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Real Estate: The state of the bubble (CNN Money) - Rory Moore, semiretired and a self-described "dabbler" in real estate, bought his neighbor's house in Los Banos, Calif. last May for $499,000. Make a few fixes, he figured, and flip it a couple of months later for a six-figure profit.

Blog if you love real estate (CNN Money) - Blogging has hit the real-estate industry...and it just may upend a marketplace known for inefficiency and restricted information.

Real Estate Investing: Yea or Nay? (The Motley Fool via Yahoo! News) - Folks investing in real estate-related securities over the past few years have generally done quite well. As a Wall Street Journal article reported: "The stocks of REITs, companies owning real estate or mortgages that must pay out at least 90% of their taxable income in the form of dividends, delivered total returns (stock-price appreciation plus dividends) of 41% in 2004, up from nearly 37% in

New 2006 commercial real estate forecast shows overall growth in (Wichita Business Journal) - Wichita's office, retail, industrial and multi-housing markets will see an improvement in 2006 over the previous year, according to the 2006 Grubb & Ellis/Martens Commercial Group Commercial Real Estate Forecast released Thursday.

Real estate investments up (Rocky Mountain News) - 7:40 p.m. A record amount of money flowed into commercial real estate investments last year in Denver and across the country.

NBS Real Estate Capital staffs its second fund (The Portland Business Journal) - NBS Real Estate Capital LLC has launched its second real estate investment fund, Morrison Street Fund II L.P., and hired an executive to oversee transactions.

Real Estate market: Excellent 2005, promising 2006 (Deccan Herald) - The year gone by has been an excellent one for the Real Estate fraternity. The last two quarters of 2004, showed increased demand and strengthening of prices.

Home Staging is the hot trend in real estate (The Brampton Guardian) - Home Staging is the hot new trend in the real estate market. Before a house is put up for sale, a professional home stager prepares the home by performing a complete home makeover, designed to sell a home faster and for top dollar.

Gothongs join real estate, launch 1st project (Sun Star) - From shipping lines, the Gothong family in Cebu has decided to venture into the business of building homes. The Gothongs have decided to take advantage of the current demand for residential houses in Cebu and launched yesterday their first real estate project.

Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation Names Finalists of The 'My Home: The American Dream Contest' (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation, in conjunction with Scholastic Professional Magazines' Custom Media Group, today announced the 33 finalists for the "My Home: The American Dream" contest.