Sentences with phrase «real estate lobby»

REIT executives and real estate lobbying groups say tariffs could put pressure on already rising construction costs.

And REBNY is not the only powerful real estate lobbying group stockpiling cash for the upcoming election.

«NY Real Estate Lobbies Protect Trump Corruption - and GOP Control of State Senate With Help of Cuomo - IDC Dems.»

Barnett also noted that the New York real estate lobby is one of many interest groups shaping state laws.

Litwin also helped bring REBNY and RSA together into a more congruous real estate lobbying bloc, combining forces and bank accounts to tackle real estate policy in Albany and at City Hall, Spinola recalled.

Gerrity said that since ADA issues affect all commercial property types, ICSC would need support from other real estate lobbying groups to effectively push for any significant change to current codes.

The National Association of Realtors, by far the highest - spending real estate lobbying group, on Tuesday announced its final campaign to preserve homeownership incentives and brokerage business benefits in the new tax plan.

The Republican Party in New York is in disarray — registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by two to one — so its main function in the Senate leadership is to block legislation, unless that legislation benefits special interests, particularly the state's powerful real estate lobby.

Ontario's real estate lobby group is warning home buyers that the provincial government may allow cities outside of Toronto to levy their own land transfer taxes, despite the province's assurance that no decision has been made.

Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Canada's largest housing market, and among the most inflated in the world, plunged 32 % in April, compared to a year ago, to 7,792 homes, according to the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB), a real estate lobbying group.

Jeffries blamed the Senate Republicans for blocking any substantive strengthening of the rent laws, accusing them of being a «wholly - owned subsidiary» of the real estate lobby.

Tenant advocates and community organizers today launched a grassroots campaign in the districts of four state senators they believe are «betraying their tenant constituents» and «collaborating with the real estate lobby» to prevent the passage of a bill to repeal vacancy decontrol.

The IDC, in turn, is beholden to the real estate lobby that is the source of so much of its funding.

It goes without saying that the real estate lobby, insurance companies, dying political machines, and hedge funders won't be plying me with gobs of cash anytime soon.

«But many think the real estate lobby would like to see a renewal of the J51 tax program this year.

The idea goes something like this — the real estate lobby wants the tax renewed and, while Senate Republicans want to give it to them, the Assembly Democrats won't pass it unless pro-tenant sweeteners are included.

Cuomo's proposal — agreed to by the trade unions and real estate lobby — only includes condo projects outside Manhattan with 35 units or less.

By virtue of his position, Silver is often the most effective champion tenants have got in Albany against the real estate lobby.

Torres, who says he is progressive about housing issues and tenant rights, and is backed by the pro-tenant Working Families Party, says the money won't make him beholden to the real estate lobby.

The correspondence reflects a close relationship and suggests City Hall and the real estate lobbying group have grown accustomed to collaborating.

With negotiations over the expired 421 - a property tax break making progress, the city's real estate lobby is turning its attention to another longstanding issue: Property tax reform.

Our government, particularly in New York State, is so owned by the real estate lobby.

The real estate lobby and corrupt political machine bought the loyalty of even progressive elected officials.

The real estate lobby will press its agenda in Albany today, calling for the renewal of a major development subsidy program, warning lawmakers not to strengthen rent - control laws and arguing for the renewal of an initiative meant tot spur cleanup of contaminant sites.

«Tenants are always on the defensive in Albany because of the millions of dollars the real estate lobby throws at our politicians every year,» said Michael McKee, Treasurer, Tenants Political Action Committee.

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.

Sheldon Silver, the former speaker of the New York State Assembly and one of the state's most powerful politicians, was convicted Monday in a federal corruption trial that shone a light on the real estate lobby's dealings in Albany.

Instead, the real estate lobby is playing a strategic political game.

«But if they are renewed in their current form, that would be a victory for the real estate lobby.»

The real estate lobby has prominent allies in both parties.

The weak consumer warning that the «negative connotations» provided were perhaps the last protection to fall victim of the real estate lobby prior to the mortgage meltdown.

The real estate lobby has a lot of power in Albany in both houses and on both sides of the aisle.

And the real estate lobby in Washington, D.C., which includes the National Association of Realtors (NAR), the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), and the Mortgage Bankers Association of America (MBA), would like to ensure that you continue to think about housing in a positive light as the nation's housing markets slowly crawl out of the gutter.