Long Island

Pro-Active Business Solutions provides surveillance solutions

Historically, public housing has been plagued with high crime rates and as a result unable to serve as the government's answer as a safe ref...

Put your finder's fee arrangement in writing to avoid any disputes

Many developers use the services of "finders" to locate opportunities to invest in and/or develop properties. While the use of finders is c...

Green building initiatives are now catching on with healthcare facilities

A nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high- performance green buildings, the "green building" initia...

Terrana of FCSMC&C wins case for Goya

John Terrana, Esq., partner-in-charge of the tax certiorari department at the law firm of Forchelli, Curto, Schwartz, Mineo, Carlino & Cohn,...

A nation of laws: Battling corruption in the building department

Watching the recent HBO mini-series "John Adams," I was struck by something John Adams had said to his fellow countrymen. In the days after ...

Affordable housing requires title insurance expertise

As any developer can tell you, building affordable housing isn't the most profitable work in the world - not by any stretch of the imaginati...

DesRochers and Cotsalas of NorthMarq Capital arrange 2 mortgages totaling $15.1m

Ernest DesRochers, senior vice president and managing director, and Charles Cotsalas, senior vice president and senior director, in NorthMar...

Farrell Fritz closes purchase of 270,000 s/f for The Engel Burman Grp.

On May 16, Farrell Fritz's commercial real estate department completed their representation of The Engel Burman Group in the purchase and ac...

Question of the Month

Q: We are trying to buy an industrial building for our distribution business. We have lost two deals in a row, and are getting frustrated. ...

Delisle and Nicholson of Island Associates sell 1.5 acres for $2.35m

Roger Delisle and Chris Nicholson of Island Associates brokers 1.5 acres (60,000 s/f) of J 2 zoning to Commerce Bank in Ronkonkoma on Porti...