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You need someone you can sincerely trust and rely on. Buying or selling a home is a substantial decision. You need professional full-time agents, committed to help you through the entire process.

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Today's Rates:

Mtg Loan    Rate  APR
30-yr Fixed3.98%4.11%
15-yr Fixed3.24%3.41%
1-yr Adj2.74%3.4%
* national averages



National & Local Tri-Cities Real Estate News:
 
HUD PROVIDES $400 MILLION TO HELP COMMUNITIES IN EIGHT STATES TO RECOVER FROM 2011 DISASTERS
1/20/2012 6:07 AM
WASHINGTON - U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan today allocated $400 million in emergency aid to help communities in eight states to recover from presidentially declared natural disasters in 2011. Provided through HUD's Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program, these grants will support long-term disaster recov...Read More
 
FHA ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL STEPS TO LIMIT RISK AND STRENGTHEN FINANCES
1/20/2012 6:07 AM
WASHINGTON - Today, Acting Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Commissioner Carol J. Galante announced the latest in a series of steps to protect and strengthen the FHA's Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund, while enabling the agency to continue to fulfill its mission to provide access to homeownership for qualified borrowers...Read More
 
HUD AWARDS $6.8 MILLION TO HELP LOCAL COMMUNITIES UNDERSTAND THE SCALE OF HOMELESSNESS IN THEIR AREAS
1/18/2012 6:07 AM
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today awarded $6.8 million to help local communities across this country to assess the nature and scope of their homeless challenge as part of a broader Administration goal of preventing and ending homelessness. The technical assistance grants awarded today will ultimately help stat...Read More
 
HUD EXPANDS JOB AND CONTRACTING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW-INCOME INDIVIDUALS AND THE BUSINESSES THAT HIRE THEM
1/18/2012 6:07 AM
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced that it is launching a Section 3 Business Registry pilot program in Washington, D.C. that will expand job opportunities for low-income people and public housing residents by maintaining a registry of businesses that currently hire them. Additionally, HUD will ...Read More
 
HUD MAKES $110 MILLION AVAILABLE TO REVITALIZE COMMUNITIES
1/10/2012 6:07 AM
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today that it is making available $110 million in grants to transform public and assisted housing and to revitalize communities. Appearing in today's Federal Register is the Notice of Funding Availability, the federal application, for the FY 2012 Choice Neighborhoods Imple...Read More




National & Local Tri-Cities Real Estate News:
 
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Studies Effectiveness of New Fuel Cell Technology
1/27/2012 9:47 AM

Today when speaking about alternative energy sources, the images of solar panels and windmills often come to mind.  But in the future, you might envision a refrigerator-like box, about 5 feet 6 inches tall, replacing your air conditioner or heat pump. The machine houses fuel cells that draw hydrogen molecules out. Then, through an electro...Read More

 
Richland Makes “Best Places to Live” List
1/27/2012 9:47 AM

Richland and four other Washington cities (Tacoma, Bellevue, Vancouver and Spokane) are among a list of the 100 Best Places to Live in America, according to a new report.  RelocateAmerica, based in Brighton, Mich., said the 100 cities are "well-positioned for economic recovery, already experiencing strong economic recovery or have pr...Read More

 
Attend the PREMIER Manufacturing Expo in the Pacific Northwest - Smartmap Expo 2011
1/27/2012 9:47 AM

Grow Your Business with Advanced Manufacturing

Find out which Advanced Manufacturing concepts work for you , and which don't . . . by registering today to exhibit at the Premier Manufacturing Networking Event in the Pacific Northwest!


Cost to exhibit is ONLY $500 and registration includes:

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Innovatek Receives Army Contract for Portable Power Technolgoy
1/27/2012 9:47 AM

Richland-based company that creates sustainable power products and engineering solutions, has received a $750,000 contract from the Department of Defense to do research and development of a processor the produces hydrogen from butanol for fuel cells.

 

InnovaTek, which completed the feasibility study of its technology fo...Read More

 
HANFORD STORY WINS NORHTWEST EMMY AWARD
1/27/2012 9:47 AM

Video Provides Overview of History and Cleanup of Hanford Site

RICHLAND, Wash. - The first chapter of The Hanford Story multimedia series, Hanford Overview, has received an Emmy for best Historical/Cultural - Program/Special. The award was presented by the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences at ...Read More

 
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AWARDS $994,600 TO CBC & WSU TRI-CITIES
1/27/2012 9:47 AM

Tri-Cities, WA - The two higher education institutions in the Tri-Cities collaborated with the Tri-City Development Council to receive a $994,600 award from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management to build the next generation of project management, nuclear engineering, and radiation safety professionals.

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TRIDEC Requests Hanford Land for Economic Growth
1/27/2012 9:47 AM

The Tri-City Development Council asked the Department of Energy on Tuesday for 1,341 acres of Hanford land next to Richland city limits for economic development.

 

"TRIDEC intends this to be the first of several requests which will help offset future Hanford staff reductions," wrote Carl Adrian, TRIDEC presiden...Read More

 
New Chapter of Young Professionals In Energy Starts Here!
1/27/2012 9:47 AM

Kennewick, WA- The first Pacific Northwest Chapter of Young Professionals In Energy (YPE) has been chartered in Kennewick, WA.

Young Professionals in Energy (“YPE”) is a non-profit energy industry networking organization with over 20,000 members worldwide.  YPE is dedicated to providing a forum for ne...Read More

 
Vit Plant Engineers Complete Civil Design of High Level Waste Facility
1/27/2012 9:47 AM

Richland, Wash. -- Engineers at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, also known as the “Vit Plant,” recently completed the civil, structural and architectural design for the High-Level Waste Facility. When complete, the building will consist of more than 87,000 cubic yards of concrete and more than 10,000 tons of str...Read More

 
END OF CLEANUP WITHIN REACH
1/27/2012 9:47 AM

HANFORD CLEANUP –

Proposed reductions in the House to DOE Environmental Management and to Hanford Cleanup funding in the last-half of this fiscal year does not make sense.  

There has been significant progress in cleaning up the River Corridor and removing the plutonium from the Central Plateau as a res...Read More





 

 


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