Landowners assert right to frack for gas
By The Associated Press
POSTED: May 10, 2012
Tags: fracking, landowners, Marcellus shale, natural gas, Property Rights
ALBANY — A coalition of upstate New York landowners seeking to lease land for natural gas drilling pressed state officials Wednesday to consider the rights of property owners as they make decisions on shale gas development. The Joint Landowners Coalition of New York was at the Capitol to present a “Declaration of Rights.” [...]
Housing achievement awards announced
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 9, 2012
Tags: Housing Achievement Awards, Rochester Housing Council
The Rochester Housing Council announced the inaugural recipients of the Joseph C. Wilson Housing Achievement Award. The award is named in honor of the Xerox founder, who was an original member of a community housing council created in response to the Rochester riots of 1964, to address area-housing needs and issues. The inaugural [...]
Rochester in middle of pack nationally for office space 
By Denise M. Champagne
POSTED: April 26, 2012
Tags: Economy, industrial space, office space, tenants
The Greater Rochester area is near national averages in terms of office and industrial space. Currently, it is in the middle of several leading markets across the nation, according to figures presented Thursday by executives of the Rochester office of CBRE Group Inc., a global real estate services firm. Speaking to the Upstate NY Chapter [...]
City property inspection warrant under fire
By Denise M. Champagne
POSTED: April 25, 2012
Tags: challenge, City of Rochester, city property inspection warrant, warrantless search
In the most recent challenge to the city’s property inspection warrant law, a Supreme Court justice agreed with a property owner that a provision of the law is unconstitutional. The city, which won a similar dual challenge in December, has filed an appeal. “The city believes that this ruling is contrary to a recent decision [...]
National open house this weekend
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: April 24, 2012
Tags: National Association of Realtors, open house
Realtors expect this year’s spring home buying season to be a busy one. To kick it off, Realtors from coast to coast will host thousands of open houses as part of the Realtor Nationwide Open House Weekend April 28-29. Realtors in the Greater Rochester and Finger Lakes regions will hold open houses all weekend long, [...]
Supreme Court won’t hear appeal over rent control
By The Associated Press
POSTED: April 23, 2012
Tags: rent control, U.S. supreme court
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal that seeks to end rent stabilization laws in New York City. The high court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from James and Jeanne Harmon, who have lost earlier court attempts to get rent stabilization laws thrown out. The Harmons inherited a building with [...]
First quarter home sale numbers up
By Todd Etshman
POSTED: April 22, 2012
Tags: housing market, National Association of Realtors, numbers up
The housing market’s recovery may have stalled, nationally (according to the National Association of Realtors), but Rochester area Realtors, builders and mortgage bankers reported noticeably stronger housing numbers for the first quarter of 2012 in the Genesee Region. Unusually warm weather, improving employment figures and a revised Home Affordable Refinance Program are some of the [...]
Program to benefit homeless veterans
By Todd Etshman
POSTED: April 12, 2012
Tags: homeless veterans, HUD, Providence Housing Development Corp., Veterans Affairs
The Obama administration, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs want to help over 10,500 homeless veterans find housing and receive the supportive services they need to get back on their feet. “It’s a national disgrace that one out of every six men and women in our shelters [...]
Nothnagle Realtors recognized
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: April 9, 2012
Tags: Leading Real Estate COmpanies of the World, member achievement award, Nothnagle Realtors
Nothnagle Realtors is the recipient of a Leading Real Estate Companies of the World Member Achievement Award, presented March 25 at the organization’s 2012 annual conference in Orlando, Fla. The event attracted 1,000 real estate brokers, managers, relocation professionals, sponsors and guests from across the U.S. and more than a dozen countries. Nothnagle received the [...]
Parcel remains vacant
By Denise M. Champagne
POSTED: April 6, 2012
Tags: hotel, land, undeveloped parcel, vacant
Future development of a prime commercial site in the town of Penfield, the subject of a recent foreclosure proceeding, is still up in the air. Matthew Hearle, a partner in the New York City law firm Goldberg Weprin Finkel & Goldstein, said it will be a couple of weeks before the finance company that controls [...]
Declines seen in lead poisoning litigation
By Lucia Walinchus
POSTED: April 6, 2012
Tags: CDC, lawsuits, lead poisoning
Lead litigation has generally declined in Rochester over the past several years, although new recommendations by a committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could tighten lead poisoning standards. In January, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention recommended, based on available studies, that children be treated for lead poisoning based [...]
Neighbors support brew house project
By Denise M. Champagne
POSTED: April 2, 2012
Tags: brew pub, Genesee Brewery, Northeast Area Development Group
Some of the people who live in the neighborhood near the Genesee Brewery want others to think about their view when considering whether or not to declare part of the complex a city landmark. George Moses, executive director of Northeast Area Development/Group 14621 Community Association Inc., led about a dozen residents and members of the [...]
