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In Real Estate Industry, Remembering a Year Worth Forgetting (New York Times) - Even the hardiest members of New York City ’s real estate industry acknowledge that 2009 was a year of startling casualties.

New Year's resolutions: South coast real estate (Orange County Register) - Local experts weigh in on what they would like to see in the coming year for real estate in Laguna Beach, Dana Point and San Clemente.

Amid the real estate bust, land preservation is booming (Chattanooga Times Free Press) - From the Florida Everglades to the bluffs overlooking the Deschutes River in Oregon, conservationists are snapping up prime property for preservation, often at a fraction of what the asking price was at the real estate market’s height.

Alabama real estate agents form group (Montgomery Advertiser) - A group of 44 real estate agents have formed the Alabama chapter of the Real Estate Land Institute.

GTA real estate winners and losers (Toronto Star) - A warm front continues to blow across the GTA housing market, taking much of the chill out of recessionary real estate shivers of the past year.

Real Estate’s Real Issues (Los Angeles Downtown News) - DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - With credit still hard to attain, high unemployment and consumers short on disposable income, real estate will be a tough game in 2010. But Downtown watchers will have plenty of trends to eye this year.

Coldwell Banker ranks tops in real estate (The Progress) - CALDWELL – Coldwell Banker Real Estate ranked highest among real estate companies in satisfying home sellers according to J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Home Buyer/Seller StudySM.

China Property Bubble May Lead to U.S.-Style Real Estate Slump (Bloomberg) - Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Li Nan has real estate fever. A 27- year-old steel trader at China Minmetals, a state-owned commodities company, Li lives with his parents in a cramped 700- square-foot apartment in west Beijing .

Top ten real estate stories of 2009 (Vi?t Nam News) - (01-01-2010) Viet Nam’s real estate sector has had a good year, despite the global economic downturn. Experts said the property and stock markets, as well as the banking and finance sector had been profitable but were vulnerable to global economic changes.

Tampa Bay real estate market took its medicine in 2009 (St. Petersburg Times) - Year-in-review columns have been treating 2009 as if it were toxic. Let's take a different approach as we examine the year in Tampa Bay real estate. The housing market forced down some nasty medicine. Is that a bad thing? No, it is not.