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Bankruptcy filing may send fate of Brauss' real estate empire to federal court (Dallas Morning News) - The fate of much of Eric and Christine Brauss' real estate empire could be headed to federal bankruptcy court because one of her companies filed for Chapter 11 reorganization last weekend.

Calpers Real-Estate Holdings Decline 30% During First Quarter (Bloomberg) - Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest state-run U.S. public pension, saw the value of first-quarter real estate holdings decline 30 percent and is terminating contracts with some investment firms behind the loss, a consultant for the fund said.

Top Real Estate Equity Funds (Zacks.com via Yahoo! Finance) - Dryden Global Real Estate A , AllianceBernstein Real Est Iv Adv and Forward Select Income A are three of the top-performing real estate equity funds.

Real estate agent accused of molestation slain (San Francisco Chronicle) - A man found shot to death in his Alameda home last week was a 40-year-old real estate agent who had been facing child molestation charges, police said Tuesday. The body of Darin Gregory Vinall was found Dec. 2 in his townhouse on the 100 block of Parfait...

Real estate investors pick China over Singapore (The Malaysian Insider) - SINGAPORE, Dec 9 — Singapore’s popularity as one of Asia’s top real estate investment destinations has slipped, according to a new survey of institutional investors by the Urban Land Institute and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The report put the Republic in fifth place in the latest rankings of Asia-Pacific cities with the best property investment prospects. It came in second the last time. The ...

Real Estate Industry not sold on sign regulations (KFDA-TV Amarillo) - Amarillo, Texas - The local real estate industry is speaking out over potential changes to sign regulations.

Real estate investors pick China over S'pore (AsiaOne) - SINGAPORE'S popularity as one of Asia's top real estate investment destinations has slipped, according to a new survey of institutional investors by the Urban Land Institute and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

Real estate company signs sponsor deal to give space to Olympic organizers (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada Sports) - VANCOUVER, B.C. - Space is the new frontier for Olympic sponsorship - real estate space that is.

Dallas real estate giant Henry S. Miller Jr. dies (Dallas Morning News) - FILE 1988/DMN Henry S. Miller Jr., with son Henry III, at Highland Park Village. Miller's company owned the shopping center for three decades and brought in ritzier tenants.Henry S. Miller Jr., who turned a one-man Dallas property sales office into one of the country's largest real estate companies, died Saturday after a brief illness. He was 95.

Yitzhak Tshuva floating Canadian real estate company in Tel Aviv (Haaretz Daily) - It seems that Yitzhak Tshuva will be floating the Canadian arm of his private company Elad Group in Tel Aviv. The real estate and energy magnate was in Miami yesterday, discussing Elad's business plan for 2010 with senior company executives.