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BARNEGAT, N.J. - August 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Walters Homes has sold out its current inventory of eco-friendly townhouses at Whispering Hills. Pre-construction sales are currently underway on six units in Building 10, slated for construction in October 2011.

JERSEY CITY, N.J. - August 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.'s Metropolitan Area Capital Markets Group (CMG) has arranged the sale of 2 Journal Square Plaza, a landmark nine-story, 325,000-square-foot class A office building in Jersey City, N.J., representing seller Hartz Mountain Industries. The buyer in the $78 million transaction was Gaia Real Estate Investments in partnership with Phoenix Insurance and Menora Mivtachim Insurance, both based in Israel.

BARNEGAT, N.J. - August 16, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Walters Group, a leading residential and commercial real estate developer, has announced that it has promoted Rylie Ragan Smith of Manasquan to community manager of Stafford Preserve, a new luxury rental community slated for occupancy in the spring of 2012. The project is located just off Exit 63 of the Garden State Parkway, on Stafford Park Blvd. in Manahawkin.

EUGENE, OR- August 12, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. is pleased to announce their newest client addition, Jim Dooney with The LBI Realty Group, to the growing list of real estate professionals choosing to give their websites a competitive advantage, by incorporating the highly customizable IDX Broker software. Dooney is an active member of the Jersey Shore MLS (OCBR), and now potential home buyers browsing properties in Long Beach Island and its surrounding areas will now be granted instant access to a multitude of the most up-to-date property listings, details and photo galleries on the market, right on Donney's website. This innovative and original Internet Data Exchange (IDX) software has the technology to extract raw data from the OCBR, and formats and transfers the information, to indistinguishably match Dooney's already existing page preferences and specifications

EDISON, N.J. - August 8, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Commercial real estate industry veteran Marc Petrella of Belmar, N.J., has joined Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. in Edison as a senior director in the firm’s Central New Jersey industrial practice. He most recently served as first vice president/market officer at Prologis, where he was responsible for the overall performance and profitability of the company’s 18.6 million-square-foot New Jersey industrial real estate portfolio.

BARNEGAT, N.J. - August 5, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Walters Group, a leading residential and commercial real estate developer, has announced that it has promoted Carrie Adragna of Manahawkin to community manager of Atlantic Heights at Barnegat, a luxury apartment community in southern Ocean County.

WEST ORANGE, N.J. - August 5, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- In preparation for the launch of two new furnished models on the north side of the property this fall, Vizcaya, the luxury residential community in West Orange, NJ, has moved its sales center. The sales center is now located in the furnished model of the community’s Maisonette home, which gives home buyers a chance to see a unique floor plan that combines the best aspects of penthouse and brownstone living.

BEDMINSTER, NJ - August 4, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The New Jersey Chapter of NAIOP, the commercial real estate development association, has opened registration for the NAIOP NJ Jeffrey J. Siegel Golf Classic, to be held September 19 at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster.

N.J. - August 3, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Cushman & Wakefield released midyear 2011 statistics for the U.S. industrial market that show the overall vacancy rate for New Jersey has declined. At the same time, the overall vacancy rate for the U.S. has declined to a two-year low.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - August 2, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- With the addition of 45 new members in Q1 of 2011, NAIOP New Jersey, the commercial real estate development association, has seen its ranks grow. Established in 1970, NAIOP New Jersey is the leading commercial real estate, land use and economic development resource in the state. Through its link to NAIOP corporate, the New Jersey Chapter provides a direct connection to 18,000 members in North America.

August 2, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The first half of 2011 has seen significant capital allocated to real estate, but the market remains a "tale of two cities." The absolute right product continues to attract a great deal of interest, but if an asset is "slightly off," there is no action for it. That trend spans all four primary property types – retail, office, industrial, and multi-family.

BARNEGAT, NJ - August 1, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- For generations, the American Dream has been synonymous with homeownership. Today, however, with the stress on housing markets, some Americans are redefining that dream, finding they don’t have to buy to live well.

July 29, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The $12 million sale price for Long Point in Rumson, N.J., has secured Kelly Zaccaro’s place in the annals of real estate history. On the heels of four continuous months of improving national home sale numbers, Zaccaro, a veteran sales associate with the Rumson office of Gloria Nilson, REALTORS®, Real Living – the leading high-end real estate brokerage in central New Jersey – recently closed the single largest residential real estate transaction in the history of Rumson.

ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. - July 27, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Thirteen new members representing a broad range of commercial real estate-related professions have been accepted as members of the Industrial and Office Brokers Association of the New York Metropolitan Area (IOREBA). Dating back more than eight decades, IOREBA now has members in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania.

HILLSIDE, N.J. - July 27, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- For the second year in a row, the Community Action Committee of NAIOP New Jersey conducted a food drive and volunteer day to benefit the Community Food Bank of New Jersey. More than 50 members, friends and staff of the commercial real estate association spent a full day transporting and unloading food donations, packing pasta and preparing food bags for seniors at the Hillside, N.J. headquarters of CFB, which provides food for 1,500 non-profit groups across New Jersey. NAIOP New Jersey members collected more than 450 pounds of food at their companies' workplaces, as well as cash donations at industry events and through a Virtual Food Drive

Mt. Laurel, NJ - July 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- MAMCO Property Management, an Associa company, is excited to announce that is has added to its diverse New Jersey client base and will offer management services to Knightsbridge Community Association.

NEWARK, N.J. - July 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The law firm of Baldassare & Mara, LLC has leased 2,360 square feet at 570 Broad Street in Newark, representing the first commitment at the 15-story tower since The Berger Organization purchased a controlling interest in 570 Broad Street LLC, a partnership, earlier this year. The practice will relocate to the property from Chatham, N.J.

Clifton, NJ - July 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- A nine-year veteran of real estate investing, Ankit Duggal, Founder of RER, LLC, has bought, fixed, and sold his fair share of real estate. But Ankit’s rarity lies in a vision that stretches much further than flipping houses— the young entrepreneur has set out to revitalize distressed neighborhoods into valuable communities, one home at a time

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - July 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Evidence of recovery has spread throughout New Jersey’s office and industrial real estate markets at mid-year 2011, according to Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. in East Rutherford.

ENGLEWOOD, N.J. - July 20, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Commercial real estate owner/operator Prism Capital Partners, LLC is set to break ground this summer on Phase I of The Parkway Lofts, a multifamily adaptive reuse in Bloomfield and East Orange, N.J. The project will convert a 114-year-old, 365,000-square-foot former General Electric Company warehouse property, located on the Garden State Parkway, into 361 loft-style apartments. At build out, the 14.5-acre site will be transformed into a distinctive, high-density residential village also featuring 150 for-sale townhomes, a clubhouse and other lifestyle amenities, to be built as part of Phase II.