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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.

Real estate and personal property taxes are due (Moberly Monitor-Index) - Randolph County real estate and personal property tax statements are due by December 31,2005. Taxes become delinquent on January 1, 2006 and interest and penalty are due thereafter. Failure to receive a tax bill does not relieve the liability of the tax due.

Real Estate Executive Gets New Trial After Convictions Set Aside (The Boston Channel) - 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.

Real estate market gets hotter after storm passes (New Orleans Times-Picayune) - November brought a booming residential real estate market to parts of the New Orleans area that escaped Hurricane Katrina-related flooding, with the total value of sales climbing 50 percent over the same month a year ago, figures released Friday by a leading real estate firm show.

Third Islamic Real Estate Finance Middle East conference opens tomorrow (AME Info) - The third installment of the popular conference series - Islamic Real Estate Finance Middle East (IREF ME) - will be inaugurated tomorrow (December 18, 2005) at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Dubai.

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 transactions (The Oklahoman) - Dec 17, 2005: J.R. Fulton & Associates J.R. Fulton & Associates announces the following real estate transactions:

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

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.