The highest number of closed sales occurred in Suffolk County with 12,913, followed by Nassau County with 9,748, and Westchester County with 7,127.
Garafalo was the president of the Orange County Association of Realtors in 2011 and the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors in 2019.
One bill establishes the New York State first home savings program to allow first-time homebuyers to open saving accounts that would be eligible for personal income deductions.
HGAR and OneKey MLS presented a Zoom webinar on Sept. 10 with an expert panel of guests that discussed residential sales activity in New York City as well the latest on the recently-launched OneKey MLS—the first regional multiple listing service in the New York Metro area that boasts 40,000+ listings in 500 communities from Manhattan to the Hamptons to the Catskills. The panel included HGAR CEO Richard Haggerty; Brian D. Tormey, NTP, President, TitleVest; Leah Caro, President and Principal Broker, Park Sterling Realty and Chairperson, Board of Managers, OneKey MLS; Tracy Weir, CEO & Founder, August Partners, Inc.; Brian Phillips, Associate Broker, Douglas Elliman Real Estate and Leonard Steinberg, Chief Evangelist, Associate Broker, Compass.
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Garafalo was the president of the Orange County Association of Realtors in 2011 and the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors in 2019.
Incoming HGAR President Sejdi is an Associate Broker with HomeSmart Homes & Estates in White Plains. She served as President-Elect in 2024, Secretary in 2023, and Regional Director for Westchester County in 2022.
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