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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
‘City Living Sundays’ are back for 20th year
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: March 15, 2012
Tags: City Living Sundays, City of Rochester, Greater Rochester Association of Realtors
The dates for the 20th annual “City Living Sundays,” which start this weekend, have been released. City Living Sundays is a consortium of area lenders, neighborhood associations, private businesses, the Greater Rochester Association of Realtors, The Landmark Society of Western N.Y., Rochester City School District and the city to market homes while promoting the unique [...]
Rental real estate market still strong in Rochester
By Todd Etshman
POSTED: March 15, 2012
Tags: property investors, real estate market
National studies by real estate investment company HomeVestors of America, Inc., in conjunction with real estate forecaster Local Market Monitor, continue to identify Rochester as one of the best cities in the country for rental property investors, based on first quarter rankings of the nation’s top 100 markets. “There are good opportunities for investors in [...]
Is rent control effectively a seizure? The Supremes take a look
By Dolan Media Newswires
POSTED: March 11, 2012
Tags: new york city, rent control, rental properties, SCOTUS
The battle over a rent-controlled, Upper West Side Manhattan apartment has landed before the U.S. Supreme Court. And the justices are taking a look at the constitutional implications of a law that has been part of the fabric of New York City. The owners of a rental property, where tenant Nancy Wing Lombardi has lived [...]
Buffalo announces foreclosure changes
By Todd Etshman
POSTED: March 8, 2012
Tags: Buffalo, foreclosure process, Mayor Byron W. Brown, Taxes
On Tuesday, Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown announced sweeping changes to the city’s property tax foreclosure process. Historically, Buffalo filed foreclosures on properties owing any amount of fees to the city after one year, but will now limit those foreclosure filings to properties that have at least $200 in debts In addition, the foreclosure fee [...]
Court upholds foreclosure for unpaid taxes
By Denise M. Champagne
POSTED: February 23, 2012
Tags: appeal, Appellate Division, City of Rochester, foreclosure proceeding, Fourth Department
An attorney for a Rochester man plans to pursue a further appeal in a foreclosure proceeding for non payment of property taxes. The Appellate Division, Fourth Department has upheld the Jan. 25, 2011, decision of Supreme Court Justice John J. Ark who denied the petition of 91-year-old Mitchell Duvall to vacate the foreclosure judgment by [...]
