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HGAR and BMNAR co-host new rent control regulations seminar

It was standing-room only in the Hutchinson Metro Center August 7th as the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors (HGAR) and the Bronx-Manhattan North Association of Realtors (BMNAR) presented “The New Rent Laws – What Happens Now.” Panelists included: Moderator John Barrett, president, Commercial & Investment Division at HGAR; Eliot Cherson, senior and founding partner at Hertz, Cherson […]

John Barrett Moderates Panel of Experts that Decry Rent Laws’ ‘Disastrous’ Impacts

More than 100 commercial and residential real estate professionals heard a rather sobering outlook of what the recently enacted new rent control regulations enacted by the State Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo will have on the region’s real estate market. HGAR CID President John Barrett, managing director, investment sales, RM Friedland, […]

RM Friedland Announces New Properties to be Sold by Team Lala

RM Friedland announced that Marco Lala has been retained to sell the following properties: a free marketing apartment building located in the Nodine Hill section of Yonkers, NY on the west side of Van Cortlandt Park Avenue, an apartment building with preserved original Art Deco, a brick and stucco mixed-use building at 110 Beekman Avenue, […]

Af­ter 107 Years, The “Y” Will Be Leav­ing 62 Main Street

For more than a cen­tury, the Tar­ry­town Y has been op­er­at­ing on south Main Street, where over the years it has worked to keep up with chang­ing times–new trends in fit­ness, new de­mands for child care, which has be­come one of its largest pro­grams. But to con­tinue to stay abreast of chang­ing com­mu­nity needs, the […]

Rent Reform Has ‘Thrown A Wrench’ In Goals of East Harlem Rezoning

The commercial real estate industry has slammed New York’s new rent regulation law for months now — dating back to before a bill had even been proposed — claiming the laws will do nothing but worsen the city’s housing affordability problems. Harlem brokers and developers think the ramifications will also undermine the affordability goals of […]

Team Lala of RM Friedland brokers $30.5 million portfolio sale

According to RM Friedland, Team Lala, led by senior vice president Marco Lala, has negotiated the sale of a nine building portfolio for $30.5 million. With 107 units totaling 91,395 s/f, the deal encompasses two clusters of multifamily buildings at West 141st St.: 606, 610, 614 and 622 Saint Nicholas Ave. and 129, 133, 135, […]