NEW YORK, NY January 24, 2012 WSP Flack + Kurtz, the international engineering firm, has promoted Frank Muscarella, LEED AP, PE, to senior vice president, announces David Cooper, PE, LEED AP BD+C, the firm’s president and chief executive officer. Mr. Muscarella, who is also the assistant department head for WSP Flack + Kurtz’s New York [...]

Single-family home sales in the Bay State dropped 5 percent last month to 3,380, reversing five prior months of year-over-year sales gains, according to a report issued today by The Warren Group. In all of 2011, single-family home sales statewide dropped nearly 6 percent to 38,994, down from 41,389 home sales in 2010. This is [...]

The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage fell again this week to a record low. The eighth record low in a year is attracting few takers because most who can afford to buy or refinance have already done so. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage [...]

LOS ANGELES Griffin Capital Taps Sales Veteran as Pres. of Capital Markets By Laurie Forbes Griffin Capital Securities hired Jeffery Schwaber as president of capital markets and to oversee the distribution of Griffin Capital Net Lease REIT and Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II. He will be based at the company’s corporate office in El Segundo, CA. [...]