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Real estate notes (Denver Post) - An Illinois real estate development company plans to build a 450,000-square foot power retail center in Gypsum.

Real Estate Briefs: Dec. 17, 2006 (Naples Daily News) - A list of real estate related news briefs.

The Top Reads On Real Estate (Washington Post) - Each week, in addition to writing my Real Estate Mailbag advice column, I read and review at least one new real estate book. At the end of each year, I select the best of those 52.

Real estate news in brief: Construction rates, sales rates (Naples Daily News) - A list of recent real estate construction rates and sales rates.

Website Aims To Demystify Real Estate Fees (KXAN 36 Austin) - Real estate fees can be a frustrating part of the home buying process, but there's a new website that could make that a bit easier. There may be no business transaction as antiquated. You usually don't find out about all the real estate closing costs until you're up against a deadline.

Real Estate Live (Washington Post) - Welcome to Real Estate Live, an online discussion of the Washington area housing market with Post Real Estate editor Maryann Haggerty.

• Collusion on real estate commissions (Turks.US) - Greg Hackman, a Roscoe real estate broker claims that his company went bankrupt when realtors and some of the Rock River Valley’s largest real estate companies intimidated him into increasing his real estate commission to 7 percent.

Real Estate Briefcase (San Antonio Express News) - Coldwell Banker D'Ann Harper Realtors announced the addition of several new real estate associates. In the New Braunfels office at 532 S. Seguin: Marlena Kunakoff and Michael Carl . Kunakoff is a native of San Antonio and attended Texas State University.

Real estate fraud trial under way in N. County (San Diego Union-Tribune) - Dec. 16 (UNION-TRIBUNE): Testimony began this week in a trial in which operators of a North County real estate venture are accused of defrauding investors out of more than $1 million and promising homes that were never built.

Fazio loses real estate license (The Des Moines Register) - Convicted Des Moines-area real estate swindler Leonard Fazio lost his license to sell houses on Friday - three months after he began serving a...