Its prospects are even dimmer in the Republican - led Senate, where GOP lawmakers historically aligned with the real
estate lobby do not let pro-tenant bills come to the floor for a vote.
Not exact matches
Asked if Mr. Cuomo, the beneficiary of large donations from the real
estate industry, has
done enough to
lobby and pressure the Republican - controlled State Senate to join the Democrat - dominated Assembly in supporting those measures, Mr. Rangel's answer was firmly negative.
LaBarbera and representatives of construction labor management funds, which advocate for companies that use organized labor and related unions, said it was clear the real
estate lobbying group had more sway at City Hall than they
did, given that they were not invited into the 421 - a discussions the administration and REBNY had engaged in.
Of particular concern was the fact that the legal fees Silver earned through a real
estate tax firm
doing work for developers, one of which regularly
lobbied Silver directly, never appeared on his disclosure forms.
The Canadian Real
Estate Association has
done a tremendous job of
lobbying the government to enshrine property rights into our constitution.
This might mean passing the ownership of the term to a separate organization that dealt strictly with membership standards for this new, self - governing, private, registrant «club», or perhaps dividing CREA into two sections, one
doing advertising and
lobbying for the whole of board - organized real
estate, and the other dealing with maintaining the standards that the new «Realtor» logo would signify.
Although Toronto is the only municipality in Ontario that currently has its own Land Transfer Tax, the Ontario Real
Estate Association (OREA) is proactively
lobbying to ensure the hated tax doesn't come to other cash - strapped cities.
Asking local Real
Estate associations to
lobby this upwards through OREA and into CREA may prove more fruitful than placing questions and comments on this website, something I have already
done.