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After a year on the job, the Greater Syracuse Area Land Bank has issued its first progress report, which notes that several steps have been taken to start…
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The Greater Syracuse Land Bank has torn down its first house. Crews demolished a vacant home just off South Salina Street on Syracuse’s Southside Monday,…
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New York's attorney general wants to reduce the number of vacant properties in the state's cities by creating more land banks and a registry to track…
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With a wish of “good luck” to the new owners, the board of the Greater Syracuse Land Bank sold its first house Tuesday. The buyers of the vacant home on…
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The Syracuse land bank became a landlord this week as part of its work to put more city land on the tax rolls.The land bank, known formally as the Greater…
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A new state law amends New York's land bank legislation introduced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration in 2011. Land banks are mechanisms for acquiring…
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Syracuse Common Councilors have agreed to begin foreclosure proceedings on more than two dozen addition tax delinquent properties, that will be turned…
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Syracuse Common Councilors started the process of turning over tax-delinquent properties to the new Land Bank of Syracuse and Onondaga County on Monday,…
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New York state will use some of the money from last year's settlement with banks which contributed to the collapse of the housing market to help fund the…
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The City of Rochester has been given state approval to establish one of the state’s ten Land Banks. The city’s Land Bank will support the acquisition of…