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    Black-Owned Father-Son Real Estate Title Insurance Biz Achieves $2 Billion in Transactions

    by Fern GillespieA Black family-owned real estate title insurance firm with a history in Brooklyn, headed by founder and president Osei Rubie and his son and partner Nadir Rubie, recently achieved a milestone of $2 billion in closed real estate transactions with residential, commercial,...

    Challenges Facing Brooklyn’s Black Realtors

    By Fern GillespieRecently, the New York Times published “Selling Houses While Black,” an overview of problems facing Black real estate agents. According to the National Association of Realtors, which didn’t permit Black members until 1961, approximately 6 percent of real estate agents and brokers...
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    NO MORE RINGS AROUND IT: GAGE & TOLLNER, COMING BACK, NEVER REALLY LEFT

    Real Estate    Born in Downtown Brooklyn 140 years ago, the missed Gage & Tollner Restaurant...

    MONTGOMERY / WEINSTEIN “DEED THEFT BILL” PASSES LEGISLATURE–AWAITS SIGNATURE OF THE GOVERNOR

    Bill Provides Protections for Owners of Homes in Default or in Foreclosure Senator (Velmanette) Montgomery's...

    Another Case For Reparations

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    Channeling Outrage into Action on Behalf of Homeowners

    As Mayor Bill de Blasio doubles-down in his defense of HPD’s (Housing, Preservation and...

    Wofford Calls for State Investigation Over City’s Taking of Properties

    By Stephen Witt September 28, 2018 Editor’s Note: The following is the fifth of a KCP investigative...

    City Seizes Multiple Properties as Real Estate Scandal Grows

    By Stephen Witt & Kelly Mena Mr. McConnell Dorce, a house-owner in East New York...

    City Caught Trying to Grab Senior

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    Talking About Rent

    The pace at which new construction and housing rehabilitation is occurring in Brooklyn is...

    Shadow Studies in Crown Heights

    By Ellis Jordan Lewis Crown Heights is a well-known neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, and is...

    Redlining Blues

    Redlining is an illegal practice in real estate. It involves lenders that refuse to...

    Dead Woman’s $2.5M Brownstone Sold for $50,000

    A beautiful brownstone in Prospect Heights, valued at over $2 million, was scheduled for...

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