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Real Estate Search helps you scope out properties for sale (Macworld.com via Yahoo! News) - Realtor.com, the Website of the National Association of Realtors, has released Real Estate Search, a free app that will help you buy and sell residential properties.

Picking the sweet spot in real estate (CNN Money) - First the housing market tanked, eventually sending home prices down 30% from their 2006 peak. Then came warnings that commercial real estate would be the next shoe to drop -- and that the problems could dwarf those in the residential market.

OC Housewives: Hottest ‘09 real estate tales (Orange County Register) - The “Real Housewives of Orange County” and their real estate antics were the hottest housing stories of 2009.

China Tells Banks To Stop Paying Fees To Real-Estate Agents (Nasdaq) - SHANGHAI -(Dow Jones)- China has told banks to stop giving commissions to real-estate agents for introducing mortgage customers, on growing concerns that competition for borrowers has led to less stringent lending practices and surging property prices.

Commercial real estate poised for rebound (Deseret News) - It may sound like a broken record to say 2009 was a tough year in virtually every sector of the Utah real estate market, but...

Real Estate Search Helps You Scope out Properties for Sale (PC World) - Realtor.com, the Website of the National Association of Realtors, has released Real Estate Search, a free app that will help you buy and sell residential...

Fastfood, real-estate businesses boost Alliance Global's profits (GMA News) - Alliance Global Group Inc. (AGGI) said on Thursday that consolidated net income for the first half grew by nearly a third on higher revenues from its real-estate, brandy, and fastfood businesses.

Commercial real estate demand rebounds: report (People's Daily) - Data from the fourth quarter of last year compiled by real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle shows a strong rebound in commercial property demand across Beijing. Office space demand grew and leasing activity was high in the fourth quarter, with net absorption of 93,600 square meters. China's overall office market stabilized in the fourth quarter, as did Beijing's, as rental prices in major Chinese ...

Poly Real Estate 2009 Contracted Sales Rose 141% (Bloomberg) - Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Poly Real Estate Group Co. said its contracted sales for 2009 rose 141 percent to 43.4 billion yuan. December contracted sales were 3 billion yuan, the company said in a statement to the Shanghai stock exchange today, without giving a comparative figure.

City to sue Nigeria over unpaid real estate taxes (New York Post) - The city has filed a federal lawsuit in Manhattan against the Nigerian government, claiming that the African nation failed to pay real estate taxes, officials announced today. The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court, claims that the Nigerian government failed to pay taxes for commercial offices and other non-tax exempt...