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U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson today announced five communities across the country will receive a combined $144 million to redevelop severely distressed public or assisted housing and to revitalize surrounding...

Twenty-nine real estate industry organizations, representing more than 10 million jobs, announced a ground-breaking collaboration to highlight the diverse career paths within the real estate sector. The first initiative of this collaboration is a new...

The Nationals?—the National Association of Home Builders' national sales and marketing awards program—is open for entries. Honoring the best in new-home sales, marketing and design, The Nationals competition acknowledges superior new-home sales and marketing achievements by individual sales...

Utility Revenue Services, a decade-long-plus player in utility revenue recovery for apartment properties, has extended its offerings to include LED lighting analyses and related capital projects. Rapid advancements in solid state lighting along with...

Total housing starts fell 12.3 percent in June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.17 million units, according to newly released data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Commerce Department. The June...

Builder confidence in the market for newly-built single-family homes remained unchanged at a solid 68 reading in July on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). "Consumer demand for single-family homes is holding strong...

To help end youth homelessness, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is awarding $43 million to 11 local communities, including five rural areas, through its Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP). This...

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson today announced he is approving a disaster recovery plan to help citizens in the U.S. Virgin Islands to recover from Hurricanes Irma and...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced today that it charged a New York-based developer, owner, construction company and architect with housing discrimination for failing to design and construct a condominium...

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson announced he is approving a disaster recovery plan to help Floridians recover from Hurricane Irma. In November, HUD allocated $616 million to the Sunshine...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) are pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 HUD Secretary’s Award for Healthy Homes, an award recognizing...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced today that it has charged Mobile, Alabama-based Bienville Property Management, Inc., which does business as Showhomes Mobile and Baldwin Counties, and its property manager...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced it issued notices of violation against the owners of eight HUD-assisted properties throughout California for violations of HUD’s lead safety rules and regulations. These...

The level of commercial/multifamily mortgage debt outstanding increased by $44.3 billion in the first quarter of 2018 as all four major investor groups increased their holdings. That is a 1.4 percent increase over the...

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson today announced he is approving a disaster recovery plan to help Texans recover from Hurricane Harvey. In November, HUD Deputy Secretary Pamela Hughes...