The sun., 1916-10-22
REALTY MEN PLAN
MANY REFORMS
Convention Maps Out Cam
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to BE
Watched-LOwer Taxes
Promised.

Real estate men from practically every
city and tow in the State brought the
annual convention OF the Real Estate
Association Of the state of New York
to a close last night at the Hotel Nassau
at Long Beach In "A burst of enthusiasm.
when Gov. Whitman told them Of the
great betterments he expects to insti-
tute In matters affecting real estate and
taxes II he Is returned to Albany ~
Governor. II was by far the largest and
most successful convention Of real es-
tate men ever held In this state and
marked the beginning Of an aggressive
campaign by all tho realty interests Of
the State to obtain reforms demanded
for many years and AN accounting to
the realty interests on the measures in
PRODUCED at Albany.
BY far the most important feature Of
h convention was the decision to form
a taxpayers bureau at Albany to look
into the merits Of all legislation pro-
posed. Through this bureau IL IL hoped
to prevent the passing Of any bills which
will AFFECT real estate adversely. The
bureau Is to be non-partisan and t. to
propose no legislation on lts own ace
count.
Taxation took up n large part Of the
attention Of the convention and from
the talks the members obtained n good
notion OF somc OF the great changes
which will he necessary In the present
tax system before real estate can cx-
pect TO be relieved from some of It's
burdens.
j. T.. Zoller told the convention that
the method of assessing corporations
In this state must be changed entirely
n foreign corporations are TO pay their
just taxes and New York State cor
porations be assessed equally. He said
indirect taxes might be omitted II al
corporations doing business In this state
were taxed on their incomes instead
OF the value of their property In the
State.
That New York state II getting
| nearer to n proper assessment OF it, COR
porations was the gist Of the talk by
Martin SAKE. lie. too. tried to show the
real estate men that by giving corpora
tions sufficiently high valuations the
state Tax Department was doing It's
! share TO better conditions in real estate.
The problem to license all real estate
brokers was advocated. but little head
way was made. So also "A proposal was
made 20 compel the enforcement Of the
Sunday closing law even to the extent
Of making T. unlawful 10 buy and sell
real estate on Sunday. Many upstate
members were greatly IN favor OF this.
but local real estate men said IL would
mean the %ruination of their business.
For the benefit OF upstate
tee the men who formed .he height and
coming restrictions told 81 their work
and urged other communities TO turn
their attention to such matters before
their cities and towns are forced IL make
restrictions to conserve the values and
health OF their real estate and people.
For the first time increasing the rates
OF real estate brokerage was agltat-d
at the convention. The high cost of liv-
ing and of doing business started the dis
c~u-eion. which soon developed into a Sec
tional matter. Upstate brokers were
inclined 10 favor the proposal. hut wcr.
vigorously opposed by local men. WHO dc.
clared that II any attempt wer. mad" to
obtain more shan I per cen' NJ lora'
sales owners would not deal with
brokers. hu, would act Tor themselves
The matter, however. was referred t. ~
executive committee for further consider,
alton.
one Of the most interesting AN,
n~ounc-3neu.S Of the convention was .ht'
one Manhattan and one Brooklyn It'll
company have agreed ~ lend none
hereafter on titles recorded under IN,
Torrens system,