Arizona RealEstateRama

PHOENIX, AZ - November 19, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee & Associates Arizona is pleased to announce the promotion of Matt McDougall to Principal. Matt joined Lee as an Associate nearly three years ago and has garnered the respect of his peers as well as having achieved several sales benchmarks to achieve his promotion.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ - November 7, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- A 7,707 SF offi ce building located at 7000 E. 1st Ave. in Old Town Scottsdale was recently sold for $2,150,000. Price per square foot was calculated at $278.97.

Phoenix, AZ - November 6, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Tom Horne is announcing the settlement of a consumer fraud case against Stan Nii-Addo Allotey, Jr., owner of Mortgage Relief Group, d.b.a. Mortgage Assistance Group, for engaging in deceptive loan modification services. Mr. Allotey and his company are now barred from conducting any foreclosure consulting business and engaging in telephone solicitation sales.

Scottsdale, AZ - October 31, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Scottsdale, Arizona Coldwell Banker Luxury Real Estate has no problem offering 30% below asking price for people considering buying real estate here in Arizona. This is your hard earned money at stake. When making the biggest investment of your life, you need aggressive representation. Every single day Realtors offer 3% to 7% below asking price. This is, simply states, not representing your best interests. If we see properties listed at 4 million dollars, rest assured we will make an initial offer at 2.8 million

PHOENIX, AZ - October 8, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee & Associates Arizona is pleased to announce the hiring of Will Barnard to the company. He will be reporting to Todd Braun, Principal and head of the Braun Apartment Group and will focus on apartment and land sales in the Phoenix area

WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva congratulated several Southern Arizona recipients of recent grants and federal awards that will improve the lives of local constituents and highlighted upcoming grant application deadlines. Details are below

Phoenix, AZ - September 18, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Tom Horne has filed a consumer fraud lawsuit against Phoenix-based Making All Homes Affordable, LLC (MAHA), its owner and manager, Albert Figueroa, and one of its salespersons, Steve Villanueva.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ - September 18, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Occidental Fire & Casualty has signed a 7-year lease for 18,100 SF at Canyon Village, Building B, 18867 N. Thompson Peak Pkwy. in Scottsdale. The new lease offers IAT an upgraded facility opportunity to grow compared with their previous space.

Washington, D.C. ­- September 18, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) today sent a letter to Thomas S. Winkowski, Acting Commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, seeking information on the recently completed $12.8 million housing complex for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents in Ajo, Arizona. Each of the 21 housing units cost the American taxpayer roughly $605,000 – a staggering amount when compared to the unit cost of $100,000 for similar area housing

TUCSON - August 19, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Rep. Ron Barber has asked the Department of Homeland Security to explain why it paid $15 million to build 21 houses and buy 20 mobile homes in Ajo for Border Patrol and Customs officers – in a community where comparable homes cost far less.

San Luis, AZ - August 12, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva today announced a $1,361,760 U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to the non-profit social assistance group Comite de Bien Estar to identify, screen and prepare candidates for USDA’s Mutual Self-Help Housing Program. Under the program, families provide a substantial portion of the labor involved in building their own homes, reducing the purchase cost putting affordable housing within reach for low-income families

WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 7, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) --Today, in reaction to President Obama's speech on housing in Arizona, NCRC President and CEO John Taylor made the following statement

Phoenix, AZ - August 6, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- This summer, the Office of Mortgage Settlement Oversight released its first report detailing results of their findings around the five largest servicers’ compliance with servicing standards established by the National Mortgage Settlement (NMS). Attorney General Tom Horne is today releasing some of the highlights gathered from the report, specific to Arizona. This report demonstrates the first public step in a monitoring process that will continue for the next several years, providing the public with a new and transparent look into how banks are treating homeowners.

PHOENIX, AZ - July 23, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Over the past three years, the Phoenix industrial market has confi dently climbed its way back to recovery and historical norms in spite of hitting a bump or two. The march has been impressive as the economy began to add jobs favoring industrial users. As larger product became scarce, build-to-suit and then speculative projects took shape. Quarter after quarter, the industrial sector posted gains in most measurements. This quarter, however, leasing activity has hit its lowest level since Q1 2009 and rental rates have remained fl at for over a year

PHOENIX, AZ - July 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- There is new optimism in the offi ce market as the sector is exhibiting positive vacancy, absorption, rental rates and sales velocity. Offi ce had been the slowest commercial sector to recover and is fi nally showing signs of accelerated growth

TUCSON - July 12, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Rep. Ron Barber today welcomed an announcement that homeless and at-risk veterans and their families will benefit from nearly $3.3 million in grants awarded to three Tucson organizations by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

PHOENIX, AZ - July 11, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Two separate shopping center transactions have sold for a combined $27.4 million. Anthem Marketplace, a 113,293 SF Safeway Food and Drug anchored neighborhood shopping center located in the prestigious master planned community of Anthem in north Phoenix was sold for $23.3 million. Price per square foot was calculated at $205.66.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva today introduced the Right to Rent Act of 2013 (H.R. 2580), an updated version of a bill he originally introduced in 2009 to allow families facing foreclosure to remain in their homes as renters by paying fair market value each month

PHOENIX, AZ - June 27, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- A local company, Creative Business Resources, Inc., paid $3.1 million, or $110.34 per square foot, for an offi ce building at 1500 E. Bethany Home Rd. in Phoenix for their new corporate headquarters.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 20, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Rep. Ron Barber today completed his first year in office – a year in which he introduced 28 bipartisan pieces of legislation and his staff provided direct assistance to more than 2,500 people in Southern Arizona, recovering more than $11 million for them and saving 60 homes from foreclosure