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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - June 23, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Commercial real estate brokerage veteran Joseph Rosario has re-joined Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. in East Rutherford as a senior director. For more than three decades, he has specialized in consulting and transaction services in the New Jersey and metropolitan New York markets; this included nine years at Cushman & Wakefield in the 1970s and 1980s.

New York, NY - June 23, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Keller Williams NYC (www.kwnyc.com), the Manhattan franchise of leading real estate firm Keller Williams Realty Inc., recently appointed Parish Pradhan as a licensed sales agent.

Torrance, CA - June 23, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee & Associates, the nation’s largest broker-owned commercial brokerage firm, has closed on the $2 million sale of a 21,455-square-foot industrial park located at 1488 E. Mission Blvd., in Pomona, Calif.

LOS ANGELES, CA - June 23, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Charles Dunn Company, one of the largest full-service regional real estate firms in the Western United States, has completed the $2,475,000 sale of a 5,550 square foot office building located at 417 S. Beverly Dr. in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Irvine, CA - June 23, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Faris Lee Investments, the nation’s largest retail investment advisory firm, has completed the $16.5 million sale of Westchester Place, a two-story 50,861-square-foot retail center located at 8820-8844 South Sepulveda Blvd. in Los Angeles. Built in 2007 and situated on 1.71 acres, tenants include: Bed Bath & Beyond, Starbucks Coffee, Wells Fargo and Movement Performance Institute.

Oak Brook, IL - June 23, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- In adramatic expansion outside its established markets in the Midwest, triple-playmedia provider Access Media 3 has merged with Peoples Choice Cable in BocaRaton, Florida. The deal,completed June 14, 2011, nearly doubles AM3’s addressable market, stretchingthe company’s footprint far beyond its existing customer bases in Chicago andMinneapolis/St. Paul. Merging withPeoples Choice brings AM3 approximately 7,000 new subscribers in 180 buildingslocated between Miami and West Palm Beach, Florida.

IRVINE, CA - June 23, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Hanley Investment (HI) Urban Retail Advisors, a division of Hanley Investment Group Real Estate Advisors specializing in the sale and advisory of high profile mixed-use and urban retail properties in dynamic commercial districts across the United States, announced today that Carlos J. Lopez and Edward B. Hanley, represented the buyer and seller in the sale of a 1,448-square-foot individual retail/commercial condominium unit in Irvine, Calif. The price was not disclosed.

New York, NY - June 23, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- SL Green Realty Corp. (NYSE: SLG) today reported that its board of directors has declared a dividend of $0.10 per share of common stock for the quarter ending June 30, 2011. The dividend is payable on July 15, 2011 to shareholders of record at the close of business on June 30, 2011.

Tampa, FL - June 23, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- CB Richard Ellis announced today the sale of the last vacant site on the Hillsborough River. The parcel, once to be the site of Trump Tower Tampa, a 52-story luxury condominium tower, was the topic of great controversy when development plans fell through during the height of the real estate recession

WEST ORANGE, N.J. - June 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Co-moderator Richard Marchisio of Lee & Associates described the panel assembled for NAIOP New Jersey's Mid-Year Economic Roundup as, "a cross-section of our industry," and they collectively delivered a message of an economy still struggling to rebound, but a state, New Jersey, that has vastly polished its image as a place to do business. The event was held at Mayfair Farms in West Orange.

ERIE, PA - June 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Pennsylvania Treasurer Rob McCord – seeking to reunite more than $650,000 in unclaimed property with the state’s K-12 schools – visited the Erie City School District today to return over $20,000 to administrators there, and he said the returned money should be used to help preserve educational opportunities in challenging economic times.

New York, NY - June 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ALEXANDER KAPLAN, formerly a Brooklyn-based real estate lawyer and the owner of a title insurance company, was sentenced on Friday, June 17, 2011, in Manhattan federal court to 46 months in prison by United States District Judge RICHARD J. HOLWELL for his role in a multimillion dollar mortgage fraud scheme. KAPLAN was convicted, on February 6, 2009, of eighteen counts of mortgage fraud after a two-week jury trial

NORFOLK, VA - June 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- For Rent Media Solutions™, a leading resource for apartment searches nationwide and operator of ForRent.com®, a division of Dominion Enterprises, has seen success through the exclusive partnership with VaultWare, an online marketing and leasing solution provider for the multifamily housing industry. This collaboration’s recently introduced version of the VaultWare Places product will now be rolled out to a nationwide audience.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - June 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. Executive Director Stan Danzig has been appointed to the board of directors for the Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC). Danzig, who is serving as a WERC director at large, joins an impressive board for a two-year term starting 2011-2012. He is based in Cushman & Wakefield’s East Rutherford office where he focuses on industrial leasing and sales, land tract transactions, and national/global corporate representation.

Washington, DC - June 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. house prices rose 0.8 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from March to April, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s monthly House Price Index. The previously reported 0.3 percent decrease in March was revised to a 0.4 percent decrease. For the 12 months ending in April, U.S. prices fell 5.7 percent. The U.S. index is 19.3 percent below its April 2007 peak and roughly the same as the January 2004 index level.

HAMILTON, N.J. - June 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- For more than 40 years, buyers from throughout the state and beyond have traveled to Central and Southern, NJ to enjoy the very best in active adult living in a Greenbriar lifestyle community

NEW YORK, NY - June 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Ekstein Development today announced the launch of leasing at Chelsea Muse, a new boutique rental building in the center of West Chelsea’s thriving art district and just steps away from the High Line.

Torrance, CA - June 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- In one of the largest Class A multifamily transactions on the West Coast this year, Denver-based Archstone has acquired a 187-unit condominium development for $80 million from McFarlane Partners of San Francisco. Jim Fisher, a principal with Lee & Associates-LA North/Ventura, Inc., and Stephen Peters, a principal with Lee & Associates-Investment Services Group, represented both the buyer and the seller in the transaction

Las Vegas, NV - June 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- A recent report released by IMS Advanced Realty Data Services named The Myers Team the #1 Short Sale Real Estate Team in Nevada. Number one status was determined by actual short sale listings closed in 2010.

Torrance, CA - June 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Terry Kammes of Keystone Pacific Property Management has earned the Certified Community Association Manager (CCAM®) designation through the California Association of Community Managers