Yearly Archives: 2013

EUGENE, OR - August 12, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. welcomes the latest addition of real estate professionals choosing to adopt the IDX Broker software, Denise Barnes of Midway, Kentucky. The dynamic IDX solution now employed on the website of Barnes pulls property listings directly from the Lexington Bluegrass MLS (LBAR), giving potential buyers thousands of homes to conveniently search through on the search page Barnes hosts. With the tools available to home seekers on her IDX enabled website, they can experience one of the most thorough and in-depth online property searches around.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Andy Barr released the following regarding yesterday’s passage by the Financial Services Committee of H.R. 2767, The Protecting American Taxpayers and Homeowners Act (PATH Act), legislation to end taxpayer-funded bailouts of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and create a sustainable housing finance system for America.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 12, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- 3. Kentucky Higher Education Student Loan Corporation (KHESLC) A Resolution of the State Property and Buildings Commission of the Commonwealth of Kentucky approving the issuance by the Kentucky Higher Education Student Loan Corporation of Student Loan Asset-Backed Notes, Series 2013-2, pursuant to a General Bond Resolution or to an Indenture of Trust, Supplements thereto and an Authorizing Resolution of the Corporation to be issued as Senior and Subordinate Subseries of Federally Taxable or Tax-Exempt Obligations in a combined aggregate principal amount not to exceed $625,000,000. (Resolution 2013-18)

FRANKFORT, KY - July 3, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Kentucky Department of Revenue has set the 2013 State Real Property Tax Rate at 12.2 cents per $100 of assessed value. Kentucky Revised Statute 132.020 requires the Department of Revenue to set the real property rate no later than July 1 of each year.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 21, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Kentucky Commission on Human Rights will host a Fair Housing Center on Saturday, June 22, during the radio station WLOU Summerfest at Chickasaw Park in Louisville, Ky., from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. (EDT). The event is open to the public.

LOUISVILLE, KY - June 19, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Declaring “the road to the region’s future starts here,” Governor Steve Beshear officially signaled the start of construction on the Downtown Crossing of the Ohio River Bridges Project – the first new bridge at the Falls of the Ohio in half a century.

FRANKFORT, KY - June 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Kentucky Asset/Liability Commission (ALCo) will hold a meeting on Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at 10 a.m. in Room 285 of the Capitol Annex, Frankfort, Kentucky, 40601. Immediately following adjournment of the ALCo meeting, the State Property and Buildings Commission (SPBC) will convene at approximately 10:15 a.m. in Room 285 of the Capitol Annex, Frankfort, Kentucky.

EUGENE, OR - June 10, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- With new agents and brokers adding customizable IDX solutions daily, IDX, Inc. is pleased to welcome Janey Perkins to the ever-expanding network of real estate professionals who have enhanced the online property search capabilities they host online. IDX Broker software now seamlessly integrates Heart of Kentucky MLS (HKMLS) listings directly onto the website Perkins supports. A thorough and comprehensive IDX enabled search page allows Elizabethtown, Kentucky home seekers to quickly and easily find the property of their dreams without leaving the convenience of the website of Perkins

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 4, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway today announced the distribution of more than $11 million to 7,801 eligible borrowers in Kentucky for mortgage servicing abuses. Checks to borrowers who submitted valid claims will be mailed June 10 through June 17, 2013.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - May 21, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway today announced that the nation’s five largest mortgage servicers continue to provide direct relief to homeowners in Kentucky and across the country as part of the historic national mortgage foreclosure settlement. According to the fourth post-settlement report released today by the independent settlement monitor, 1,757 Kentucky homeowners received more than $61.1 million in settlement-related relief from Ally/GMAC, Bank of America, Citi, Chase and Wells Fargo through March 31, 2013. Borrowers received an average of $34,806 in assistance

WASHINGTON, D.C. - May 9, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Yesterday, Sen. Rand Paul introduced the Defense of Environment and Property Act along with Sens. Mike Lee (Utah), Marco Rubio (Fla.), David Vitter (La.) and Mitch McConnell (Ky.). This act will bring common sense back to federal water policy by redefining "navigable waters," excluding ephemeral or intermittent streams from federal jurisdiction, and restraining the powers that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers hold over American landowners

FRANKFORT, KY - May 2, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Kentucky Arts Council is sponsoring a colloquium for local leaders who are interested in using the arts as a community-building tool.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 22, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- On April 4, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear signed into law a measure that sets up one of the strongest home visiting systems in the country by building on the strength of Kentucky’s flagship home visiting program for new and expectant parents, the Health Access Nurturing Development Services (HANDS) Program. HANDS achieves outcomes such as lowering the rates of preterm births and infant mortality, and reducing childhood injuries, neglect, and emergency room usage

Reston, Virginia - February 18, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- MERSCORP Holdings, Inc. today announced that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled in favor of MERSCORP Holdings, Inc. and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (collectively, MERS) and a number of MERS members by affirming a U.S. District Court dismissal of a recording fee suit filed jointly by Christian and Washington County Clerks in Kentucky.

LOUISVILLE - February 11, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- A purported Louisville real estate entrepreneur was sentenced in United States District Court today by District Judge Charles R. Simpson, III to 37 months in federal prison and was ordered to pay $2,797,000 in restitution for a single count of mail fraud connected to real estate schemes that resulted in the loss of more than $1 million to investors, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky. There is no parole in the federal system.