YONKERS—Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano announced on March 23 the appointment of Lynette Thomas-Braggs as the City of Yonkers first-ever female City Assessor. Thomas-Braggs has worked for the city for more than 20 years, most recently serving as a Senior Real Property Appraiser in the City of Yonkers Assessment Department. Thomas-Braggs fills a vacancy left by…
Read MoreALBANY—The average bonus paid to employees in New York City’s securities industry for 2021 grew to $257,500, a 20% jump over the previous year’s record high, according to annual estimates released on Wednesday by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. The estimated bonuses paid out on Wall Street are higher than the city’s most…
Read MoreWASHINGTON—The share of millennial home buyers increased significantly over the past year. They are also the most likely generation to use the Internet to find the home they ultimately purchase and most likely to use a real estate agent, according to a report released by the National Association of Realtors on March 23. The 2022…
Read MoreOSSINING—The Village of Ossining announced on March 21 it had issued a request for proposal (RFP) from a qualified developer for the adaptive reuse of a National Register-listed historic building built in 1908, which sits on a village-owned parcel located at 200 Main St., located at the intersection of Main Street and New York State…
Read MoreWASHINGTON—Existing-home sales dipped in February, continuing a seesawing pattern of gains and declines over the last few months, according to the National Association of Realtors. Each of the four major U.S. regions saw sales fall on a month-over-month basis in February. Sales activity year-over-year was also down overall, though the South experienced an increase while…
Read MoreTOWN OF WALLKILL—Near a busy overpass for Route 17, state and local government leaders joined business and building trades representatives to press New York State to move forward with necessary environmental studies that will lead to what they say is the long-overdue expansion of Route 17 in Orange and Sullivan counties. The March 10th rally…
Read MoreWASHINGTON—The National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals released the 12th publication of its annual State of Hispanic Homeownership Report on March 16 on the final day of NAHREP’s National Convention & Housing Policy Summit in Washington D.C. The report found that in 2021, the Hispanic homeownership rate increased to 48.4%, consistent with the trendline…
Read MoreNEW YORK—SL Green Realty Corp. announced on March 15 it had signed a 16-year, 328,000-square foot lease with International Business Machines Corp. at its One Madison Ave. tower building currently under construction. The lease covers portions of floors two and seven and the entire eighth through 10th floors and a portion of the ground floor…
Read MoreTARRYTOWN—One of the most recognizable hotel properties in Westchester County—the Westchester Marriott—has changed hands in a $40-million transaction. New York City-based Taconic Capital Advisors, HEI Hotels & Resorts of Norwalk, CT partnered to acquire the Westchester Marriott, a 444-key hotel in Tarrytown, from Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp. of New York City for $40 million.…
Read MoreRYE—While the transaction comes with few details at the moment, the New York Blood Center has confirmed reports in the Westchester County commercial brokerage sector that it recently signed a lease for 187,181 square feet at 601 Midland Ave. in Rye. The deal, which was finalized in the fourth quarter of 2021, was the largest…
Read MoreNEW ROCHELLE—A longtime city official, Charles B. Strome III, who has served as New Rochelle City Manager for the past two decades, will retire at the end of this year, the city announced on March 9. Strome announced his retirement to the City Council at its March 8 meeting and will remain with the city…
Read MoreNEW YORK—Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices New England/Westchester/New York/Hudson Valley Properties announced on March 9 that the company will begin operating as Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices (BHHS) New England/New York/Hudson Valley Properties, effective immediately. The firm's Westchester offices servicing Eastchester, Larchmont, Rye, Scarsdale and surrounding towns, will now be known as Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices New York Properties in…
Read MoreWASHINGTON—Homeownership is widely recognized as the leading source of net worth among families. Housing wealth itself is primarily achieved by price appreciation gains, and the nation has seen home prices accelerate at a record pace during the course of the last decade, according to a National Association of Realtors study released on March 9. The…
Read MoreWHITE PLAINS—NewYork-Presbyterian has acquired the WestPark office complex at 1111-1129 Westchester Ave. here and has plans to convert the nearly 367,000 square feet of office space on the 25-acre property into a new state-of-the-art, multi-specialty ambulatory care facility. Multiple published reports put the purchase price at $83.5 million, citing recently filed land records with the…
Read MoreWHITE PLAINS—The Westchester County Office of Economic Development is now accepting applications for the 2022 Westchester County Business FIRST grant program. This year’s grant program will provide up to $17 million to support nonprofits and religious organizations facing challenges as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. Applications were being accepted online starting on March 4…
Read MoreRIDGEFIELD, CT—Houlihan Lawrence reports it has continued its expansion in Connecticut with the acquisition of Neumann Real Estate, a brokerage firm with operations in Ridgefield and New Fairfield in Fairfield County, CT. The deal marks the second transaction by Rye Brook-based Houlihan Lawrence in 2022 to expand its presence in Connecticut. In January, the company…
Read MoreNEW ROCHELLE—BRP Companies, the Urban Investment Group within Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Goldman Sachs), New York State Homes and Community Renewal, Westchester County, Interfaith Dwellings Corporation, Merchants Bank of Indiana, Wells Fargo, and Fannie Mae announced on Feb. 28 the closing of $294 million in construction financing for the 477-unit, mixed-use development located at 500…
Read MoreMOUNT KISCO—Veteran real estate broker and former Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors President Dorothy Botsoe will be opening the Hudson Valley’s first Weichert Realtors Signature Properties agency at 275 East Main St. in Mount Kisco this month. The new location will service home buyers and sellers in Westchester and Putnam counties, as well as the…
Read MoreWHITE PLAINS—Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. believes work could begin as early as this April on its $1.394-billion “Loop Road” expansion project in the Town of Greenburgh if the company secures necessary incentives from the Westchester County Industrial Development Agency and other sources totaling approximately $172.9 million and another $100 million in other public incentives. The Tarrytown-based company’s…
Read MoreA tireless civil rights and housing rights activist, Nick Beilenson passed away on Feb. 22 at the age of 85 due to complications from COVID-19. The White Plains resident founded Westchester Residential Opportunities in 1968 at the height of the civil rights movement. He served as WRO’s first executive director and served on the board…
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