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Listings build for real estate firms (International Herald Tribune) - More real estate companies listed their shares for trading in Britain during 2005 than in the previous seven years combined as they raised almost £2 billion to take advantage of investor appetite for property.

S. Florida real estate experts share their views on 2006 (Sun-Sentinel) - Every year at this time, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel polls real estate industry professionals who are experts in different segments of the South Florida real estate market. We ask them to predict what the market will do in the coming year.

Kindred in definitive pact to buy hospital real estate (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - Kindred Healthcare Inc. has reached a definitive agreement to acquire the real estate associated with four long-term acute-care hospitals from Health Care REIT Inc. for about $80 million.

Real estate funds surge, but long-range view cloudy (Asahi.com) - Domestic real estate funds are growing on an unprecedented scale, with some reaching the level of market-leading foreign rivals. Largely because of the nation's ultra-low interest rates, the funds are attracting investors and lenders alike.

SR10 Billion for Real Estate Firm - KSA (MENAFN) - SR10 Billion for Real Estate Firm - KSA

South Shore INSIDER: A couple of team players: Former athletes tackle the commercial real estate market (Patriot Ledger) - Rick Schuhwerk and Katie Krein left their marks on the South Shore hockey and soccer scene. Now they’re putting their stamp on the region’s corporate real estate deals.

Stephane Fitch On Real Estate (Forbes) - The most important factor in real estate in 2006 will be higher mortgage rates.

Real Estate (Jacksonville Daily Record) - Interest rates continue to climb and the national median home price remains on a steady upward trend. Those facets alone should be enough to give area real estate agents and those looking to buy or sell a home in 2006 reason to pause.

LaVilla real estate market waits for courthouse boost (Jacksonville Daily Record) - City Hall’s plans to finally build Duval County’s courthouse in LaVilla should give the area’s real estate a boost, but only if those plans make it off the drawing board, according to a downtown market observer.

China to Continue MacRo-Control Measures for Real Estate Sector (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Asia News) - NANJING, Dec 28 Asia Pulse - China will continue to implement the current policies and measures of intensifying macro control over the real estate sector in 2006, Minister of Construction Wang Guangtao said at the annual national work conference on construction on December 26.