R-house enters Syracuse market

BALDWINSVILLE - Peter F. Hunt, president and chief executive officer of Hunt Real Estate Corporation in Buffalo, has created a new company - called r-house ERA - in Central New York.

Hunt is the third-generation member of his family to head the corporation,

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R-house ERA currently operates two offices in Central New York. Thirteen people work at its first offlice, a 2,500-square-foot location at 8395 Oswego Road in Baldwinsville, which opened Jan. 10. The company opened a temporary office in Fayetteville in April, located in the Town Centre. R-house currently employs 17 people there. A new, 5,000-square-foot office will open in August or September and be part of a 20,000-square-foot building that also will include COR Development's offices and three retailers, according to Hunt.

The Hunt family started the original company in Buffalo in 1911 and operated only in that city until about three years ago, when they expanded to Rochester. When the company moved into Rochester, it acquired six companies five in the last 12 months and one in the previous year. The most recent acquisition by r-house (as it also is known in Rochester) was Prudential Rochester Realty. With the deal, Hunt has more than 200 agents in the Greater Rochester market, spread among eight offices, according to Buffalo Business First. Offices in Buffalo still go by the Hunt Real Estate name. The corporation now operates 26 offices in the three Empire State cities.