable IDX Broker software. With the addition and integration of this custom IDX solution, Williams will be able to display Regional Multiple Listing Service (RMLS) data, directly onto her own personal website, providing potential home buyers with immediate and direct access to the most up-to-date listing information on the market, and all from the convenience of one specific website. Home seekers will be able to browse a plethora of listings, in an easy-to-navigate and user-friendly format, creating the most hassle-free and effortless real estate search on the web. This greatly simplifies Williams' job, allotting her more time to spend personalizing the online property search process for each individual consumer.

Salem, OR - April 20, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Residents of communities across Oregon can share their perspectives on local barriers to fair housing at a series of forums in late April and early May.

EUGENE, OR - April 14, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- With new accounts being added daily, IDX Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of Bill Gaffney, of Change Realty in Lake Oswego, Oregon to the forward thinking group of real estate agents and brokers who are enhancing and simplifying their websites with custom IDX Broker software. Gaffney's clients now have the unique ability to customize their home searches, with even the most specific features, in order to find their ideal property. As a member of the Regional Multiple Listing Service (RMLS), Gaffney's website offers potential home buyers a broad range of the most up-to-date listings in Lake Oswego, with an ease not found on other agents' websites

Washington, D.C. - March 29, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Treasury Department announced Monday that Oregon will be eligible for $88 million to help families living in areas that have been hit hardest by the housing crisis to stay in their homes.

Salem, OR - March 3, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- As part of an ongoing effort to help homeowners avoid foreclosure, state agencies are organizing a foreclosure-prevention event in Bend on Saturday, March 27.

PORTLAND, OR - February 9, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Joel D. Surprenant, 43, of West Linn, Oregon, pled guilty today to the crime of bank fraud. Surprenant is scheduled to appear again before U.S. District Judge Robert E. Jones on May 12, 2010, for sentencing on these charges.

Portland, OR. - February 4, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley joined HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D- Ore.) and Governor Ted Kulongoski via video today to announce the creation of the Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities within HUD.

PORTLAND, Ore. - January 25, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee Moore has been elected chair of the Housing Authority of Portland’s (HAP’s) Board of Commissioners for 2010, and Brian Lessler and Amie Pico have been appointed to the nine-member citizen commission.