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Real estate: Who's buying now (CNN Money) - Changing American demographics and social norms are altering the real estate landscape: the average home buyer is very different compared with buyers of generations past.

S.Korea's Roh vows tight grip on real estate mkt (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News) - SEOUL, Jan 25 (Reuters) - South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun renewed on Thursday his pledge to keep the real estate market in check and warned against betting the government would back-pedal on its home loans crackdown.

Barry Allen Joins HouseValues as CFO and EVP of Operations; Company Intensifies Focus on Real Estate Customers (SYS-CON Media) - HouseValues Inc. (NASDAQ: SOLD) todayannounced actions to further intensify its focus on real estate agentcustomers and strengthen its leadership team, including the addition ofBarry Allen as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President ofOperations.

Strong Economy Propels Real Estate Giant (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News) - There are two kinds of real estate. There's the kind that's been down in the dumps; that would be on the residential side. And there's the bright-eyed, happy one -- the commercial real estate market.

Other news in Brief: Wells Real Estate Funds, Wilshire Associated, Dow Jones Launch Fund Tracking Real Estate; PREI to ... (Commercial Property News) - Dow Jones Indexes, Wilshire Associates and Wells Real Estate Funds are launching Wells’ newest mutual fund, the first licensed to track the Dow Jones Wilshire Global Real Estate Securities Index.

Dilbeck Real Estate Announces A New And Improved Website Experience (The Acorn) - Dilbeck Realtors announced that it has a new and improved website that helps both buyers and sellers view and compare p r o p e r t i e s - www.dilbeck.com. With more than 70 percent of home buyers searching the Internet to find the perfect home, it has become apparent to Dilbeck Realtors GMAC Real Estate that real estate websites have to be on the leading edge of technology.

TODAY'S REAL ESTATE by Janice Mitchell of Janice Mitchell Real Estate, Inc. (Landmark) - TODAY'S REAL ESTATE by Janice Mitchell of Janice Mitchell Real Estate, Inc. WINTER SALES—MAXIMIZE THE LIGHT EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY Notary Public less room - less taxes? Your youngest child has just left home! Your present house now seems enormous.

Houston real estate market booms in 2006 (BizJournals) - The Houston real estate market continues to differentiate itself from the nation in cornering the market on affordability.

Some risks lie in real-estate investing (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Real estate may be getting cheaper. But homes are always expensive. Like any good knee-jerk contrarian, my enthusiasm for the property market grows as the bad news piles up.

Brazil Real Estate Firm Even Construtora Plans IPO (Nasdaq) - SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Brazilian real estate company Even Construtora e Incorporadora SA is planning an initial public offering of shares on the Brazilian Stock Exchange, or Bovespa, the company said Wednesday in a filing with the Brazilian Securities Commission, or CVM.