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Wells Fargo real estate unit to buy Secured Capital (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - Wells Fargo & Co. said Wednesday that its real estate investment banking unit, Eastdil Realty LLC, will buy Secure

Wells Fargo real estate unit to buy Secured Capital (San Francisco Business Times) - Wells Fargo & Co. said Wednesday that its real estate investment banking unit, Eastdil Realty LLC, will buy Secured Capital Corp.

Parrots, Chainsaws in High Stakes Real Estate Battle (WPMI 15) - The wild parrots of San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, those colorful birds made famous by a book and movie, may be evicted from towering trees where they like to spend their days, proving that in the cutthroat Bay Area real estate market, even feathered celebrities have it tough.

Real estate firm in hot water (The Mercury) - A HOBART real estate agency yesterday admitted falsely advertising a property as "virtual waterfront". Glendean Investments, trading as PRD Nationwide Eastern Shore, pleaded guilty yesterday to making a false or misleading statement in the advertisement for a Sandford property, east of Hobart.

Analysis: China's Real Estate Sector (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News) - China's real estate sector will grow at an annual rate of not lower than 10 per cent in the coming 15 years even under the macro-control policy, said Huang Yu, vice president of China Indicator Research Institute.

McGuire Real Estate First to Provide High Tech Map-Based Searching for Bay Area Home Buyers ''One Map is Worth a 1000 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - McGuire Real Estate, the San Francisco-based firm specializing in luxury real estate, and RealBird, Inc., the Redwood Ci

Metro seeks buyers for real estate (Financial Times) - Metro, the German retail group, wants to sell parts of its real estate assets likely to be worth than €1bn ($1.2bn), FT Deutschland, the FT's sister paper, has learnt.

Real-estate exec passionate about job (DailyRecord.com) - The job: Jeffrey L. Heller is executive vice president of Trammell Crow Co.'s Florham Park office. He manages a team of commercial real-estate professionals specializing in office, lease and sale transactions for companies locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

Former local real estate agent dead at age 58 (The Huntington Herald-Dispatch) - A member of the Huntington real estate community for more than 20 years, a former two-time Realtor of the Year, Barbara Mathes died Sunday in Duke Medical Center, Durham, N.C.

Emerging Trends in Real Estate(R) 2006: Steady Capital Keeps Markets Stable, But Looming Transition to Less Robust (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - Although a continuous flow of capital has kept the real estate industry stable overall, growth over the next year is lik