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Real Estate Weekly -- Dec. 22 (Market Watch) - A number of real-estate industry professionals and observers believe 2007 should be a year of stabilization for home sales and home prices in many markets. Whether homeowners believe the prediction is another story.

Real Estate People & Places (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Karen Zack has joined Prudential Preferred Realty's North Hills office. She has more than 24 years of sales and real estate experience in existing home sales and new construction.

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.

Family Pools Real Estate in a Bid to Post Bail (RedNova) - By Art Campos, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Dec. 22--The family and girlfriend of a former Placer County sheriff's sergeant charged with murdering his wife have pooled their real estate holdings in an effort to get him out of jail on bail.

Russia's oil-driven real estate boom (Bangkok Post) - St Petersburg _ In a kitchen lit by a bare bulb, where cockroaches roam and the floor is a mosaic of cracked linoleum, Tatyana N Mailyan dreams of real estate riches. The glum conditions are no guide to the true value of her property.

Peter G. Miller: Real estate investing requires an education in your local market (San Antonio Express News) - Q: When investing in real estate (buying and then selling) what types of sales should I be looking for in regards to foreclosures or are there more profitable types of home purchases (or ways to purchase homes) that I have overlooked.

Forbes lists Albuquerque in `top 10' for real estate (Albuquerque Tribune) - Albuquerque's placement on the latest national list comes courtesy of the metro area's resilient real estate market. The Duke City ranked third nationally on a list published Thursday by Fortune magazine listing the "top 10 places to own real estate."

euro adhoc: AIG International Real Estate GmbH & Co. KGaA / other / AIG International Real Estate Announces Real Estate ... (Presseportal) - 22.12.2006 Frankfurt am Main, December 22, 2006 - AIG International Real Estate GmbH & Co. KGaA ("AIRE") announced today that is has invested approximately EUR 26 ...

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.

Richland council holds real-estate tax at 6.5 mills (Lebanon Daily News) - RICHLAND — Borough Council Tuesday night gave final approval to a 2007 budget of $822,101 while holding the real-estate tax at 6.5 mills. The borough has not increased the real-estate tax for 11 years. A mill represents $1 for every $1,000 in assessed property value.