Sentences with phrase «appealing for real estate developers»

Going green is typically associated with elevated costs, but federal tax incentives can actually make going green financially appealing for real estate developers and owners of private buildings.

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Silver's other legal work, for a separate firm that handled property tax assessment appeals, was unknown to the public until a year ago: Prosecutors successfully argued that Silver received legal fees from real estate developers — including Glenwood Management, the state's most generous political donor — that had extensive business before the Legislature, and did his best to conceal the arrangement from ethics watchdogs.

But during his trial, Silver was found to have arranged payments from developers to a law firm that handled property tax appeals for real estate companies, yielding hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees for the speaker.

The arrangements have increasingly appealed to U.S. real estate developers looking for financing of late.