CHINA'S REAL ESTATE CLIMATE INDEX DOWN 0.29 PCT IN SEPT (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Australia & NZ Finance)

CHINA'S REAL ESTATE CLIMATE INDEX DOWN 0.29 PCT IN SEPT (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Australia & NZ Finance)
Statistics China's real estate climate index fell 3.46 points to stand at 101.57 points in September, an on-year drop of 0.29 per cent, according to a monthly report released here on October 25 by the National Bureau of Statistics.

SPECIAL REPORT: O'Mara on Figuring Out the Corporate Real Estate Puzzle (Commercial Property News)
"Organizations hate making real estate decisions; they hate it more than anything," said Martha O'Mara (pictured), managing director of Boston-based Corporate Portfolio Analytics, earlier this week to a full room at the October luncheon meeting of the Chicago chapter of CoreNet, the national association for corporate real estate executives.

Buyers Need Real Estate Professionals in the Internet Marketplace (Real Estate News)
RISMEDIA, Oct. 26, 2005 The Internet has changed but not diminished the role real estate brokers play in helping buyers close real estate transactions successfully, a former president of the National Association of Realtors told a workshop on competition in the real estate industry sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice s Antitrust Division.

Leading Real Estate Companies of the World Recruits New Member Offices (Real Estate News)
RISMEDIA, Oct. 26, 2005 Leading Real Estate Companies of the World , formerly the RELO network, has recruited 42 new affiliate companies through October of 2005 totaling 267 offices and 4,244 sales associates in 18 states and five other countries. The network has a total of 667 companies with 4,700 offices and 120,000 associates in 24 countries. In 2004, its affiliates participated in 1.4