2011 Brooklyn Individual Salesperson of the Year: Deborah Rieders (l-r. -Maurice Singer, Yael Epstein, Deborah Rieders, Corcoran CEO Pamela Liebman, Sarah Shuken)

The Corcoran Group, New York’s largest residential real estate firm, hosted its annual awards ceremony Tuesday, February 7, 2012.

More than 800 Corcoran agents and employees attended the ceremony which was… Read more...

DOUG HEDDINGS

The Heddings Property Group LLC has announced plans to hire additional agents throughout 2012 in its Manhattan and Hamptons offices, as well as its newly opened Greenwich, CT, Westchester and Rockland County locations.

The firm will also add an office manager to oversee administrative functions in the Manhattan office and another in… Read more...

Today’s brokers must be in-the-know with the ever-changing tech industry — or they risk becoming obsolete in the eyes of their digital clients.
“Understanding them and having a resume that you’ve worked with similar companies in the past — they dig that,” said Jason Schwartzenberg, a corporate managing director at real estate services firm Studley.
Getting on the right side of one of the fastest growing office space users in the country seems like a wise move in a market where traditional New York tenants, such the financial sector, are contracting. Tech-driven firms accounted for 28% of Manhattan leasing in 2011, up from 18% the previous year and helped drive down vacancy rates in midtown south to the lowest in the country. Read more...

ADAM MERMELSTEIN

The Newark based real estate company TreeTop Development is staking a claim on the New York market with its acquisition last week of a four-property portfolio of mixed use buildings.

The company — which has owned and managed over 3,000 residential homes throughout New York and New Jersey — partnered… Read more...

Developer Douglas C. Steiner has unveiled plans for a new 50-story apartment building he promises will be “the best in Brooklyn.”

Located at 333 Schermerhorn Street, at the intersection of Third Avenue and Flatbush Avenue, The Hub will have 740 rental units as well as retail space and parking for over 250 vehicles.

A groundbreaking is slated for the Fourth Quarter of 2012. Read more...

Forest City Ratner is in talks to lease a 100,000 s/f factory space at the Brooklyn Navy Yards.

The facility would be the manufacturing hub for pre-fabricated modules the developer wants to use to build on the Atlantic Yards site in Brooklyn.

Speaking at the first annual Real Estate Weekly Women’s Forum, which took place at the McGraw Hill Auditorium last week, MaryAnne Gilmartin, executive vice president of Forest City Ratner in charge of the 22-acre project that includes the new Nets arena, said the company was excited to be pioneering the use of modular building technology. Read more...

Three hundred delegates turned out for the first annual REW Women’s Forum at the McGraw Hill Auditorium on Feb. 15. Read more...