Business Briefs

Business Briefs

The townships of North Brunswick and South Brunswick were recently designated by Department of Community Affairs (DCA) Commissioner Susan Bass Levin to receive property tax relief in watershed moratorium offset aid. North Brunswick Township will receive $4,653, and South Brunswick Township, $987. The aid recognizes municipalities with watershed land that cannot be developed and do not generate adequate property tax revenue. The aid program was established by the Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act, and is administered through DCA’s division of local government services.

Gloria Zastko, Realtors, North Brunswick, has announced the firm has set a sales record for closed sales and listings for the first six months of 2004. The firm closed approximately $75 million, and owner Gloria Zastko attributes the record to low interest rates and a strong market.

Two sales associates in the Weichert, Realtors’ East Brunswick office were recognized with regional awards in the month of May. The region is made up of 19 offices throughout Ocean, Monmouth and Middlesex counties.

Donna Warters led the region in the categories of resale listings, resale marketed listings, resale revenue units and resale dollar volume. A member of Weichert’s Sales Club and Marketed Club, Warters qualified for the New Jersey Association of Realtors 2003 Circle of Excellence Sales Club at the platinum level. In addition, she earned membership in Weichert’s President’s Club, recognizing her in the top 1 percent of the company’s 11,000 sales associates.

Cristina Lacerda led the region in resales. A member of Weichert’s Sales Club, Lacerda qualified for the New Jersey Association of Realtors 2003 Circle of Excellence Sales Club at the gold level. In addition, she earned membership in Weichert’s President’s Club, recognizing her in the top 2 percent of the company’s 11,000 sales associates.

The East Brunswick office led the region in the categories of resale listings, resales, resale marketed listings, resale revenue units and resale dollar volume.

George S. Elghossain recently joined the Weichert, Realtors’ East Brunswick office as a sales associate.

Licensed in 1978, Elghossain earned a broker’s license in 1986 and is an instructor with Weichert Real Estate School in East Brunswick.

A longtime resident of North Brunswick, he received a bachelor’s degree in business finance from Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore.