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Real estate market to enjoy a boom in 2008 (Vietnam Net) - VietNamNet Bridge – The personal income taxation, high foreign capital inflow, and the new policy which allows Viet Kieu to purchase houses in Vietnam are all believed to make the real estate market more bustling in 2008.

Overrated Career: Real Estate Agent (US News & World Report) - Because it's an easy field to get into, there's a real estate agent on every corner.

• Registering Your Miami Real Estate The Easy Way (Turks.US) - Home sellers in most areas prefer to be assured that their listing agent and or the real estate company will run ads featuring their home, as newspaper ads run the gamut from photo ads to lots of listings reflected on a page with primarily only copy and most classified ads featuring your home are another tool.

Credit controls cool Shanghai real estate (China Daily) - The once red-hot housing market of Shanghai is losing its luster, as government credit controls begin to bite. Average daily property sales since mid-November have dropped 50 percent from the first half of this year to below 600 apartments, according to the China Real Estate Index System.

Uncertainty influences reduction in real estate risk-taking (Anchorage Daily News) - This is my annual review of the commercial and investment real estate market for this year, with a look ahead to what we can expect in 2008.

Real estate, construction firms pull Europe to weaker close (Market Watch) - LONDON (MarketWatch) -- European shares closed lower Wednesday in another choppy session, with real estate and construction firms pacing the decline amid worries about housing markets in both the Continent and the U.S.

Facing the real estate market (Big Bear Grizzly) - New officers of the Real Estate Board of Big Bear Valley were installed in November and are already hard at work. They took time out from a board meeting for a photo to introduce themselves.

Real estate fund backed by ‘Karamazov Bros.’ raises $130m (KYIV Post) - KDD Group, a top Ukrainian real estate investment and development company backed by well-known twins, often referred to as the Brothers Karamazov, has raised $130 million by floating a nearly 20 percent stake on the London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market.

Worse News About Real Estate Classifieds (Poynter Institute) - Tanking real estate classifieds represent the leading edge of 2007 ad revenue woes at newspapers, and the boom that went bust, especially in Florida and California, gets most of the blame.

County, city officials discuss real estate transfer taxes (Dover Post) - Despite the sluggish real estate market, Kent County and Dover officials say the decline in transfer taxes won’t affect their fiscal year 2008 budgets.