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BRIEFING - ASIA REAL ESTATE - JAN 15, 2007 (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance) - Standard Chartered has accelerated investments in China's real estate sector by making a strategic investment of US$35 million in Chinese shipping giant COSCO's Sino-Ocean Real Estate Development Co. Ltd. through its investing arm Standard Chartered Private Equity.

Briefing - Asia Real Estate - Jan 15, 2007 (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Asia News) - An executive briefing on real estate for Jan 15, 2007, prepared by Asia Pulse (http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, Asia-based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities.

Real estate firm plans IPO (BizJournals) - Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP, a quietly active and influential real estate investment firm based Downtown, is looking to go public.

Good response for real estate expo (The Peninsula) - DOHA • The second Qatar International Real Estate and Investment Exhibition, one of the region's most important fairs, to be held from May 21 to 24 at the Qatar International Exhibition Centre, has received good response from local, Gulf, Arab and regional companies.

County's business real estate strong (Hernando Today) - BROOKSVILLE — There’s good news and bad news for real estate hawks. The bad news: the residential market reached its peak in 2005.

Value of Abu Dhabi real estate projects exceeds Dh380b (Gulf News) - Abu Dhabi: The value of real estate projects being announced in Abu Dhabi since 2004 has exceeded Dh380 billion, according to market reports.

City takes stock of its real estate (San Diego Union-Tribune) - Jan. 14 (UNION-TRIBUNE): San Diego's real estate division is cleaning house, hoping to make millions on land that has languished for decades. It has started pulling a list of property from its massive portfolio that could be considered surplus and giving public entities first dibs.

City in real estate business: Haverhill hopes to make $360K from land sales (Eagle-Tribune Online) - HAVERHILL - The city is digging deeper into the real estate business, hoping to gain more than $360,000 through the sale of land. To plug budget holes, Haverhill is selling five surplus lots, two of which can fetch a total of $300,000 or more.

Real estate newsmakers (The News-Press) - • Angela Devereux, GRI, E-PRO and ABR, has joined ERA Falcone Realty Group to head a team of real estate sales professionals serving consumers...

Flipping flopped in recent real estate market (Los Angeles Daily News) - We can now stamp R.I.P on the urban legend that flippers churning out quick profits helped drive the late, great residential real estate market boom. Didn't happen.