Every day for the past few months, Jim Dunleavy has done
little but sit in his office and wait for clients to call.

Chief operating officer of NAI CIR

REAL ESTATE NEWS: openings, contracts, transactions, relocations

Ranked by dollar volume of local commercial sales and leases

Ranked by number of local inspectors.

Ranked by number of local closings.

Mount Joy Country Homes is planning a multiyear expansion to
more than double its acreage and number of residences.

A York
County businessman has
been elected to the Washington, D.C.-based U.S. National Academy of
Engineering.

Harrisburg general contractor
JEM Group recently started work on a $1.2 million contract to transform a
historic Harrisburg
schoolhouse at 279 Boas St.
into 33 apartments.

The negative forecasts surrounding housing, retail spending
and other aspects of the economy don’t appear to worry some of the area’s
commercial property managers and developers.

Commercial and industrial real estate group CB Richard Ellis
(CBRE) Inc. today announced it ranked fifth on Fortune magazine’s annual list
of Most Admired Companies in the U.S. real estate industry.

Harsco Corp. today announced a deal to provide factory
services to Emirates Steel in a new 10-year, $35 million contract.

Four large, venerable buildings sit at George Street and Springettsbury Avenue in York.

A high-ranking official at Manor Township-based Armstrong
World Industries Inc. today announced his intention to retire April 1.

Mortgage foreclosures spiked significantly in Lancaster and
York counties last year compared to 2007, but the rest of the midstate was
shielded from the swath of foreclosures that blanketed the country.