Real Estate trend: Flat-rate option gains popularity (Springfield Business Journal)

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.

Foreign investors buy 4 tril. yen worth of real estate in Japan (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News)
_ Foreign investors' acquisitions of real estate in Japan over the past several years are estimated at between 3 trillion and 4 trillion yen, industry sources said Tuesday.

As the weather cools commercial real estate may heat up (Westchester County Business Journal)
A soft year so far for Westchester office-space leasing may heat up a bit as the weather cools in the fall and winter, according to some real estate brokers.