New York, NY - November 29, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Kent M. Swig, President of Swig Equities, LLC, is pleased to announce that Todd E. Korren has been promoted to Executive Vice President and Director of Commercial Leasing and Operations. Mr. Korren, a 26-year real estate veteran, previously served as Senior Vice President and will maintain his current role as Director of Commercial Leasing and Operations.

New York, NY - November 29, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Flatbush Gardens workers were locked-out by their employer Renaissance Equity Holdings this morning, effectively preventing them from performing their jobs and serving thousands of tenants at the massive complex. The employer’s action took place following the workers' refusal to accept a more than 30 percent cut in wages and cuts to benefits that would leave most workers without health care coverage. The contract, which expired in April, covers more than 70 porters and handymen who maintain the complex that is home to more than 10,000 New Yorkers.

MILFORD, CT - November 9, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Total Mortgage Services, LLC, a leading national mortgage lender and broker that offers some of the lowest mortgage rates available, announced today that it has received its state of New York Mortgage Banker License from the State of New York Banking Department.

New York, NY - November 8, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Azure (www.azureny.com), the new luxury residential building at 333 East 91st Street on the Upper East Side, is customizing a number of units to meet the growing demand for larger apartments from people who want to raise their children in Manhattan. In recent months, The DeMatteis Organizations has customized 14 units (11 percent of the building) for buyers in Azure, with an expectation of many more to come.

New York, NY - November 5, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- SL Green Realty Corp. (NYSE: SLG), New York City's largest owner of commercial office properties, today announced the appointment of James E. Mead to be the Company's Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective December 1, 2010. He succeeds Gregory Hughes, who is leaving at the end of his current contract on November 30, 2010 to pursue other professional interests

New York, N.Y. - November 4, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Halstead Property Development Marketing today announced that they have signed on to be the exclusive sales and marketing representatives for three prominent new developments, and have also launched sales at an additional five developments in the last four weeks

New York, N.Y. - October 28, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Halstead Property Development Marketing today announced it has signed on as the new, exclusive sales and marketing firm for Windows on 123, a premier luxury condominium development in Harlem

NEW YORK, NY - October 28, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Bracha Group, a luxury real estate group of Prudential Elliman in New York City, sold a three-bedroom, three and half bath condominium at 15 Central Park West, one of Manhattan’s newest premier parkside dwellings last Thursday, October 7, 2010.

New York, NY - October 26, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- SL Green Realty Corp. (NYSE: SLG), New York City's largest owner of commercial office properties, owning more than 20 million square feet of office space in Manhattan, and The Moinian Group, headed by developer Joseph Moinian, today announced they have reached an agreement to recapitalize Three Columbus Circle - a midtown Manhattan office tower currently in the final stages of a major redevelopment. The recapitalization includes a standby mortgage commitment and a potential future investment by SL Green that will make funds available for the completion of the redevelopment and lease-up of the property

New York, NY - October 26, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- “If we are in a recovery, which it appears we are, I must note that this has been from the bottom up versus the top down. Happily, we seem to have stabilized and so the news is good for New York City,” stated Elizabeth Stribling, president of Stribling & Associates. The recently published Stribling State of the Market report cites a number of important market observations

New York, NY - October 26, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Another milestone was reached this year with the commemoration of the decade-long re-tenanting of historic 48 Wall Street, a 324,000 square foot, 34-story office building built in 1927 that was fully restored to its original grandeur. A rededication of the building celebrating its landmark status was previously held in 2002 with an unveiling of a plaque just below the original cornerstone dating back to 1784 from the first building that stood at 48 Wall Street. The ceremony marking that occasion was held in the building’s two-story Grand Banking Hall which served as the main banking area for the Bank of New York. The Landmarks Preservation Commission initially dedicated the building as a New York City landmark in October 1998, and the plaque seen today marks that dedication. Today, The Grand Banking Hall houses the Museum of American Finance, a member of the Smithsonian Affiliation Program.

