ALBANY - The New York State Department of Tax and Finance has published a form for distribution to new homeowners that provides guidance on the new STAR tax credit program, the New York State Association of Realtors reported on June 7. Homeowners who purchased their current home prior to May 1, 2014 and already receive…
Read MoreSLEEPY HOLLOW—In what Village of Sleepy Hollow Mayor Ken Wray described as simply “a defining moment for our village, a real turning point” and a break with its industrial past, the developers of The Edge-on-Hudson, a planned more than $1-billion mixed-use development, broke ground on the former site of the General Motors assembly plant here.…
Read MoreWHITE PLAINS—Despite a blistering rebuke of the actions by the White Plains Common Council over what has been a five-year long approval process, the $60-million French American School of New York development project here is still nowhere near breaking ground. New York State Supreme Court Judge Joan Lefkowitz in her recent ruling described the project…
Read MoreMark Your Calendar MOHEGAN LAKE—A.S.A.P. Mortgage Corp. is holding an event on Monday, May 23 at the Roma Grill restaurant in Mohegan Lake from 6:30 P.M. - 8:30 P.M to honor military personnel and veterans. The event to be held at 3131 East Main St. in Mohegan Lake is free for all veterans and military…
Read MoreHudson Gateway Association of REALTORS® As we celebrate the 48th anniversary of the federal Fair Housing Act and the progress that has been made, sadly, we must recognize that after nearly five decades illegal discrimination in housing is a crime that still exists today. The Hudson Gateway Association of REALTORS® (HGAR) applauds Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s…
Read MoreNEW WINDSOR—The developer of a major warehouse distribution project in the Town of Newburgh will have to wait until next month to possibly secure millions of dollars in incentives for its $40-million facility that will include anchor tenant AmerisourceBergen. The Orange County Industrial Development Agency delayed two votes on granting incentives to the major distribution…
Read MoreWHITE PLAINS—The Hudson Valley home sales market in the first quarter continued its upward trajectory, with increased sales throughout the four county region. However, the market has yet to truly become a seller’s market since sale prices were flat or even decreased in the four county HGAR region. A majority of all housing categories (single…
Read MoreWestchester, Putnam, Rockland and Orange Counties, New York Editor’s Note: The following is the full text version of the 2016 First Quarter Residential Real Estate Sales Report for Westchester, Putnam, Rockland and Orange Counties, New York released today by the Hudson Gateway Multiple Listing Service, Inc. WHITE PLAINS - Realtors operating in the four-county lower…
Read MoreALBANY—New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state legislative leaders announced on March 31 that they had agreed on a $147-billion budget for Fiscal Year 2016-2017 that includes a phased in $15-minimum wage in portions of the state, paid family leave and a middle-class tax cut. The budget holds growth in state spending to 2% for…
Read MoreWHITE PLAINS—Veteran real estate investor and developer Robert Weisz says Westchester County should benefit from the heady New York City office market in 2016. Weisz, principal of the RPW Group of Rye Brook, hosted approximately 40 commercial brokers at a meeting of the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors’ Commercial Investment Division at his 1133 Westchester…
Read MoreNEWBURGH—Here’s a head scratcher, considering the robust commercial real estate market in the US and specifically in the Hudson Valley. A long-delayed, but much anticipated retail project here is on hold, a victim of the changing retail investments market, the ownership tells Real Estate In-Depth exclusively. The $250-million Loop-Hudson Valley project, which had leased more…
Read MoreCHAPPAQUA—A storyline that included a bankruptcy that changed everything, false hopes, staunch opposition, failed votes, litigation and in the end finally compromise ended with the groundbreaking of the controversial Chappaqua Crossing mixed-use project here. The approval process took 11 years to finish to get to the point where shovels went in the ground earlier this…
Read MoreHealth Care is the Rx for Hudson Valley Economy WHITE PLAINS—The healthcare sector continues to drive economic growth in Westchester County. Recent projects announced or under construction in the Hudson Valley put the healthcare and bioscience sector well in excess of $1 billion in new projects. On Wednesday, March 2, a plan to build…
Read MoreNEWBURGH—A long-delayed, but much anticipated retail project here is on hold, a victim of the changing retail investments market, the ownership tells Real Estate In-Depth exclusively. The $250-million Loop-Hudson Valley project, which had leased more than 80% of the planned 650,000-square-foot to 700,000-square-foot project to be built on a 120-acre parcel at the junction of…
Read MoreWHITE PLAINS—The healthcare sector continues to drive economic growth in Westchester County. On Wednesday, March 2, a plan to build a $230-million Ambulatory Care Pavilion adjacent to the existing Westchester Medical Center was approved by the Westchester County Local Development Corp. It is the LDC’s largest deal since its official formation in April 2013. The…
Read MoreHGAR to Move HQ Offices in April WHITE PLAINS—While the talk of the real estate industry in the Hudson Valley has been the emergence of the multifamily sector as an economic engine driving growth in the Hudson Valley economy, in early 2016 it has been the retail sector that has grabbed the major headlines with…
Read MoreTARRYTOWN—The multi-family construction boom, which has been going on in earnest in many U.S. gateway cities, such as New York City, Boston, Washington, DC, and San Francisco to name a few, is finally hitting the suburbs and major cities in Westchester County are now beginning to take advantage of the investment community’s attraction to rental…
Read MoreWHITE PLAINS—In what can only be described as “saving the best for last,” Hudson Valley commercial real estate brokers predicted the commercial markets will fare very well this year, fueled by increased tenant demand and surging health care and biotech sectors. The roundtable discussion presented by the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors’ Commercial Investment Division…
Read MoreNEW ROCHELLE—It appears that a major development proposal—the first project to come before the city since a far-reaching rezoning of the downtown district was approved by the City Council in December—will come before the city in the near future. While details are sketchy, a mixed-use high-rise development project is in the works in Downtown New…
Read MoreNEW CITY—In his 2016 State of the County address delivered on Feb. 16, Rockland County Executive Ed Day drove home the progress that has been made since his administration took office when the county was on the brink of financial default. "Because of our ability to make difficult choices, we have overcome complicated problems with…
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