REAL ESTATE
New website aims to help Amazon employees fi nd LIC homes
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
edavenport@qns.com
@QNS
A new website is coming next year that
will help fi nd homes for Amazon employees
Sales in Queens HOMES COOPS CONDOS Listings and photos courtesy MLSLI
NORTHEAST NORTHWEST SOUTHEAST SOUTHWEST
BAYSIDE JACKSON HEIGHTS ST. ALBANS REGO PARK
Under $500,000
10-17 Whitestone Expwy., Whitestone
$299,000
Co-op
2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom
Bianca Colasuonno
Compass Greater NY LLC
$500,000-900,000
144-23 Barclay Ave., Flushing
$698,000
Condo
2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms
Julia Kit Yeung
Excellent Realty LLC
Over $900,000
36-12 202nd St., Bayside
$1,130,000
1-family Colonial
3 bedrooms, 1 ½ bathrooms
See Yong Wong
Winzone Realty
Under $500,000
56-05 31st Ave., Woodside
$450,000
Co-op
2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom
Geraldine McKeon
Keller Williams Landmark II
$500,000-900,000
73-12 35th Ave., Jackson Heights
$655,000
Co-op
2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom
Yael Goldman
Nu Place Realty
Over $900,000
31-63 42nd St., Astoria
$1,100,000
2-family home
4 bedrooms, 2 ½ bathrooms
Nicholas Conti
Laff ey Real Estate
Under $500,000
114-15 199th St., St. Albans
$480,000
1-family Tudor
3 bedrooms, 1 ½ bathrooms
Chrystina Peoples
Core Realty Elite
$500,000-900,000
89-11 Hollis Court Blvd., Queens Village
$688,000
1-family Colonial
4 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 2 half-baths
Rosy Chalif
Charles Rutenberg Realty
Over $900,000
80-27 213th St., Hollis Hills
$999,999
1-family Cape
4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms
Elizabeth Fouche Rigaud
Exit Realty First Choice
Under $500,000
123-35 82nd Rd., Kew Gardens
$259,000
Co-op
1 bedroom, 1 bathroom
Mingji Cui Moy
Benjamin Realty
$500,000-900,000
95-28 81st St., Ozone Park
$730,000
2-family Colonial
4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms
Mei Yun Guo
Graceful World Realty
Over $900,000
85-59 67th Ave., Rego Park
$969,000
1-family Colonial
3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms
Jay Mancus
LA Rosa Realty New York
fi nd homes in and around Long Island
City.
Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International
Realty is teaming up with TTR Sotheby’s
International Realty, Realogics Sotheby’s
International Realty and Sotheby’s
International Realty to launch
MyHQHome.com, a website that aims to
current and future employees of Amazon
fi nd a home near Amazon’s two new
headquarters.
MyHQHome.com will also help Seattle
area residents that may choose to sell or
lease their local home, or the surrounding
areas near Long Island City and Crystal
City. Th e full website with all of its features
is set to launch in January 2019.
“Our goal is to provide an informational
resource and personalized services
through our exclusive network for Global
Real Estate Advisors whom are resident
experts in these target neighborhoods,”
said Dean Jones, president and CEO of
Realogics Sotheby’s International Realty.
According to Deirdre O’Connell, CEO
of Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International
Realty, it was important that
MyHQHome.com had local
information that would be
important to potential users.
“We’re building the website
so Amazon employees
can experience all of our
communities to move or join
the company,” O’Connell
said. “Th e website will have
information about the neighborhoods
and services available
to them.”
In time, according to
O’Connell, MyHQHome.
com will be useful to those
beyond potential Amazon employees and
transplants.
“It will be a public portal, so it can be
helpful for those who want to sell in the
area as well,” O’Connell said.
O’Connell believes that the addition
of Amazon’s HQ2 and Google’s further
expansion into Manhattan will ultimately
be good for the New York area and that
we will see a signifi cant shift in the people.
“We anticipate that there will be a surge
in rentals at fi rst,” O’Connell said. “Th en
I think we’ll see people to feather out into
other communities based on their preferences
and tastes.”
“I think we’ll be just as active with luxury
lease referrals as we are with home
sales,” added Jones. “We know some of
these leases will evolve into home purchases
a few years later.”
O’Connell said that Daniel Gale
Sotheby’s International Realty is looking
forward to helping potentials users
of MyHQHome.com fi nd not just a place
to live, but also to fi nd a community that
they can call home.
“I think this a very optimistic time for
Queens, Long Island and the New York
area as a whole and we’re very excited to
be a part of it,” O’Connell said.
For more information, visit
MyHQHome.com.
Photo courtesy of Flickr/Gabe Shore
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