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Real-estate leader steps down to start business (The Arizona Republic) - Pete Bolton, the public face of CB Richard Ellis' Phoenix operations for the last eight years, is leaving his post at the commercial real estate brokerage firm effective immediately to pursue his own consulting business.

Lower Paxton supervisors increase real estate taxes 25 percent (The Patriot-News) - In their first increase since 1990, Lower Paxton Twp. supervisors raised real estate taxes by 25 percent Tuesday night. Because the board decreased the real estate tax three times in the past several years, the new increase restores taxes to the 2004 rate, township officials said.

Disbarred Clearwater Lawyer Admits To Real Estate Scam (The Tampa Tribune) - TAMPA A - disbarred Clearwater lawyer pleaded guilty this morning to conspiracy and wire fraud, admitting he stole millions in a real estate scheme. Graham Kligerman, 33, was disbarred two years ago. When his law practice was failing, according to court documents and a federal prosecutor, he diverted money from the real estate scheme to himself and his law practice clients.

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Quebec looks to modernize real estate brokerage regs (Investment Executive) - The Quebec government is proposing new regulation for the real estate brokerage industry. The Minister of Finance, Monique Jérôme-Forget, tabled a bill is designed to replace the existing legislation by modernizing real estate brokerage regulation.

Real Estate Institute Welcomes Date Extension (Scoop.co.nz) - The extension of the submission deadline on the Real Estate Agents Bill to the end of February was today welcomed by the Real Estate Institute.

Houses worth EUR 7.5 M sold in Timon Real-estate Fair (Nine O'Clock) - The value of housing acquisition contracts that have been signed in the Timon Real-estate Fair organized last week in Bucharest totals EUR 7.5 M, according to the preliminary data announced by the fair’s organizers, Mediafax informs.

BlackWidowNetwork.com: Real Estate Investors ... Strike Fast! (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - LACONIA, N.H.----Get out the bug spray folks, there's a new spider in town! Exploding on the real estate investing scene, Black Widow Network is the first of its kind to seamlessly combine the power of social networking with leading-edge Internet technologies allowing their members to view, post and send investment deals to their "webs" in minutes, not days.

Akruti Nirman to be renamed, eyes larger real estate projects (Indian Express Finance via Yahoo! India News) - Akruti Nirman, a BSE listed real estate company, is in for an image makeover. The promoters of the company are in the process of renaming and recreating its identity as Akruti City, apart from coming up with a new logo through a month long advertising campaign, expected to commence by December-end 2007. Hemant Shah, chairman, Akruti Nirman said, We will soon replace Nirman with City and formally ...

Delek Real Estate to float Vitania at $150-180m value (Globes Online) - Vitania is involved in real estate developments in Israel, Eastern Europe and Russia worth about $1.5 billion.