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NAR Chief Economist Tells Realtors Not to Expect Recession in 2019, 2020

October 24, 2018

NEW YORK—With a market struggling with low inventory, higher mortgage rates and slower home sales, a packed room of Realtors at the Marriott Marquis hotel in Manhattan collectively sighed relief when NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun said he does not expect a national recession next year or in 2020. In fact, Yun also stated that…

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Toll Brothers Starts Construction on Housing Component at Former GM Plant Site

October 24, 2018

SLEEPY HOLLOW—By this time next year, the first tangible signs of what will be a $1-billion redevelopment of the former General Motors minivan assembly plant site here will be clear to see. While infrastructure work and demolition of the massive plant itself have been undertaken since the closure of the General Motors minivan assembly plant…

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Hudson Valley Home Prices Continue to Rise, While Sales Decline

October 17, 2018

WHITE PLAINS—Home sale prices were up sharply in the third quarter in the four-county market area of the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors, with the exception of Westchester County where sales prices were relatively flat as compared to a year earlier. Sales volume was off marginally throughout the region, with overall third quarter sales down…

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Home Sales Still Strong, Prices Rise in Most Hudson Valley Markets

October 10, 2018

WHITE PLAINS—Third quarter real estate sales in the lower Hudson Valley remained robust, although slightly lower than third quarter 2017 sales. While unit sales were generally lower in the Hudson Valley region served by the Hudson Gateway Multiple Listing Service, sale prices remained strong. With the exception of Westchester County, which experienced a one tenth…

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MA. Developer Withdraws $4.51M Offer To Buy Vacant Sain Building in New City

October 10, 2018

NEW CITY—A noticeably agitated Rockland County Executive Ed Day stood in front of the vacant Sain Building here on Oct. 9 and announced that National Development, the developer who had offered to pay $4.51 million to acquire the property and convert it into a senior residence, had withdrawn its purchase offer. National Development, a real…

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Latimer Appoints Gibbons as Director of Office of Economic Development

October 10, 2018

WHITE PLAINS— Westchester County Executive George Latimer has decided to hire from within county government’s ranks and appointed Bridget Gibbons as the new Director of the Office of Economic Development. Gibbons had served as the county’s Deputy Director of Economic Development since Latimer took office in January 2018. She was the guest speaker at the…

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NYC Developer Says Westchester Performing Better than Fairfield

October 4, 2018

WHITE PLAINS—Peter Duncan, president and CEO of New York City-development firm George Comfort & Sons, told more than 80 attendees of the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors Commercial Investment Division, that the firm is bullish on Westchester and is seeking to redevelop a number of properties in the county. The firm, recently acquired the former…

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Gov. Cuomo Announces $13 Billion JFK Improvement Plan

October 4, 2018

NEW YORK—Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Thursday the latest plan for a major expansion and improvements at John F. Kennedy International Airport, which is now projected to cost $13 billion. The governor announced the plan on Oct. 4 at the Association for a Better New York breakfast. The governor states that $12 billion of the…

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Controversial CPV Valley Plant in Orange County Goes Online

October 4, 2018

WAWAYANDA, NY—The controversial 680-megawatt CPV Valley Energy Center, owned by Competitive Power Ventures, is now operational. Competitive Power Ventures announced on Oct. 1 that the $900-million natural gas plant achieved commercial operation and was supplying enough electricity to power more than 600,000 average homes. The power plant, built by a joint venture of Skanska USA…

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New Multifamily Project in New Rochelle Breaks Ground

October 4, 2018

NEW ROCHELLE—YoungCraft, a locally-based real estate development company, held a groundbreaking ceremony on Oct. 3 at the future site of The Rockwell, a more than 160,000-square-foot mixed-use development at 583 North Ave. here. Robert Young and Phil Craft, principals of YoungCraft, were joined at the project site by New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson, City Manager…

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Historic Rehabilitation of Newburgh’s East End Apartments Completed

September 26, 2018

NEWBURGH—New York State Homes and Community Renewal Commissioner RuthAnne Visnauskas announced Sept. 25 the opening of a $15-million scattered-site project that renovated 15 abandoned properties to create 45 new affordable apartments in a four-block area of Newburgh’s East End. Called East End Apartments, state and city officials say the development is helping to revitalize the…

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Westchester County Put on ‘Significant Fiscal Stress’ List

September 26, 2018

ALBANY—Westchester County was among four counties statewide to be characterized as under “significant fiscal stress” according to a report released by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli on Tuesday. The State Comptroller’s Annual Fiscal Stress Monitoring System report designated 25 municipalities statewide as being fiscally stressed. Also making the significant fiscal stress list were Nassau…

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Plan Calls for Conversion of IBM Somers Campus to STEM School

September 21, 2018

SOMERS—A plan was presented to the Somers Town Board on Thursday evening that if approved would involve the adaptive reuse of the 1.2-million-square-foot former and now vacant IBM campus here into a STEM high school geared at attracting top students from across the country. Evergreen Ridge, LLC of Stamford, CT, headed by principal Tim DiScipio,…

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Northeast Existing-Home Sales Increased in August; Mixed Results in Other Regions

September 20, 2018

WASHINGTON—Existing-home sales remained steady in August after four straight months of decline, according to the National Association of Realtors. Sales gains in the Northeast and Midwest canceled out downturns in the South and West. A bright spot for the residential markets was in the Northeast, which saw its August existing-home sales rise 7.6% to an…

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Business Council Coalition Says Westchester Airport Future in Jeopardy

September 20, 2018

RYE BROOK—Concerned that the future of Westchester County Airport is in jeopardy, the Business Council of Westchester has launched the Coalition for Westchester Airport, consisting of a broad range of businesses, labor organizations, educators, non-profits and residents in support of what they term as one of the county’s most valuable assets. The coalition has come…

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HGAR, LIBOR Boards Sign Key Agreement To Create New Regional MLS Next Year

September 20, 2018

WHITE PLAINS—The Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors and the Long Island Board of Realtors have announced that their efforts to create a consolidated new regional Multiple Listing Service that would benefit approximately 40,000 subscribers had cleared a significant milestone. The two largest Realtor associations in New York State reported that their respective Boards of Directors…

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Orange County Housing Market Showing No Sign of Slowing Down

September 19, 2018

As the summer of 2018 comes to an end, the real estate market in Orange County is not showing any signs of slowing down. After the highs Orange County experienced in 2008, when the median sales price (half above and half below) for all homes was $300,000, we saw prices decrease for about eight years,…

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Health Quest, Marist College to Build New Medical School

September 13, 2018

POUGHKEEPSIE—Marist College and healthcare services provider Health Quest plan to build a $75-milllion medical school in in Dutchess County. A site for the new Marist Health Quest School of Medicine has not been finalized, but Marist and Health Quest state in their joint announcement on Sept. 12 that plans call for a building of approximately…

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Westchester’s Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Will Spend $800M to Expand Upstate

September 12, 2018

ALBANY—Tarrytown-based Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. is at it again, but this time in the Capital District. The state’s largest biotechnology company is planning to spend $800 million to expand its research and lab facilities upstate outside of Albany. The company’s capital plans were announced on Tuesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who reported that the state’s Empire…

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