Real Estate Weekly: 19970219

1. Giuliani addresses real estate lenders.
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani recently addressed commercial real estate lenders at the Real Estate Lenders Association Breakfast Meeting at the MetLife Building in Manhattan. Joining ...
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2. Competing residential firms unite to electronically exchange information.
A dramatic shift in the residential brokerage business is underway as 20 of Manhattan's top competing firms have joined together in a spirit of cooperation ...
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3. Architectural firm approaches 75th anniversary.
For more than seven decades, the New York architecture and interior design firm Greenfield.Sawicki.TarellaArchitects, P.C. (GSTA) has based a successful practice on the development of ...
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4. Manhattan hotel occupancy rises to record.
Fourth-quarter 1996 occupancy rates for Manhattan hotels increased 1.9 percent over the year-earlier period to a record 89.3 percent, according to information gathered by the ...
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5. Wall St. finances one-fourth of commercial mortgage market.
Wall Street houses, once only interested in aggregating loans in the secondary market for securitizations, are now direct lenders to real estate owners and, in ...
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6. Sheldon Good to auction 230 tri-state properties.
Citicorp Mortgage and Summit Bank of New Jersey and Pennsylvania have authorized Sheldon Good & Company International to conduct a two-day, multi-property auction of 230 ...
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7. Market is mixed bag for retailers.
"For the second year in a row, Manhattan retailers experienced a 'mixed bag' in 1996, according to Edward A. Friedman, executive managing director of Newmark ...
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8. Air rights needed for Rock West.
A plan to finally construct Rockefeller Center West is contingent upon the purchase of air rights from the new owners of the Center, sources say.
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9. Governor adds co-ops to tax plan.
Owner occupied co-ops have been added to Governor George Pataki's proposed school property tax relief program after outcries from New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, ...
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