Legal Expertise on Tax Incentives & Affordable Housing Opportunities
Rosenberg & Estis, P.C. is New York’s premier real estate law firm, with unmatched experience in navigating the State and City’s complex web of tax incentives and affordable housing opportunities and its respective housing and finance agencies. Successfully navigating New York City’s ever-evolving tax incentive programs and affordable housing requirements demands deep legal knowledge, policy expertise, and an understanding of agency processes. Our Tax Incentives & Affordable Housing Unit combines decades of experience advising on real estate developments across the State and city —from ground-up residential and mixed-use projects to complex conversions and adaptive reuse, and affordable housing finance. We provide strategic counsel to developers, property owners, lenders, investors, architects, engineers, property managers and other stakeholders, ensuring optimal use of economic incentives, zoning requirements and incentives and affordable housing finance programs, while maintaining compliance with regulatory obligations.Our services include:
- Comprehensive planning: We integrate property tax incentives with zoning regulations, financing structures, and ownership models to maximize long-term returns and project viability.
- Eligibility Assessment & Diligence: We identify which as-of-right or discretionary programs and below-market financing programs may apply to your project—whether new construction, conversion, or expansion—and confirm eligibility through careful legal and financial analysis.
- Start to Finish Legal Counsel for the Entire Project: From joint ventures, acquisition, land use and zoning, subdivision and condominium formation, pre-development through acquisition and construction finance closing, construction, lease-up, stabilization, and conversion to permanent financing, we assist with all aspects of a project from start to finish, with an expertise in deal structuring, government negotiations, affordability compliance, wage and hiring mandates, regulatory filings, and securing benefit approvals from NYC and NYS agencies.
Contact Us Rosenberg & Estis, P.C. provides comprehensive legal services to the real estate community, including land use and zoning, affordable housing, tax projections, construction contracts, rent regulatory guidance, DHCR registrations, lease preparation, acquisitions, leasing and financing, litigation and more. We are here to help developers develop their projects, qualify their projects for economic incentives / satisfy regulatory requirements, Moreover, we regularly diligence these issues for potential purchasers and lenders. R&E’s Tax Incentives & Affordable Housing team includes the following:
- Daniel M. Bernstein - Member; Head of Tax Incentives & Affordable Housing Unit; Head of NYC Development Group, Administrative Law Group
- Nicholas DiLorenzo - Member; Tax Incentives & Affordable Housing Unit; NYC Development Group; Administrative Law Group.
- Lisa S. Lim - Member; Transactions Group; NYC Development Group.
- David J. Rosenberg - Counsel; Tax Incentives & Affordable Housing Unit; NYC Development Group.
- David Goldfischer - Associate; Tax Incentives & Affordable Housing Unit; Administrative Law Group.
- Diane Calderone - Paralegal; Tax Incentives & Affordable Housing Unit; Administrative Law Group