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Real estate alliances forged in HCM City (Vietnam Net) - Bridge – The HCM City’s real estate market has recently been trending towards alliances among local estate traders or between local and foreign real estate traders.

Real estate agents urged to form smart partnerships (The Borneo Post) - KUALA LUMPUR: Local real estate agents have been urged to form smart partnerships with overseas agents to tap the market outside Malaysia, thus encouraging a cross flow of trade between countries.

Real estate people (Asheville Citizen-Times) - Do you have real estate news? Send it to business@citizen-times.com, with "Real Estate People" in the subject line. We will publish items as soon as possible, in the order in which they were received.

Real estate movers happier about 2008 (The Beaver County Times) - The Times/SYLVESTER WASHINGTON Jr. Real estate agent Paula moyer shows Steve and Carol Bitcko through a home in Center Township on Thursday.

Media Pro resells real estate software (AME Info) - Bahrain-based InfoVision Consultants (ICON), a leading provider of real estate property management softwares, has appointed Media Pro Technology as its reseller partner for promoting RealPro and MaxPro series of enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management applications, reported Trade Arabia.

New York Real Estate Company To Develop $150 Million Mixed-Use Property in Detroit (Multi-Housing News) - Detroit--New York-based real estate investment firm Northern Group announced plans Wednesday to build a $150 million residential, retail and entertainment complex with more than 80 apartments in downtown Detroit.

REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS (Bradenton Herald) - Real estate transactions recorded at the Manatee County Courthouse:

Experts forecast year for real estate market (Saint George Spectrum) - St. George has seen an increase in the number of homes on the market, and thus a decrease in prices. But the market may just be “evening itself out” after the real estate craze in 2005, said Vardell Curtis, chief executive officer for the Washington County Board of Realtors.

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.