Massachusetts RealEstateRama

BOSTON, MA - December 7, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- MassHousing announced $7.7 million in loan closings today for the acquisition, rehabilitation and preservation of affordability of the 144-unit Harborview Towers in New Bedford.

BOSTON, MA - December 6, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- MassHousing was honored with an All Inclusive Award in the category of Supplier Diversity by Color Magazine for the Agency’s dedication and success in promoting the use of Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (M/WBEs).

WASHINGTON, D.C. - December 1, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Representative Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today led a letter, cosigned by 62 of his colleagues in the House of Representatives, calling for funding the Low-Income Home Heating Assistance Program (LIHEAP) through September 30, 2011 at least at the FY2010 levels of $5.1 billion – the highest funding level in the history of the program.

December 1, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- City officials, Governor Deval Patrick, and Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation today celebrated the continued revitalization of the Blue Hill Avenue corridor at a ribbon cutting ceremony for Nuestra’s $22 million mixed-use development at the former Kasanof Bakery site in Roxbury, dedicated today as the Thomas I. Atkins Apartments.

BOSTON, MA - November 26, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- A local mortgage broker has pled guilty in connection with participating in a complex scheme in which fraudulent documents were used to defraud homeowners and mortgage lenders in real estate transactions involving 26 distressed properties in the Greater Boston area, Attorney General Martha Coakley’s Office has announced.

BOSTON, MA - November 19, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- A real estate investor and a local mortgage broker have pled guilty for their roles in a complex scheme in which fraudulent documents were used to defraud homeowners and mortgage lenders in real estate transactions involving 26 distressed properties in the Greater Boston area, Attorney General Martha Coakley’s Office has announced.

WORCESTER, MA - November 17, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- An Oxford man has been sentenced to State Prison after pleading guilty in Worcester Superior Court for his role in a complex scheme in which fraudulent documents were used to defraud homeowners and mortgage lenders in numerous real estate transactions involving distressed properties in the Worcester County area, Attorney General Martha Coakley’s Office announced today.

BOSTON, MA - November 16, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- MassHousing has awarded $453,037 in financing to help create or preserve more than 100 units of affordable sober housing in eight communities across Massachusetts.

November 8, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Menino today welcomed new homeowners to Twenty at Luma, the final phase of the Boston Housing Authority’s Orchard HOPE VI Redevelopment effort. Currently, seven families have moved in and others are due to be moving in during the next few weeks.

Washington, D.C. - November 5, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Department of Energy announced yesterday that as of September 30, 2010, Massachusetts has weatherized more than 6,900 homes with funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Recovery Act, plus more than 2,800 additional homes with annual funding for the weatherization program. In total, the state has already weatherized more than 9,700 homes since the Recovery Act began. As a result of this progress, the state will now have access to an additional $61 million in Recovery Act weatherization funding to continue providing energy efficiency services to Massachusetts’ low-income families.

November 1, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Thomas M. Menino has announced the newest initiative in moving forward his plan to make Boston one of the greenest cities in America. The City has released a comprehensive Solar Permitting Guide and Mayor Menino has filed a new ordinance that will reduce building permit fees for building owners implementing solar rooftop technologies. The announcement was made at A View from the Top: Sustainable Roofs in Boston, an event hosted by the Mayor’s Office of Environmental and Energy Services and the Boston Redevelopment Authority.

November 1, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Thomas M. Menino today joined the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation (JPNDC), New Atlantic Development Corporation (NADC), Harvard University officials, and community members in celebrating the new Doña Betsaida Gutiérrez Housing Cooperative, located at the corner of Centre and Creighton Streets. The mixed-use building, named for a long time Jamaica Plain activist, is the latest completed phase of affordable housing development at the $50 million Blessed Sacrament parish site

BOSTON, MA - October 29, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Governor Deval Patrick today announced that the state will target $2,513,973 in federal weatherization recovery funds to replace old, inefficient heating systems with new state-of-the-art units for public housing authorities in Chicopee, Hopkinton, Leominster, Lunenburg, Mansfield, Middleboro, Provincetown, Randolph, Reading, Spencer, Wakefield, Whitman, Winchendon, Winchester and Woburn

BOSTON, MA - October 25, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- MassHousing recently recognized the efforts of 95 property management companies that make a concerted effort to do business with Minority and Women-Owned Businesses (M/WBEs).

BOSTON, MA - October 21, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- MassHousing was honored with a Leader in Diversity Award today by the Boston Business Journal for the Agency’s dedication and success in promoting the use of Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (M/WBEs)