Real estate notes (Sun-Sentinel)

Real estate notes (Sun-Sentinel)
>Miami-based Adler Group Inc., a commercial real estate company, has launched the Florida Retail Land Bank, an investment fund that will purchase prime retail land throughout Florida. The Land Bank may invest as much as $60 million over the next three years.

Real estate: When booms go bust... (CNN Money)
Across America, real-estate prices continue to confound the skeptics. Many Americans have come to think of their homes as rock-solid investments with little downside.

Potlatch to convert to real estate investment trust (KXLY-TV Spokane)
A timber and paper products company based in Spokane, says it's converting into a real estate investment trust. The board of directors of Potlatch Corporation approved the change, effective next January first.

Already hot Southeastern real estate market blazes (USA Today)
The exodus of Hurricane Katrina evacuees seeking homes and places to run their businesses is rocking already-hot real estate markets throughout the Southeast.