Sentences with phrase «real estate lobbying groups»

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

the real estate industry's largest lobby groups, Mortgage Professionals Canada, released a report last month analyzing the state of the country's housing market, it found, to absolutely no one's surprise, zero evidence of a bubble that would warrant political intervention.

When one of the real estate industry's largest lobby groups, Mortgage Professionals Canada, released a report last month analyzing the state of the country's housing market, it found, to absolutely no one's surprise, zero evidence of a bubble that would warrant political intervention.

In fact, board members of the Friends of the High Line group and the Real Estate Board of New York have donated a combined $ 370,000 to her campaign and Jamestown has spent more than $ 670,000 lobbying to her and other officials.

(The plan has the backing of the Real Estate Board of New York, the developers» powerful lobbying group.)

The Cuomo administration aggressively interfered when the Commission started asking questions of the Real Estate Board of New York, the powerful trade group that has donated generously to Governor Cuomo, and forbade members from investigating the Committee to Save New York, a lobbying group created to support Cuomo,» Teachout said in a statement.

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

In Albany, where a number of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's policy priorities have succumbed to resistance from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Senate Republicans, documents suggest that de Blasio has turned to the real estate industry's chief lobbying group in New York as an intermediary to press politicians on a matter beyond its traditional scope: the city's public school system.

This would cloak union members who contribute smaller amounts to labor lobbying funds, but would prompt more disclosure by members of the pro-Cuomo Committee to Save New York, a monied coalition of private - sector unions, business and real estate groups.

SL Green founder Stephen Green (brother of former Public Advocate Mark Green) is also a Governor of the Real Estate Board of NY (REBNY), the main lobbying group for landlords.

Though the Real Estate Board of New York, the industry's main lobbying group, has publicly established a working relationship with de Blasio, individual developers and brokers regularly express concerns about the mayor's policies.

Documents suggest that NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has turned to the real estate industry's chief lobbying group, REBNY, as an intermediary to press Albany politicians on a matter beyond its traditional scope: the city's public school system.

When you pull the camera back, it's also a contest between institutional forces,» Lipton wrote as he checked off groups his union battled, such as real estate developers and a statewide business lobby.

The government reform group noted that Lanza since his first run for state Senate in 2006 has accepted at least $ 113,000 in LLC money coming from real estate, lobbying and other interests — including $ 34,000 from Glenwood Management, which were players in the recent legal cases against now former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

«The pro-business majority in the state Senate, comprised of the Republicans, the IDC and Felder, are basically the firing wall» that's protected the real estate industry's interests, said Matthew Engel, president of both the Bronx firm Langsam Property Services and the landlord lobbying group the Community Housing Improvement Program, or CHIP.

The best lobby for all organized Real - Estate is through CREA federal affairs, at least through this group the message gets delivered and is credible.

Lobbied Congress against usurping state authority by enacting federal legislation that would allow the payment of fees by any individuals (except real estate settlement service providers) to affinity groups for the referral of business

CREA and its lobby group (s) should be able to provide the statistics and the comprehensive studies and the public opinion polls to show that consumers are mostly satisfied with the real estate industry as is, and that Ms Atkien's campaign is much ado about nothing.

On another front, a group of Realtors has formed a non-profit association called United Real Estate Agents of Canada (UROC) to lobby CREA and the Ontario Real Estate Association to create a REIT and a pension plan.

«Most states are facing financial crises this year,» says Rob Broome of the Ingram Group, a consulting firm that lobbied on behalf of the Tennessee Association of REALTORS ® in its battle to defeat a bill to boost state revenues by creating a comprehensive tax on services, including those rendered in real estate transactions.