New York, NY - January 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- New York City office cleaners ratified a four-year agreement with the Realty Advisory Board (RAB) on Tuesday that provides a 5.6% wage increase over the life of the contract and bonuses totaling $1,100.00. The agreement also maintains fully employer-paid family health care coverage.

Miami/Boca Raton, FL - January 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- CBRE announced this week the addition of four new leasing professionals to the firm’s South Florida operations. Maggie Guajardo Kurtz and Diana Parker join CBRE to provide office landlord and tenant representation services in Miami-Dade County. Michael Wilson and Owen Sagar, based in the Boca Raton office, will focus on servicing office property owners and occupiers in the Palm Beach County market.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - January 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Is economic recovery truly underway? Will industrial real estate keep its momentum? Is New Jersey winning the war for jobs? How are retail trends impacting other industry sectors, notably industrial? Those questions and more were on the table at NAIOP New Jersey’s 2012 Commercial Real Estate Forecast and Annual Meeting at the Sheraton Meadowlands.

Phoenix, AZ - January 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rex Parry, host of Business to Business Network Show, will host RE/MAX Generations’ Erik Johnson on 1100AM KFNX News-Talk Radio on Saturday, January 28th at 7 p.m. to discuss real estate and technology

Reston, VA - January 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Michael Zimmerman, Vice President of Calkain Realty Advisors, is the newest addition to Calkain Companies’ growing team of experienced net lease investment advisors. Zimmerman is a veteran net lease practitioner has successfully procured in excess of $325 million in transactions throughout Florida and the southeastern United States, resulting in numerous awards and recognition from within the net lease industry. Having successfully advised and represented merchant developers and private equity investors, Michael is seen as an authority on the asset class in which he specializes

Outer Banks, NC - January 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- It’s that time of the year again for Outer Bank real estate owners. With the 11th of February – the designated date for the 27th Annual Oyster Feast in Outer Banks, North Carolina – fast approaching, residents are pitching in and doing the best they can to make 2012’s sumptuous oyster festival more spectacular than ever.

Phoenix, AZ - January 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee & Associates Arizona Principals Mike McQuaid, Mike Garlick and Chris Krewson have come together to form the largest office brokerage team in the Lee & Associates Arizona’s office. Totaling more than 50 years of service in the Phoenix office market, the three Lee & Associates principals will draw upon a deep pool of experience to meet the needs of their clients.

Columbia, MO - January 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Last October, President Barack Obama had successfully held the dedication of a Washington D.C. national memorial dedicated to the late Martin Luther King, Jr. This 2012, one of the dedication’s organizers – who also happens to be an alumnus of the university – is slated to gift his old alma mater with a replica of the said memorial.

BROOKLYN, NY - January 25, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jade 8 (www.jade8condos.com), an exclusive collection of just eight “Green” condominiums in Brooklyn’s fashionable Gowanus neighborhood, has opened its doors to the public with one contract already signed.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – January 26, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — Following three consecutive months of gains, sales of newly built, single-family homes edged down 2.2 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 307,000 units in December, according to newly released figures from the U.S. Commerce Department. more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – January 26, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — Following three consecutive months of gains, sales of newly built, single-family homes edged down 2.2 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 307,000 units in December, according to newly released figures from the U.S. Commerce Department. more »

NEW YORK CITY, NY - January 26, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Three members of The Real Estate Network and Transactions (R.E.N.T.) have joined the group’s Board of Directors. And, for the first time, the organization has also designated two of its members as co-chairs. The two co-chairs are Scott Rutter of Citrin Cooperman & Company, LLP, the co-chair for finance, and Ed Sirlin, Group Director and Senior Vice President at Signature Bank, the co-chair for membership and guests. Mr. Rutter is a continuing member of the Board, whereas Mr. Sirlin becomes a new member of the Board for the first time.

Washington, DC - January 26, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-1), joined by Democratic Members of the California Congressional Delegation, today welcomed the President’s proposal from the State of the Union to provide responsible homeowners with the opportunity to refinance at historically low rates, but said this is only half of the equation

Baldwinsville, NY - January 26, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Syracuse NY realtors have lately been busy inviting other locals to join in the fun and get cold for a cause for The Big Chill, an event hosted by the Greater Baldwinsville Chamber of Commerce for the purpose of funding the Ronald McDonald House Charities of CNY as well as the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

January 26, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett today joined representatives of the County’s agriculture industry, County Council, Department of Economic Development (DED) and other invited industry and business guests to announce the Building Lot Termination (BLT) preservation easement acquisition of the 200-acre W. Drew Stabler/Sunny Ridge Farm, the Stabler family’s home farm in the Laytonsville/Damascus area. The BLT easement acquisition represents the first of three such anticipated easements to be settled under this fledgling program.

Report shows that fast-growing emerging cities will lead expansion to 50 cities by 2020

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND – January 26, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) – As world leaders gather to address global challenges at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, a new report by Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE:JLL) reveals that more than half of all global real estate investment resides in 30 cities.  A quarter of the total investment is in five top-tier cities: London, Tokyo, New York, Hong Kong and Paris. This is set to change by the turn of the decade, however, when newer destinations such as Beijing, Shanghai, Moscow and Sao Paulo will become serious contenders for real estate dollars. more »

New York, NY - January 26, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Keller Williams NYC (www.kwnyc.com), the Manhattan franchise of leading real estate firm Keller Williams Realty Inc., has announced the appointment of Jamie Knuckles to the Walt Frazier Team at Keller Williams NYC.

BRICK, N.J. - January 26, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- With the January acquisition of Barclay Arms in Atlantic City, N.J., private equity real estate group Tryko Partners, LLC, marked a 12-month period of aggressive growth that nearly doubled its multifamily portfolio and substantially grew its skilled nursing holdings. The Brick-based firm has added more than 1,800 residential units and 200 nursing home beds, with another 680 housing units under contract to close during the first quarter of 2012.

Washington, DC – January 26, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — The single tenant Office/Industrial market is highly competitive today, however, this competitiveness varies due to the nature of the tenant and the relevant market. High credit tenants in primary – especially urban – markets are among the highest in demand. According to CoStar the market for single tenant NNN investments is averaging 10,000 transactions a quarter. A majority of those were Retail spaces, Corporate and Regional HQ’s in Primary and Secondary Markets. Of these primary markets, none is more interesting than Washington DC. more »

Marks the Largest Growth Year for SVNI Since 2007

IRVINE, CA – January 26, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — Sperry Van Ness International, one of the fastest-growing commercial real estate brokerage franchisors in the nation, added 16 new franchises across the United States in 2011. The new franchises are part of Sperry Van Ness International’s national expansion program, which started in 2001 and has grown to more than 1,000 advisors and staff serving more than 150 markets today. more »