New York, NY - March 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Developers of 88 Morningside, a premier new development located on the corner of Morningside Avenue and West 122nd Street, has partnered with BoConcept, Denmark’s cutting-edge furniture chain, to create a special model with a “media room” -- an extra room in a one-bedroom apartment that some might refer to as a “man cave.”

NEW YORK, NY - March 29, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Bed Bug Super Dogs, an independent, NESDCA-certified bed bug detection service for the real estate industry, has initiated a “Containment Inspection Program” for New York City residential property owners and managers, who now face increased regulations on the inspection and treatment of bed bugs.

New York, NY - March 29, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Halstead Property Development Marketing today announced the opening of a new model apartment at Windows on 123, a new residential development in Harlem.

New York, NY - March 29, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Kent M. Swig, President of Swig Equities, LLC, is pleased to announce that the firm has completed 10 leasing transactions in its FiDi (Financial District) commercial office portfolio thus far in 2011, totaling over 43,000 square feet.

NEW YORK, NY - March 28, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle is marketing a $30.5 million defaulted loan for sale. The loan, which is collateralized by 4,950-square-foot land development site at 276-280 Third Avenue in the Gramercy Park section of Manhattan, is scheduled to be sold at a foreclosure auction on March 30.

NEW YORK, NY - March 28, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle announced today that it has hired Wall Street veteran Kellogg Gaines to the firm’s Americas Capital Markets business as part of firm’s overall expansion of its dedicated Real Estate Investment Banking expertise. Gaines joins as a Managing Director in the New York office where he will work with Co-Heads and Executive Managing Directors Tom Fish, Tom Melody and Mike Melody to lead the firm’s debt and equity sourcing and loan origination business in the New York region.

New York, NY - March 25, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Bronx apartment building workers late Thursday ratified a four-year agreement that provides a 6% wage increase over the life of the contract, fully employer-paid family health care coverage, pensions and protects all other benefits.

NEW YORK, NY - March 25, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle today announced Eric Herlands, Jason Gold, Joseph Sitt and Stephen Shapiro have joined the firm in the last several months as part of the firm’s New York City Capital Markets business as its investment sales team expands. The foursome is working under the direction of Vice Chairmen Richard Baxter, Jon Caplan, Ron Cohen and Scott Latham. Eric Herlands joins the firm as a Senior Vice President, while Jason Gold, Joseph Sitt and Stephen Shapiro each take on the role of Vice President.

HAVERSTRAW, NY - March 24, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) --– Village, County and State officials joined today with representatives from The Community Preservation Corporation (CPC), the Rockland Housing Action Coalition (RHAC) and invited guests to celebrate the completion of Murphy Manor Apartments, the first quality-built affordable housing for families in Haverstraw.

March 23, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer and Congressman Maurice Hinchey announced their new efforts to ensure that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) does not force Southern Tier homeowners to spend thousands of dollars on unnecessary flood insurance through flawed and inaccurate maps that fail to reflect communities’ efforts and infrastructure to mitigate potential flooding.

NEW YORK, NY - March 23, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle has completed a 20,362-square-foot renewal transaction for Peppercom Inc. at 470 Park Avenue South. The strategic communications agency signed a 15-year lease renewal at the Class A, 290,000-square-foot building.

NEW YORK, NY - March 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Halstead Property Development Marketing and RGS Holdings, LLC, in conjunction with Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group and JP Morgan Chase Community Development, today announced that 51% of units are now closed or under contract at 2280 FDB, a 12-story, 89-unit residential development located in the heart of Harlem on Fredrick Douglass Boulevard between 122nd and 123rd Streets.

NEW YORK, NY - March 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle has completed a sublease transaction for Fred Alger Management Inc. at 360 Park Avenue South with Reed Elsevier. Alger, a premier investment management firm, signed a 10-year sublease for 46,000 square feet at the 442,800-square-foot, Class A office building

New York, NY - March 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Azure, the premier new residential building on the Upper East Side, today announced the release of the Tower Residences featuring corner residences with floor-to-ceiling windows and dramatic river and city views.

New York, NY - March 16, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Halstead Property Development Marketing and West 147th Street Associates LLC today announced that 60% of the units are closed or under contract at PS90, a premier residential development in Harlem.

Bronx, NY - March 15, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- 32BJ and the Bronx Realty Advisory Board (BRAB) reached a tentative four-year agreement this evening for more than 3,000 apartment building workers that provides annual wage increases while maintaining employer-paid family health care and secured pension benefits. The agreement narrowly averted a strike, which would have affected 250,000 Bronx residents throughout the borough including Riverdale and the South Bronx.

New York, NY - March 15, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Skyline Properties is pleased to announce the opening of its new midtown Manhattan location. Our firm’s objective is to provide real estate solutions to the most prominent institutional and private property owners, individual investors and developers in the Manhattan area.

MANHATTAN, NY - March 15, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The renaissance of Harlem’s Frederick Douglas Boulevard corridor is on full display at Apex Condominiums where 20% of the new residences have already been sold, according to owner/developer RCG Longview and The Marketing Directors, Inc., the property’s exclusive sales and marketing agent

NEW YORK, NY - March 11, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- After two years of steady new development deliveries and increasing sublease options, supply dynamics have stabilized, rents have bottomed out and landlords have begun to scale back tenant improvement allowances at top office properties across the U.S. and Canada, according to the first-ever North American Skyline Review from Jones Lang LaSalle. As a result of these supply-demand dynamics, investor interest for this type of product has heated up, causing activity and pricing to jump and yields to compress.

New York, NY - March 11, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. will hold a press conference to call for fair negotiations between the Bronx Realty Advisory Board (BRAB) and Local 32BJ, the union that represents over 3,000 Bronx apartment building workers at over 1,000 residential buildings in the Bronx.

New York, NY - March 11, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- With a potential strike less than a week away, hundreds of apartment building workers, along with elected officials and community and union supporters, rallied today in the Bronx to call on the Bronx Realty Advisory Board (BRAB), an industry association representing building owners, to sign a fair agreement before their contract expires at 12:01 A.M. on March 15th.

New York, NY - March 9, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- With a potential strike less than a week away, apartment building workers will march and rally in the Bronx to call on the Bronx Realty Advisory Board (BRAB), an industry association representing building owners, to sign a fair agreement before their contract expires at 12:01 A.M. on March 15th

New York, NY - March 9, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer today urged the owner of Parkview Apartments in Flatbush, Brooklyn, to renew his Section 8 project based housing contract with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) or sell this property to a preservation buyer committed to maintaining the building’s affordability.

NEW YORK, NY - March 9, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle has been selected by Shorenstein Realty Services LP as exclusive leasing agent for 850 Third Avenue, also known as the Discovery Building. The company will be responsible for commercial leasing and marketing efforts at the 613,664-square-foot, Class A office building.

New York, NY - March 8, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Savanna, a New York-based real estate private equity and asset management firm, today announced that Odyssey Financial Technologies has signed a 10-year lease for 7,500 square feet of commercial office space at 5 Hanover Square in Manhattan’s Financial District. The asking rents in the building start in the low $30’s per square foot. The company, a global banking software solutions provider, will occupy part of the 20th floor of the 333,000-square-foot, 25-story building, which is currently undergoing a comprehensive capital improvement plan.