Yearly Archives: 2015

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Today, the House Financial Services Housing and Insurance Subcommittee Chairman Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-03) held a hearing to examine the Rural Housing Service.

U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill today slammed the failure of Republican leaders in Congress to reauthorize highway funding and other long-term infrastructure projects, calling the alternative short-term fixes a “Band-Aid on a cancer.”

Today, the House Financial Services Housing and Insurance Subcommittee Chairman Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-03) held a hearing to examine the cost and benefits of changes to the real estate settlement process, specifically the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure rule being finalized by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)

Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler (MO-4) and the House have approved legislation she co-sponsors requiring the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Army Corps of Engineers to withdraw their proposed rule defining and expanding the scope of waters protected by the Clean Water Act. The Regulatory Integrity Protection Act – H.R. 1732 – would require the EPA and the Corps to develop a new rule, working with local governments and citizens, to classify Waters of the United States and clarify who has jurisdiction

United Country Real Estate – the nation’s leading lifestyle, small city and rural real estate company – is celebrating its 90-year anniversary during May, the month the firm was established in 1925. Founded by Roscoe Chamberlain in Kansas City, Mo., the company began looking for ways to advertise local properties nationally long before television and the internet. United Country changed the real estate industry forever by producing the first national real estate catalog to expose local small city, town and surrounding properties for sale on a much broader scale, regionally and nationally.

Lee & Associates, one of the largest national commercial real estate providers with regional expertise, has closed the $25,400,000 investment sale of two retail buildings located in the Big Bend Crossing shopping center of Crestwood, Missouri, a St Louis suburb. The buildings, located at 10244 & 10248 Big Bend Road were occupied by long-term tenants, Sam’s Club and Hardee’s, at the time of the purchase

Today the House of Representatives voted on Congressman Jason Smith’s language to bar the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from using any funds to implement the damaging Waters of the United States rule. The language was included in H.R. 2028, the FY2016 Energy & Water Appropriations bill, which passed the House 240-177.

Leading Blue Springs based apartment property management firm Premier Real Estate Management has guaranteed maximum possible ROI for property investors across Kansas & Missouri.

Colliers International, a leading global real estate services and investment firm, today announced the following transactions. Sales (April 19, 2015) Morrill & Janes Bank and Trust Company sold 14 acres of commercial land located at 15310 S Mahaffie Street, Olathe, Kansas to Grayson Enterprises. John Stafford SIOR, CCIM of Colliers International negotiated the transaction on behalf of the Seller. The Buyer was not represented.

Maxus Realty Trust, Inc. (“MRTI”), a real estate investment trust with corporate headquarters located in North Kansas City, MO, announced today that Mr. W. Robert Kohorst has resigned from the board of trustees effective April 3, 2015. To fill the vacancy resulting from Mr. Kohorst’s resignation, MRTI’s Board of Trustees has nominated Mr. David Brain for election at the 2015 annual meeting of shareholders scheduled for May 21, 2015

Today, on the 100th day of the new GOP Congress, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, II called on House Republicans to come together and get to work to improve our economy and invest in our infrastructure.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced today that it has reached two Voluntary Compliance Agreements (VCAs) with the Housing Authority of Independence (HAI), Missouri, resolving HUD findings which showed that the agency failed to provide persons with disabilities and individuals with limited English proficiency meaningful access to its HUD-funded housing programs

The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) has agreed to implement a statewide compliance program and to pay a $750,000 civil penalty to settle alleged violations of the Clean Water Act at two road construction sites. The sites are Highway 54 in Osage Beach, and on Highway 67 between Coldwater and Silva

U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill today discussed with Missouri’s transportation chief and a top federal transportation official the importance of infrastructure investments to make the state’s roads and bridges safer, and spur economic growth.