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Worker Mobility Key in Corporate Real Estate Management (Commercial Property News) - "Maximizing office utilization and creating a shared work environment is about selling mobility to employees, and you can't just take something away--office space--without offering employees something in return," said Charemon Tovar, national portfolio strategy manager of Sprint Nextel's enterprise real estate division this week to a full room at the October luncheon meeting of the Chicago

Consumer Spending, Real Estate and the Economy (GoldSeek.com) - A reader recently sent me an interesting chart that compared the housing industry to the S&P 500 stock index. It clearly showed an incredible correlation between real estate and stocks, and it was so amazing that I got the raw data and plotted the chart myself just to make sure it was real.

FTC: Real-estate services froze out rivals (Seattle Times) - The Federal Trade Commission has taken enforcement action against seven real-estate listing services in six states, claiming the groups...

Fieldsboro hires firm to revalue real estate (phillyburbs.com) - The Borough Council has hired an outside firm to revalue its taxable real estate next year, as part of an agreement with the borough's largest industry, the Stepan Co. chemical plant.

County starts crack down on real estate signs (Santa Cruz Sentinel) - RIO DEL MAR — Time's up for real estate agents who haven't been playing by the county's new rules on "for sale" signs. A sign sweep was launched Friday.

Real Estate Groups Settle FTC Complaint (Washington Post) - The Federal Trade Commission yesterday said groups representing thousands of real estate agents in five states have agreed to drop practices that hampered rival discount brokers from posting home-sale listings on Internet sites.

Real estate 'crash' likely is a fender bender (Baltimore Sun) - With all the dismal reports about the home real estate market, don't lose track of something critically important: Mortgage interest rates have been falling quietly but steadily for weeks, and are now just above their lowest level in half a year, barely a percentage point above 40-year lows.

Commercial real estate office cuts back (Nevada Appeal) - Office hours at the Grubb & Ellis commercial real estate were cut back and some services were transferred to the Reno office, an agent with the Carson City office said Friday.

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Man sentenced in real-estate agent shooting (Daily Bulletin) - POMONA - A Diamond Bar man was sentenced to a year in jail and five years of probation Friday for shooting a real estate agent he mistakenly took for an assailant.