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Xinyuan Real Estate Shares Rise in Debut (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Shares of Xinyuan Real Estate Co., which develops real estate in China, gained in their debut on Wednesday after the company's initial public offering of American Depositary Shares priced at the midpoint of expectations.

Scripps Builds On HGTV With Real Estate Site FrontDoor (paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance) - As part of continuing efforts to expand its online market share, Scripps Networks' interactive group is rolling out its first original web product, real estate site FrontDoor.com. The site, currently in beta and expected to go live next month, will use Scripps's vast video archive of home-related content from its HGTV and DIY cable nets and online properties.  Release

Red Fort Capital To Launch Rs. 800 Cr. Real Estate Fund (Nasdaq) - (RTTNews) - Thursday, the media reported that Red Fort Capital, an international private equity real estate firm, proposed to launch a Rs. 800 crore domestic real estate fund in early 2008.

Real estate site will compete with Zillow (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) - Newspaper and cable TV giant E.W. Scripps' Knoxville, Tenn., unit, Scripps Networks, is unveiling an online real estate service called FrontDoor that is attempting to leverage content from its HGTV cable channel.

Arcandor Sells Remaining Real Estate Stake for EU800 Million (Bloomberg.com) - Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Arcandor AG, Germany's largest department-store owner, sold the remaining stake in its property holdings to Deutsche Bank AG's RREEF Real Estate, Pirelli & C. Real Estate SpA and Borletti Group.

German Stocks Climb; Bayer, Postbank, Hypo Real Estate Advance (Bloomberg.com) - Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Germany's DAX Index advanced, led by Bayer AG, the country's biggest drugmaker, Deutsche Postbank AG, and Hypo Real Estate Holding AG.

Xinyuan Real Estate's IPO Prices at $14 (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Shares of Xinyuan Real Estate Co., which develops real estate in China, will begin trading Wednesday after the company's initial public offering priced at $14 per American Depositary Share, the midpoint of expectations.

VSB announces Real Estate major, minor (The Villanovan) - Villanova will formally open the Daniel M. DiLella Center for Real Estate in April of 2008. In a Nov. 30 e-mail to the Villanova School of Business community, VSB Dean James Danko announced the creation of Villanova's real estate program.

Cosgrove: Real Estate Agents Bill (Scoop.co.nz) - Real Estate Agents Bill First Reading Speech Hon Clayton Cosgrove Associate Minister of Justice December 2007

For Gurgaon real estate agents, a gun is a must (IBN via Yahoo! India News) - It has got all the trappings of a big city but scratch a little deeper and you realise Gurgaon still obeys the law of the jungle. The ongoing property boom and the predominance of small real estate operators have made Gurgaon top the state of Haryana in the total number of applications for arms licenses.