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Real Estate Weekly -- Jan. 11 (Market Watch) - A home office or computer room is becoming a must for many homeowners, according to a recent survey of real estate agents.

Provident to take $30M hit on real estate market troubles (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - Provident Bankshares said Friday that it will write down the value of a block of securities tied to the real estate market and increase its provision for loan losses, moves that will lower the bank's fourth-quarter earnings by $31 million, or roughly $1 per share.

Real Estate People & Places (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Real estate news in brief.

Real Estate Live (Washington Post) - Welcome to Real Estate Live, an online discussion of the Washington area housing market with Post Real Estate editor Maryann Haggerty.

Guilty child porn plea for LI real estate broker (Newsday) - A Southampton real estate broker pleaded guilty Friday in federal court to receiving child pornography.

Hamptons Real Estate Agent Pleads Guilty In Child Porn Case (WNBC) - A former Hamptons real estate agent pleaded guilty Friday to child pornography charges, admitting he downloaded images of children -- some younger than 10 -- engaging in sex acts.

Taking a chance in Belarus's real estate market (International Herald Tribune) - Belarus is the last Stalinist-era, centrally planned economy in Europe but a small and hearty group of Western investors are starting to probe the former Soviet Republic, seeing it as the last all-but-untouched real estate market in Europe.

Autopsy results awaited in Palm Desert real estate agent's death (The Desert Sun) - Results from an autopsy performed Friday on a Coachella Valley real estate agent have not yet been released. The Desert Sun has made repeated calls to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department and Coroner today, but the calls have not been returned.

Yahoo Adds Franchisors, Brokers To Online Real Estate Service (TechWeb via Yahoo! News) - The largest franchisors to join Yahoo are Prudential Real Estate Affiliates and Realogy, which includes Century 21, Coldwell Banker, and Sotheby's International Realty.

Top ten Campbell County real estate transfers (Community Press & Recorder) - The Campbell County real estate transfers this week are topped off, in terms of price, by the public library's purchase of land in Alexandria for a new branch.