Buffalo Rising Online

MJ Peterson Real Estate has been around since 1930, but their presence in the City of Buffalo has grown tremendously in the last two years. "We're firing on all cylinders," Realtor Joe Suppa said. We opened this office because we saw what was happening in the city, and we wanted to be part of it—on the ground floor." The New Buffalo City office has is already out preformed some of the other suburban branches, with sales in the first qutarter of this year topping $12 million.

Sales Associate Kelly Barbus added, "We all live and work in the city." Barbus herself went from living in the Elmwood Village area to Parkside, and says that there was a period of adjustment. "Parkside is almost like a suburb within the city, and suburbanites want in. Go to any open house, and they're mostly people from the suburbs."

Susie Lenahan, a top listing and selling broker for the last 11 years, who has a CBR, or Certified Buyers Realtor designation said, "I'm still getting multiple offers of sales i…