Real estate veteran Joe Helm dies in car crash (BizJournals)

Real estate veteran Joe Helm dies in car crash (BizJournals)
Joseph Helm Jr., a veteran commercial real estate broker and president of The Helm Co., died Sunday night in a single car crash on River Road.

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

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.

The 6 percent solution: Who needs a real estate agent? (The Arizona Republic)
Stan and Gloria Wakefield are no fools. They built their three-bedroom house 12 years ago in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., an oceanside resort community dotted with golf courses and picturesque inland waterways. The real estate market in the area, near Jacksonville, took off and the house, overlooking lagoons, rose in value to nearly $1 million. ''This house has appreciated almost obscenely,'' said