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On this episode of Weaver: Beyond The Numbers Podcast, hosts Rob Nowak, Partner, Tax Services at Weaver, and Howard Altshuler, Partner-in-Charge, Real Estate Services at Weaver, discuss climate change and adaptability for the real estate industry. This past year we’ve seen extreme weather events creating stress on buildings, infrastructure and the supply chain. Texas faced…

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On this episode of Weaver: Beyond The Numbers Podcast, hosts Rob Nowak, Partner, Tax Services at Weaver, and Howard Altshuler, Partner-in-Charge, Real Estate Services at Weaver, discuss climate change and adaptability for the real estate industry.

This past year we’ve seen extreme weather events creating stress on buildings, infrastructure and the supply chain. Texas faced unprecedented heavy winter storms, which caused major disruptions for the region. There have been extreme wildfires, and most recently a hurricane caused destruction with flooding and deaths on the Gulf Coast and up the East Coast. “Regardless of your position on climate change, it’s pretty much given that storms and weather events are getting worse and worse,” Altshuler stated.

“We’re building real estate today that’s going to be here for 30, 40, 50, 100 years, so should we be planning for the fact that there can be more extreme weather events, more stresses on real estate, and start to build that into our design and construction,” Altshuler stated.

What will it take to get there? “I would not be surprised if at some point in the near future we saw a tax deduction or tax credit around sustainability of real estate,” Nowak commented.

Listen to learn more about the future of sustainability and adaptability in real estate.

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Howard AltshulerPartner · Real estate, Weaver

Howard Altshuler is a Weaver partner whose work focuses on real estate. On Location Cubed, part of Weaver: Beyond the Numbers, he and Aaron Grisz talk with the people financing, building, valuing and shaping places. His MarketScale catalog moves between the numbers inside an investment and the realities around it: the cost of debt, a shortage of comparable transactions, the tradespeople needed to build, and the infrastructure that makes growth possible. The conversations put specialists’ experience into context for a wider real-estate audience.

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Howard Altshuler
Howard Altshuler

Partner · Real estate

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Howard Altshuler is a Weaver partner whose work focuses on real estate. On Location Cubed, part of Weaver: Beyond the Numbers, he and Aaron Grisz talk with the people financing, building, valuing and shaping places. His MarketScale catalog moves between the numbers inside an investment and the realities around it: the cost of debt, a shortage of comparable transactions, the tradespeople needed to build, and the infrastructure that makes growth possible. The conversations put specialists’ experience into context for a wider real-estate audience.

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Rob Nowak

National Practice Leader, Tax Services

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Rob Nowak, CPA, leads Tax Services nationally at Weaver. He advises businesses and family offices on tax planning, with particular experience in real estate transactions, construction and flow-through entities. His work also covers succession planning and wealth protection for privately owned businesses. He holds a master’s degree in taxation from DePaul University and a bachelor’s degree in accountancy from Northern Illinois University. In Weaver: Beyond the Numbers and Location Cubed, Rob and Howard Altshuler bring specialists into the decisions behind a property: how it is financed, used, assessed and adapted. His MarketScale catalog also includes conversations with Tyler Kern about business-asset depreciation and discussions of the practical consequences of remote work. The original publication dates preserve the context of these historical tax and market conversations.

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