July 6, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Gloria Nilson, REALTORS®, Real Living, the preeminent high-end real estate brokerage in central New Jersey, announced today the appointment of Casey Jones as director of its Elegant Homes International division. With more than 35 years of real estate sales growth and brand marketing experience, Jones joins Gloria Nilson’s executive team where he will assist its real estate agents with the day-to-day efforts of servicing existing clients and generating new business for all associates. An expert in sales positioning and market presence, Jones’ ambition is to increase the firm’s presence and build a successful, customer service-driven real estate boutique office in the Princeton marketplace.

WASHINGTON, DC - July 4, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-8) today joined other federal and City of Paterson officials in opening the Belmont Senior Apartments, which provide 85 units of affordable housing for seniors. The Congressman also announced a $425,491 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for resident support services at the Belmont Senior Apartments and other affordable housing developments in the city.

Clifton, NJ - July 1, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Ankit Duggal, Founder of RER, LLC, a real estate investment and consulting company, sits down with Judson Voss of “Get Real REI” to share the ups and downs of launching your own business and divulges how he went from below zero revenue to managing millions in investment funding.

RED BANK, N.J. - June 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Commercial real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. has been named leasing agent for 73 Broad Street, a Class A downtown office building. Director John Kaye of the firm's Edison, N.J. office is handling the assignment on behalf of the locally based ownership, Downtown Investors, LLC.

TRENTON, NJ - June 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Paula T. Dow and Criminal Justice Director Stephen J. Taylor announced that the Division of Criminal Justice has obtained indictments charging three former administrators and a former shop foreman at the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission with directing subordinate employees to complete repairs or improvements at the private homes of the administrators or people close to them while the subordinates were on duty for the PVSC.

PISCATAWAY, N.J. - June 29, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Commercial real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. has orchestrated an 11,000-square-foot headquarters lease for Shadow Financial Systems at Washington Plaza, 1551 South Washington Ave. in Piscataway. The software company, which develops solutions for global securities processing, reconciliation, clearing, treasury and accounting, will relocate to the Class A property from Edison, N.J., this summer in an expansion move.

June 29, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Good commercial property management, by definition, is pretty simple. Buildings are well maintained and attractive, systems do what they should do, and tenant needs are addressed promptly and thoroughly. Quality property management ranks right up there with location as a key to attracting and, even more importantly, retaining tenants.

HAMILTON, N.J. - June 29, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- It promises to be the most talked about event of the year, and the public is invited to attend. Lennar’s MusicFest, an outdoor food and music festival, will be held on Saturday, July 16 from noon to 4 p.m. at the national homebuilder’s 55-and-better communities of Greenbriar Oceanaire in Waretown, Greenbriar Stonebridge in Monroe Township and Greenbriar Fox Ridge in Rockaway Township. The rain date is Sunday, July 17.

STAFFORD TOWNSHIP, N.J. - June 27, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Stafford Park’s newest addition, Olive Garden, opened its doors to the public, making it the first restaurant to join the variety of successful retailers at the large-scale mixed-use redevelopment in southern Ocean County.

STAFFORD TOWNSHIP, N.J. - June 24, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Walters Group, developer of Stafford Park, has broken ground on Stafford Preserve, a luxury rental community, consisting of 18 three-story buildings, totaling 216 units. The new community will feature green design and environmentally conscious construction. The project will begin occupancy in April 2012.

LYNDHURST, N.J. - June 24, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Argo Turboserve Corporation (ATC), a provider of supply chain management and nuclear engineering services, has expanded and extended its headquarters lease at Cityview Corporate Center in Lyndhurst, announced commercial real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. The company added 5,200 square feet to its space at the 160 Chubb Ave. property, bringing its occupancy to a total of 19,840 square feet

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.

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.

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.

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

MORRISTOWN, NJ - June 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Headquarters Plaza, the Class A commercial buildings in downtown Morristown with 706,000 square feet of office space, recently introduced a new service that is unique to New Jersey’s commercial real estate market: an on-site corporate concierge.

WASHINGTON, DC - June 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, a dozen U.S. Senators sent a letter to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) urging the agency to work with State Attorneys General, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to hold mortgage servicers accountable for deficient servicing procedures and improperly foreclosing on homeowners and to develop a comprehensive solution to fix the broken foreclosure process.

BAYONNE, NJ - June 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- With its unrivaled resort-style amenities and lifestyle on full display during the recently held public “VIP Showcase,” Alexan CityView is reporting a significant surge in leasing activity to start the summer months.

EUGENE, OR - June 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, IDX Broker software has been integrated onto yet another professional real estate website, this time by Jim Van Note. IDX, Inc. has synced the website Van Note hosts with a dynamic IDX solution, making the search page of Van Note monumentally more helpful to New Jersey home seekers. Finding a home in Montclair, New Jersey has never been easier, thanks to the online real estate resource IDX Broker and the Garden State MLS (GSMLS) supply to potential buyers.

TRENTON, NJ - June 16, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Paula T. Dow and Division of Criminal Justice Director Stephen J. Taylor announced that two Pennsylvania men and a construction company have been charged in a state grand jury indictment for their alleged roles in an insurance fraud scheme that targeted homes purportedly damaged by hail.