Richard Stein - Realtor®, GREEN, SFR, CBR, eCertified® -- Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate, Long Island, NY

Morgan Park Summer Music Festival Glen Cove

Richard Stein — Sun, 20 May 2012 10:00:38 +0000

Free Concerts in the Park at 7:30 pm SUNDAY, JULY 1 Brother Joscephus and the Love Revival Revolution Orchestra New Orleans style rhythm and jazz SUNDAY, JULY 8 Swingtime Big Band Swinging the Classics SATURDAY, JULY 14 Young Performers in Concert featuring 2012 Talent Competition Winners SUNDAY, JULY 15 The Producers Plaza Productions SUNDAY, JULY [...]

Glen Cove Downtown Sounds 2012

Richard Stein — Sat, 19 May 2012 10:00:00 +0000

Concerts Start At 7pm Fri July 1: Soul Sound Revue Fri July 8: The Losers Lounge:`80′s Dance Night Fri July 15: The Marty Napoleon Jazz Quintet The Jumpers Fri July 22: Richie Cannata Eren Cannata Young Rebel Goombas Fri July 29: Dr. K’s Motown Revue Fri Aug 5: Jerry Hernandez y Orquesta Dee Jay Fri [...]

Fifth Avenue,West Side pacing retail rents

Richard Stein — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:26:42 +0000

By LOIS WEISS A new report has provided evidence to back up what brokers have been saying: it is harder for stores to find retail space in the prominent shopping corridors, with rents jumping as much as 75 percent on Fifth Avenue from 42nd to 49th streets since just one year ago. Ground floor asking [...]

US housing starts up in April

Richard Stein — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:00:55 +0000

By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Maybe the U.S. economy’s strength this winter wasn’t just weather-related after all. Home construction is near a three-year high. And factory output has risen in three of the year’s first four months. The data released Wednesday suggest growth in the April-June quarter is off to [...]

Housing Starts Probably Rebounded in U.S.

Richard Stein — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:16:24 +0000

By Shobhana Chandra A construction worker measures and marks wood as he helps build a new home in St. George, Utah, on May 10, 2012. Photographer: George Frey/Bloomberg Builders in the U.S. probably broke ground on more houses in April, rebounding from a five-month low and indicating the industry is stabilizing, economists said before a [...]

LI home prices continue downward

Richard Stein — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:11:42 +0000

by MAURA MCDERMOTT / maura.mcdermott@newsday.com Long Island home prices dipped again last month, as the local real estate market continues to stumble. Home buyers in Nassau County paid a median price of $397,000 in April, 2 percent lower than the same period last year, the Multiple Listing Service of Long Island said in a report [...]

Online, Exploring a Manhattan Dotted With Farms

Richard Stein — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:30:07 +0000

By SAM ROBERTS Manhattan borough president’s officeA map of Manhattan’s farmland as of 1836 shows farms in what are now the East 50s. Few notions are more alien to Manhattanites than the fact they are living on what was once farmland. To make the concept less abstract, the Museum of the City of New York [...]

Happy Mother’s Day!!!

Richard Stein — Sun, 13 May 2012 10:00:07 +0000

Mortgage Giant Offers Another Sign of Stabilizing Market

Richard Stein — Sat, 12 May 2012 10:00:28 +0000

Fannie Mae, which backs the most loans in the country, announced that it would not need taxpayer aid to cover losses for the first time since the federal government took control over the mortgage giant in 2008. Fannie posted a profit in the first quarter of the year, reporting a net income of $2.7 billion [...]

Top 10 Turnaround Housing Markets

Richard Stein — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:00:39 +0000

Cities hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis are among some of the cities leading a housing recovery, Move Inc. reports in its Top Turnaround Town Report for May. Move Inc. compiled a list of Top Turnaround Towns for this month, using year-over-year housing data from the first quarters of 2012 and 2011. Many of the [...]