About 25 years ago a broker friend spent a month in Tokyo and said they were doing it that way. 

Benioff counted four signature towers in London, Paris, Tokyo and San Francisco, with the latter still under construction.

This has less to do with effectiveness of remote work in general, and more with outdated practices for hiring and motivating the right employees who will be successful in that kind environment.Also, a new generation or two of workers that are brought up in an environment where tele-commuting is a real and viable option, will approach it differently than someone who was office-bound for the first few decades of their career - suddenly getting the option to work from home makes if difficult to resist the urge to party til the music stops, as it were.Having lived both in a small town in France, as well as in Tokyo, Japan, I can attest to the fact that cities both large and small can be made extremely livable.

-Being the Fire Chief at the Tokyo fire station at the beginning ofthe Korean War.

I'm a new member currently living in Tokyo, Japan. 

. - When we speak tomorrow, remind me to give you contact for a Japanese real estate attorney I know who's in Tokyo but from Aomori. 

It sure has not been easy doing this from Tokyo.  

Toronto is a world class city and it still consider undervalued compared to other major cities like NY, London Tokyo and Beijing.

I'm currently living in Tokyo with the same aspirations of continuing to invest in the US.

A couple of reasons why commissions may be higher in the US: (1) we have one of the most litigious societies in the world, and need to reserve more money for E & O insurance; and (2) we're also more geographically dispersed - I guarantee that a DFW-area Realtor drives a lot more miles than one in Tokyo or London.Legal cartel?