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Alexandria Real Estate Declares Dividend (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. on Thursday announced a regular quarterly dividend of 78 cents per share. The real estate investment trust said it will pay the dividend Jan. 15 to shareholders of record Jan. 2.

Real Estate Weekly -- Dec. 14 (Market Watch) - Data from ForSaleByOwner.com shows that real-estate agents and brokers will collect $55 billion in commissions during 2007. The figure is down substantially from last year's commissions, when they raked in $65 billion, and 2005, when they collected $68 billion.

Philippine real estate giant renames company after Trump threat (AFP via Yahoo! News) - Philippine real estate giant Megaworld Corp changed the name of a project -- originally called "The Trumps" -- after US tycoon and television personality Donald Trump threatened to take them to court, a local business daily said Friday.

U.K. Commercial Real Estate Returns Drop By Record (Update1) (Bloomberg.com) - Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. commercial real estate returns fell by a record amount last month as higher interest rates and a drop in bank lending pushed prices down, according to Investment Property Databank Ltd., a London-based research firm.

Country's real estate slump has minimal impact locally (Newport Daily News) - As real estate prices tumble across the country, Newport County seems to be taking less of a hit. And finding a bargain after the boom period earlier in the decade still may take some digging.

Real estate bond sales to set record (The Japan Times) - Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank AG, and other investment banks are on track to sell a record amount of bonds tied to real estate in Japan, where rising property prices have created a safe haven from... Read more ...

County real estate (The Norman Transcript) - Real Estate Sales of $100,000 and above, as recorded by the office of Cleveland County Clerk, Tammy Howard. Lot 7, Block 8, Kensington Place, Section 3, $142,500. Buyer, Maxwell E. Mishkin. Seller, Summit Quality Homes Inc.

Real estate biggies set up stalls in Dubai to lure NRIs (Indian Express Finance via Yahoo! India News) - The three-day Indian Property Show, which kicked off at Airport Expo in Dubai on Thursday, has attracted all major real estate developers from India, who are showcasing their projects to prospective buyers, mostly NRIs. With over Rs 25,000 crore worth of property on display and over 250 projects from across India to choose from, the expatriates would be spoilt for choice, literally. The show, ...

Forestar Real Estate Group Announces Completion of Credit Facilities (wallstreet:online AG) - Forestar Real Estate Group Inc. (NYSE:FOR) today announced that the company has obtained $440 million