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First American Flips Real Estate Stocks to Beat Fund Rivals (Bloomberg) - Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- John Wenker and Jay Rosenberg , managers of First American Real Estate Fund , buy and sell stocks more often than their peers, a strategy that helped them outperform 98 percent of rivals in the past decade.

Real Estate Executive Returns to Morgan Stanley (New York Times) - Devin Murphy has returned to Morgan Stanley ’s real estate division five years after he left to run Deutsche Bank ’s real estate investment banking division. Mr. Murphy will serve as a managing director and vice chairman in the investment banking division of the firm.

Real estate firm opens second office in Monroe (East Brunswick Sentinel) - MONROE — With the real estate market of the past few years, it may seem like an unusual time to start up a realty, and perhaps even more unusual to expand it. Charles DiPierro, a lifelong Monroe resident, has done just that.

Harvard economist Edward Glaeser on real estate markets (Money via Yahoo! Finance) - Since the crash, we've gotten used to thinking of real estate as a market shaped by national forces: Interest rates went down, Wall Street and homebuyers went nuts, regulators fell asleep at the switch, and -- voilà -- we had ourselves a bubble.

Clean slate for dodgy real estate agents (Stuff) - Real estate agents fined for dodgy dealings have had their slates wiped clean on a register designed to name and shame land sharks.

IDX Broker Enables Andreassen to Supply his Clients with the Most Comprehensive Real Estate Search on the Web (dBusinessNews.com) - EUGENE, ORE. – IDX, Inc, is more than excited to announce its newest client addition, Kurt Andreassen with Keller Williams realty, to the rapidly expanding network of real estate agents and brokers opting to improve and advance the search functions of their website by incorporating a custom IDX solution.

Real estate broker sees future in making soap (Cebu Daily News) - He had tried different career paths. He was a real estate broker, a casual employee of Customs, and distributor of Lacto Pafi products. Now, Norman N. Saluntao has decided to try his luck in the soap-making business.

Miami Commercial Real Estate Industrial Property Things to Find Out (Turks.US) - Real-estate investing is a rather difficult water to test. Like other commercial ventures, the road to success is laden with pitfalls, financial swamps and business roadblocks you should be sure to avoid.

REAL ESTATE: Los Altos home sells for $2.5 million (Palo Alto Weekly) - A house on W. Edith Avenue in Los Altos sold for $2,541,500 on Nov. 6, 2009. The home previously sold for $575,500 in March 1997. Palo Alto Online's real estate website features a listing of homes sold in Palo Alto and surrounding cities. Visit [http://www.paloaltoonline.com/real_estate/ PaloAltoOnline.com/real_estate] for a map of homes for sale, real estate stories ...

Commercial real estate woes concern Stuart city commissioner (Stuart News) - STUART — City Commissioner Jeff Krauskopf said he’s concerned the downturn in the commercial real estate market will be worse than originally anticipated and cause serious budget problems for the city.