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Two Web sites join Zillow in offering real estate sales (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) - Kirkland-based HouseValues and Emeryville, Calif.-based HomeGain introduced new services Thursday that will allow real estate agents to add for sale listings to select Web sites.

Dimensional Fund Advisors To Launch New Global Real Estate Fund (SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance) - Matt Hougan submits: With the U.S. real estate market teetering, investors are increasingly looking overseas for ways to access the popular real estate asset class. Recently, Northern Trust launched the worlds first global real estate index fund, and global real estate indexes are all-the-rage.

Regulators clamp down on commercial real estate lending (USA Today) - Federal regulators on Wednesday tightened oversight of commercial real estate lending, warning that many banks are carrying a high concentration of such loans. The regulators want to prevent any repeat of the 1980s, when the real estate market plummeted, taking many banks down with it.

Regulators issue final commercial real estate guidance (Orlando Business Journal) - The four federal bank regulators issued long-awaited final guidances Dec. 6 on commercial real estate lending.

Real estate company faces whopper fine (TVNZ) - A leading Auckland real estate company faces a fine of nearly $1 million for misleading and deceptive conduct. Premium Real Estate allegedly sold a North Shore property well below its market value.

Police: Women Targeted Real Estate Agents (WKMG Local6.com via Yahoo! News) - Two women who were apparently pretending to be interested in buying new homes to steal from real estate agents were taken into custody, police said.

Florida Real Estate Agent Amanda Baggett Hits the Highway - Literally - as the Winner of a Beautiful 2006 Porsche (The Auto Channel) - OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 7, 2006 -- Real estate agent Amanda Baggett of northeastern Florida is the winner of the latest high-end luxury car giveaway from a la mode, one of the most mission critical and influential companies in the real estate technology industry, the company announced today.

Texas real estate companies merge, plan Austin expansion (BizJournals) - Fort Worth companies Integra Realty Resources and Real Estate Valuation Consultants Inc. have announced a merger with plans to expand into other Texas markets including Austin.

Watson Real Estate Management buys 400-unit Arbour Apartments (BizJournals) - Watson Real Estate Management Co. bought the 400-unit Arbour Apartments in Orlando from an out-of-state private investment group for an undisclosed amount.

Home sellers, real-estate agents to get free ads on Zillow (Seattle Times) - Beginning today, Zillow will allow homeowners and real-estate agents to advertise for-sale properties on its Web site at no cost. The Seattle-based company, which...