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Former Beverly Hills appraiser sentenced in real estate fraud ring (Los Angeles Times) - Lila Rizk is ordered to serve three years in federal prison and to pay restitution to lenders that together lost $50 million on loans in the scheme. A former Beverly Hills real estate appraiser was sentenced to three years in federal prison Friday for her role in a multimillion-dollar real estate fraud ring.

Bottom falls out of Plant City real estate market (WTSP-TV Tampa) - PLANT CITY, Florida - When sinkholes swallowed up roadways, driveways, and even some homes, they took Plant City's real estate market with it.

Real estate transactions involving Moore getting a closer look (Knoxville News Sentinel) - Scott Moore paid $600 when he bought a lot on Chestnut Street from the county, and he later passed the property to a county contractor for the same price.But the contractor got a much better price in 2006 after Knoxville's Community Development Corporation exercised its eminent domain powers to take the property - $22,500.The real estate activities of Moore, a former chairman of the Knox County ...

Ruhl & Ruhl honors real estate agents for achievements (Quad-City Times) - Despite the economic climate, Caroline Ruhl said Friday that2009 still was a pretty good year for her real estate company.

Fund Managers Eyeing Modest Real Estate Gains (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News) - Mutual funds specializing in real estate outgained the S&P 500 index by 7 percentage points last year. This year, gains look tougher to get.

Whistler real estate, and trying to gauge the ‘Olympic effect’ (Vancouver Sun) - Let the sales pitch begin. With the 2010 Olympics at Vancouver and Whistler’s doorstep, one local real estate insider has crunched a decade’s-worth of Whistler sales results to make the case that the 2010 Olympics have given the resort’s real estate a boost, and that — despite the recent global recession — property there is still a good investment.

Highly Customizable IDX Broker Provides Consumers with the Most User-Friendly Online Real Estate Search Possible (dBusinessNews.com) - EUGENE, ORE. – The IDX, Inc. team is more than happy to announce its newest client addition The Koehler Bortnick Team's very own Kathy Koehler, to the ever expanding network of real estate professionals choosing to organize and advance the search portion of their websites by integrating the highly customizable IDX Broker software.

Hints of a Rebirth for Commercial Real Estate? (Kiplinger.com) - Investors are taking an interest in commercial real estate, primarily apartment and office buildings. Retail space -- not so much.

Florida Real Estate: People Who Can Assist You In Selling Your Home (Turks.US) - There are things that are easy to do with the help of people who have the expertise on the field that we want to work on. In the field of real estate, there are lots of people that we need to know so we can be sure of any transactions that we might encounter along the way.

Real-estate leaders see good buys in select New York neighborhoods (New York Daily News) - For the first time in two years, top real-estate executives, marketers and salespeople are starting to see strong sales in certain neighborhoods as New Yorkers pull the trigger on home purchases again.