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Real Estate Live (Washington Post) - Post Real Estate editor Maryann Haggerty takes your questions and comments about the local housing market.

Good reads about real estate (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - T he housing boom has spawned a cache of books that might be perfect gifts for the real estate junkie in your life.

Real Estate Weekly -- Dec. 16 (Market Watch) - A roundup of the week's top real-estate news.

Real estate executive gets new trial after convictions set aside (Stamford Advocate) - BOSTON -- A federal judge has thrown out wire and mail fraud convictions against the former chairman of a Newton-based real estate company and ordered a new trial.

Emaar-MGF brings largest FDI in real estate to India (AME Info) - Emaar-MGF Land Private Limited, a joint venture company formed by Emaar Properties PJSC - the world's largest listed real estate company, and MGF Developments Limited of India today announced India's largest FDI in real estate amounting to over half a billion dollars for projects with a capital outlay of US$4 billion (Rs 18,000 crore).

The 10 best real estate books of 2005 (South Coast Today) - At the end of each year, it is my honor to select the 10 best real estate books out of the hundreds of realty books published that year. This article takes 52 weeks to prepare because I read at least one real estate book every week. These are the best of the best 2005 real estate books.

Real estate executive gets new trial after convictions set aside (WPRI 12) - BOSTON A judge has thrown out wire and mail fraud convictions against the former chairman of a Newton-based real estate company, and ordered a new trial.

Real estate industry exceeds 120 bln yuan in 2004: NBS (People's Daily) - Income of the core business of China's real estate enterprises totaled 1.474 trillion yuan (183 billion US dollars) in 2004, with a profit of 122.55 billion yuan, according to the census by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

California real estate brokerage moves in on Tampa (Business Journal of Tampa Bay) - ZipRealty, a real estate brokerage company that uses the Internet to conduct business, will make Tampa its 16th market beginning early next year.

Correction: Donald Trump real estate story (Newsday.com) - NEW YORK (AP) _ In a Dec. 14 story about Donald Trump being sued by three real estate brokers, The Associated Press erroneously identified Barbara Corcoran as a principal of one of the city's major real estate firms.