August 20, 2024

The start of a new decade isn’t offering much hope for beleaguered retailers. Traditional chains are looking increasingly frail less than a month into 2020, with vacancies piling

Evans Bank set a record for profits for a fourth straight year, reaching $17.9 million in 2019. The Hamburg-based bank capped the year with net

      Five Star Bank’s parent company posted record profits in 2019, as the bank prepares to increase its Buffalo presence. Financial Institutions, based

The health center network that was founded on bringing primary care to rural areas is now expanding primary care in the city of Glens Falls.

Each of the last six years, many New York homeowners have gotten checks in the mail from Albany that may have amounted to several hundred

Penn Yan is a village of about 5,000, situated on the north end of Keuka Lake, in Yates County. It was named for its early

The New York State Assembly unanimously passed legislation this week that would establish clear and unambiguous guidelines for assessors to utilize when formulating assessments (A4752-C).

New property assessments are in the mail for Nassau County’s 1.5 million residents, and that means taxes could be going up or down. But confused

Landlord groups are disputing new city tax assessments that put the city’s property worth at $1.378 trillion. The Rent Stabilization Association says it expects a

With the New York City Advisory Commission on Property Tax Reform continuing to recommend reforms to the city’s byzantine property tax system, homeowners are eagerly

There’s now one less alluring happy hour and cheap-burger option at the Walden Galleria. Bar Louie, a bar-restaurant chain open at the mall since 2008,

Erie County officials discovered a calculation error, so now they’re going to issue corrections to any impacted 2020 tax bills. According to a statement on

With Brunswick embroiled in a lengthy dispute over the value of the Cook’s Corner Walmart, one Brunswick town councilor is trying to keep big box

New York City billionaire John A. Catsimatidis, whose United Refining Co. owns a deserted former gas station in Eggertsville, objects to the Town of Amherst’s

A two-year-old Buffalo charter school plans to relocate from its temporary rental space on Michigan Avenue to a boarded-up former public school building at the

The owner of Southgate Plaza in West Seneca will pay about $75,000 less in taxes under a settlement that ends a six-year-old challenge to the

New York City assessors are flashing a warning sign about a slowing real-estate market—even though city property-tax bills continue to rise. Market values of existing

                    The more officials change the state’s property tax relief program the more confusing it becomes.

Five Star Bank is making a bigger push into the city of Buffalo, with two new branches coming soon. The bank, which is based in

County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz has appointed the county’s deputy budget director to become the director of real property tax services. Scott Bylewski, a lawyer

City officials revised the assessments on more than 3,000 Syracuse properties this month — likely more than in any year since 1996 — in an

Let’s face it:   Predicting anything is difficult — usually impossible. While mortgage trends are no exception to this reality, evidence-based predictions do serve a