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Real Estate ETF Plays International Segment (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News) - Investors concerned about a slowing U.S. real estate market now have the option to invest in an international real estate ETF.

Red-Hot Real Estate Market Cools Off (CBS News) - Oil prices, scandals and mergers all made news in 2006, but it was the ups and downs of the real estate market that hit American consumers where they live, literally.

Briefing - Asia Real Estate - Dec 22, 2006 (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Asia News) - An executive briefing on real estate for Dec 22, 2006, prepared by Asia Pulse (http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, Asia-based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities.

State Street Beats Wisdom Tree To Punch in Launching First Global Real Estate ETF (SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance) - Matt Hougan submits: State Street Global Advisors [SSgA ] has beaten WisdomTree Investments to the punch by launching the first international real estate exchange-traded fund in the United States.

Treat your real estate investments as if they were your retirement fund (Asheville Citizen-Times) - Many new real estate investors doom their success right from the beginning because they fail to segregate investment funds from their other income. When rental income is commingled with earned income, two things happen, and both are bad.

Funds: Biggest trail the best in U.K. real estate (International Herald Tribune) - For British commercial real estate funds, biggest is not best at the moment.

New Private Money Lending Program to Benefit Real Estate Investors (SYS-CON Media) - Today authors George Antone and Aurora Cortez launched Part I of a series of real estate-related software programs on private money lending (aka hard money lending).

Feds: Real estate boom fuels criminal activity (Las Vegas Business Press) - Massive expansion in the nationwide real estate market during the last few years has unleashed a wave of suspected money laundering, first in the mortgage industry and now in the commercial real estate business, federal authorities reported recently.

Real estate markets softened in 2006, should stabilize in 2007 (Market Watch) - CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- For many residential real-estate markets in the U.S., this year started with an advantage to sellers and ended with buyers holding the upper hand. But, unlike some people had expected, the switch didn't follow the deafening "pop" of a massive real estate bubble.

InterRent Real Estate Investment Trust Announces Acquisition of 153 Apartment Suites (SYS-CON Media) - InterRent Real Estate Investment Trust.,('InterRent'or the 'REIT') (TSX VENTURE: IIP.UN)(FRANKFURT: IBV) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of a 153 suite multi-residential complex in Sarnia, Ontario, a community of 70,000 people. The $7.019 Million ($45,876/suite) purchase price, InterRent's largest single acquisition to date, is being financed by the assumption of existing ...