“The top driver of our affordability crisis is the rising cost of rent and mortgages, and New Yorkers need our help.”
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.
Rates at 6% are the new normal, and from a historical perspective they’re completely fine, especially given the strength of the economy and inflation adjusted wage gains over the past few years.
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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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.
While the goal of protecting tenants is important, the reality is that this law could have far-reaching consequences that hurt housing affordability and discourage real estate investment.
A Realtor for 59 years and consecutive member of NAR for 40 years, McCarey was also celebrating his 85th birthday on the day he received the award.
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