Category: Real Estate & Construction

We are surely in unprecedented, uncertain times. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted nearly every industry on the planet, including the real estate industry. Janover’s Real Estate team  has compiled our thoughts on the outlook of the market and key ideas you should be thinking about. Cl Read More

The characterization of a real estate entity’s activities as a business or an investment makes a big difference to the bottom line when it comes to taxation. In Conner v. Commissioner, a developer whose plans were derailed by the Great Recession recently learned this lesson the hard way. Bu Read More

Both the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and Congress’s massive new spending package received widespread media coverage, but a couple of provisions that incentivize investments in low income housing have largely gone under the radar. One provision in the tax law offers significant tax breaks f Read More

You certainly couldn’t be blamed if you thought a dentist wouldn’t qualify as a “real estate professional” allowed to deduct rental real estate losses — after all, the IRS thought the same thing. You’d be wrong, though. The U.S. Tax Court found that a dentist who also operated a r Read More

Last week, the IRS issued a safe harbor that allows a taxpayer to treat a rental real estate enterprise as a trade or business solely for purposes of Section 199A, or the 20% deduction. To qualify as a trade or business under this safe harbor, the rental real estate enterprise must satisfy th Read More

Effective immediately, the legislation expands protections against sexual harassment under the NYS Human Rights law to non-employees including independent contractors and subcontractors. Effective July 11, 2018, prohibitions on the use of nondisclosure clauses in settlements or agreements rel Read More

Janover LLC’s Nancy Marinas was recently quoteded in a New York Real Estate Journal article entitled “Women in Real Estate – 2014”. Click here to Read More http://nyrej.com/78785     Read More

  John Lercara of Janover LLC has had an article published in the August 12 – 25, 2014 issue of “The New York Real Estate Journal“. We are extremely proud of John and hope you will read the article. Feel  free to contact John by calling (516) 542-6300, ext. 6867, or em Read More

Shigeru Ban Architects America is proud to announce the New York Times publication of  “Adding Penthouses for Profit”, featuring our new Condominium Design the “Cast Iron House”, located in Tribeca. Please see link to the New York Times article that will go to print this weekend in Read More

Business opportunities and risks are at their peak when it comes to property and structures.  At Janover, we partner with our clients for success and help them gain the expertise to understand the complex and changing financing and tax ramifications found with real estate and construction si Read More