TARRYTOWN—A record crowd of approximately 1,500 members and affiliates attended the 102nd Annual Meeting and Member’s Day of the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors held on Oct. 29 at the Doubletree Hotel in Tarrytown. During the association business portion of the program, HGAR membership elected the 2019 slate of HGAR directors that will be headed…
Read MoreWASHINGTON—Single female buyers continue to be a powerful force in the market, while low inventory, rising interest rates and increasing home prices are holding back first-time buyers despite notable interest in buying a home. These factoids were part of the National Association of Realtors’ 2018 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers report released on Oct.…
Read MoreOn Monday, Oct. 29th the Westchester County Board of Legislators finally held a public hearing on the co-op disclosure bill. Realtor members of the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors spoke in favor of the compromise bill. The bill calls for a 15-day time period in which a board must notify an applicant they received the…
Read MoreRYE BROOK—Houlihan Lawrence released a report on Oct. 18 that examined in depth the impacts of the Great Recession on the housing market in Westchester County, the Hudson Valley and Fairfield County, CT. In the introduction to its overall findings, Houlihan Lawrence described how the Great Recession changed the New York City suburban real estate…
Read MoreWASHINGTON—U.S. existing-home sales declined more than 3% in September after a month of stagnation in August, according to the National Association of Realtors. All four major regions saw no gain in sales activity in September. Existing sales in the Northeast fell nearly 3% in September as compared to September 2017. Total existing-home sales, https://www.nar.realtor/existing-home-sales, which…
Read MoreHARRISON—John Verni and Chris Verni, partners in Verco Properties, recently broke ground on their latest project, the Harrison Playhouse Lofts in Downtown Harrison. “The Verni brothers look forward to jump starting the rebirth of Downtown Harrison as the next great destination in Westchester County,” said John Verni. In attendance were Harrison Mayor Ron Belmont, New…
Read MoreNEW 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…
Read MoreWHITE 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…
Read MoreNEW WINDSOR—The Orange County Industrial Development Agency had two major announcements at its Oct. 11th board meeting: Robert T. Armistead will retire as chairman on Nov. 1, and The Accelerator, a certified New York State incubator focused on bringing manufacturing back to the mid-Hudson Valley, is projected to create more than 100 jobs by the…
Read MoreThe Bronx is booming! Real Estate In-Depth talked with local real estate experts Sarah Jones-Maturo, president, RM Friedland and Kathy Zamechansky, president, KZA Realty Group, who recently announced a new alliance, to find out why investment has been picking up in the borough. Real Estate In-Depth: What main factors contribute to the borough's commercial property boom?…
Read MoreAnyone who has ever ventured across the City Island Bridge in the Bronx knows that a quaint little seaside community awaits on the other side. A world of seafood restaurants, marinas and boutiques line the 1.5 mile-long island located at the western end of Long Island Sound. City Island was once inhabited by the Siwanoy…
Read MoreThe Bronx is Setting Records for Business, Job Growth For those old enough to remember, the images of the Bronx in the 1970s and 1980s that evoked abject poverty, neglect, and rampant crime are hard to erase. While it took decades to overcome, those days are long gone and new images are now coming to…
Read MoreEditor’s Note: When Real Estate In-Depth began planning its first special section on The Bronx, the official newspaper of the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors turned to perhaps the borough’s chief cheerleader Irene Guanill to provide a market report on its emerging neighborhoods. North, South, East and West and all the neighborhoods in between make…
Read MoreELMSFORD—The Westchester County Historical Society announced recently it has published the first comprehensive history of Westchester County in more than 35 years. Written by Field Horne, printed by Rose Press in Mount Vernon, designed by Christina Wong, and edited by Elizabeth G. Fuller, Katherine M. Hite, Patrick Raftery, and Gray Williams, the 257-page publication entitled…
Read MoreWHITE 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…
Read MoreWHITE 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…
Read MoreNEW ROCHELLE— Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Sept. 27 that New Rochelle's Lincoln Avenue Corridor will receive $10 million in funding as the Mid-Hudson region’s winner of the third round of the state’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative competition. "New Rochelle's Lincoln Avenue Corridor is an area ripe with potential to appeal to a new generation of residents,…
Read MoreGOSHEN—The Hudson Valley Economic Development Corp. and the Westchester County Association announced on Oct. 8 the launch of what they term as a “strategic partnership to grow specific industry sectors such as healthcare and real estate, expand on each other’s workforce development initiatives and close the digital divide through programs that promote gigabit-speed broadband connectivity.”…
Read MoreAt the recent NYSAR Fall Business Meetings held at the Turning Stone Resort/Casino in Verona, NY, HGAR’s Dorothy Botsoe was inducted into the RPAC Hall of Fame. Pictured with Botsoe (right) are from left, RPAC Hall inductee Liz English of the Long Island Board of Realtors and NYSAR President Christine “C.J.” DelVecchio. At the conference…
Read MoreWHITE 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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