NEW YORK, NY - October 21, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York today presented an update on the region’s economic conditions, noting a varied pace of recovery—with New York City and parts of New York State recovering more rapidly than many other parts of the nation, and New Jersey and Puerto Rico lagging the nation

New York, NY - October 19, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- The NYS Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, unanimously affirmed the dismissal of all claims made by EHARM in their fight against the East Harlem M/E/C LLC. East 125th Street project; despite the misuse of municipal might, power, and procedure to take private, productive commercial property and hand it over to a secretly selected development group, beset by trouble.

New York, NY - October 19, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Azure (www.azureny.com), the spacious 34-story luxury residential building at 333 East 91st Street at First Avenue on the Upper East Side, has arranged a new financing facility of $145.1 million from HSBC and its participating lenders.

New York, NY - October 12, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Halstead Property Development Marketing today announced they will showcase the top Brooklyn and Manhattan developments in a joint open house during the weekend of October 16, 2010.

New York, NY - October 5, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Strategic Development and Construction Group and Lemle & Wolff, Inc., developers of Beacon Towers, a new cooperative residential development in Harlem, today announced a price reduction on most remaining available homes.

NEW YORK, NY - October 1, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Halstead Property Development Marketing today announced that Columbia Commons, a newly constructed residential development in Brooklyn’s growing Columbia Street Waterfront District, is now just one deal away from being 50% sold just four months after sales started

EUGENE, OR - September 29, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Westchester-Putnam MLS (WPMLS) listings just became easier to search for, on the new IDX enabled website of real estate professional Chirag Shah. IDX, Inc. has delivered New York home seekers with a unique and comprehensive online property search experience. Shah and his clients can rest assured that his website hosts the best home search tools available online. Never before have WPMLS listings been simpler to display or search through than on the dynamic IDX synced website Shah hosts

NEW YORK, NY - September 24, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Real estate brokers all over New York can now list and sell properties throughout the entire state with a new, web-based multiple listing service. CoBroke MLS, a computerized database designed for real estate agents to share listing information with other professionals within its network, helps brokers avoid referral fees and fines. It also opens up a wide range of opportunities for agents to list and sell properties beyond the limitations of local multiple listing services.

Albany, NY - September 23, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Statewide sales of existing single-family homes in New York State increased in August from July by 3.7 percent, but remained 30-percent below the August 2009 total, according to the preliminary single-family sales data accumulated by the New York State Association of REALTORS.

EUGENE, OR - September 15, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- New York Realtor Stephen Grifferty has adopted the dynamic IDX, Inc. IDX Broker software for his real estate website, syncing thousands of Capitol Region MLS (CRMLS) property listings with his page. The tools available on the search page of Grifferty give home seekers around Schenectady more options that ever when looking for a home online. His website should be the first stop for anyone considering purchasing a property in upstate New York.

September 13, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mr. D’Amanda focuses his practice on commercial real estate, including development and land use, mortgage and asset lending, foreclosures and workouts, and succession planning for family land holdings. Mr. D’Amanda was drawn to the firm because of the depth of Nixon Peabody’s real estate practice firmwide and the reputation of that group in the Rochester community and throughout Upstate New York.

New York, NY - August 31, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- +aRt, a new condominium development in the heart of West Chelsea’s art district, Chashama, an organization that transforms donated retail storefronts in New York City into art exhibitions, and Cannery Works, a non-profit arts catalyst in support of debut projects, have partnered to present a new two-part art exhibition series this fall, beginning with Jason Covert’s CARNIVORA which opens to the public on September 16.

Albany, NY - August 24, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Statewide sales of existing single-family homes in New York State fell by 50 percent in July compared to the record-setting June total, which was bolstered by buyers who closed before the then-June 30 federal homebuyer tax credit deadline.

New York, NY- August 11, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Strategic Development and Construction Group and Lemle & Wolff, Inc. developers of Beacon Towers, a new cooperative residential development in Harlem, today announced that they are offering a cash incentive to buyer’s agents whose clients close on units at Beacon Towers. Brokers representing buyers who successfully purchase and close at Beacon Towers will now receive a $1,000 bonus paid for their first closing, $2,500 for their second closing and $3,500 for their third closing.