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.

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.

Real Estate trend: Flat-rate option gains popularity (Springfield Business Journal)
The Springfield real estate industry has seen an influx of new agencies in the last few years, led by the so-called discount or fee-based brokerages that offer flat rate closing costs.

Boost to real estate industry seen with NAIA-3 settlement (Manila Bulletin)
The country s real estate industry will dramatically be boosted by the Manila Hotel Corp. s acquisition of the shares of Fraport, SB Airport Investment Inc. and Sojitz Corp. of Japan in the Philippine International Airport Terminals Co. which built the NAIA Terminal 3, and "signal the possible turnaround of the national economy," former Assemblyman Rogelio Quiambao, chairman of the board of the