News in brief
RE alliance forms
Houlihan Lawrence, the Bronxville-based residential real estate company, has joined three other independent metropolitan brokerages to share exclusive property listings online. One executive involved in the deal called it unprecedented in their industry.
The newly formed Tri-State Alliance also includes Halstead Property in New York City, Coach Realtors in Northport, L.I., and Turpin Realtors in Far Hills, N.J. Each firm”™s listings can be searched at all four company websites.
A spokeswoman for the alliance said the partnership brings together 68 office locations, more than 2,900 sales agents and nearly 8,000 house listings.
Christopher Meyers, a principal of Houlihan Lawrence, a leading broker of luxury homes in Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties, in a press release said the increased visibility of the listings will help both sellers and buyers and increase the brand awareness of the respective firms “in markets where we might not have a bricks and mortar presence.”
Fresh Market opens
The Fresh Market Inc. celebrated the grand opening Jan. 18 of its specialty grocery at 723 White Plains Road in Scarsdale.
About 90 jobs will be filled at the 21,700-square-foot store, the second Fresh Market store to open in New York state.
Based in Greensboro, N.C., The Fresh Market now operates 112 neighborhood stores in the Southeast, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast and plans to continue expanding across the country.
Ethics in an app
The New York State Bar Association has released a free mobile application that allows judges, lawyers and law students to access instant ethics advice from their smartphones.
The 77,000-member lawyers group has put its catalog of more than 900 legal ethics opinions, dating to 1964, on an app for iPhones, Android phones and BlackBerrys as well as iPads.
The app is available through the private smartphone companies or at the bar association website at www.nysba.org/ethicsapp. Ethics opinions can be viewed on the web at www.nysba.org/ethics.