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Asian-American real estate groups join forces (San Diego Daily Transcript via Yahoo! News) - The Asian Real Estate Association of America announced Friday that it has joined in a partnership with four of the leading local Asian real estate associations in the country to close the Asian American homeownership gap.

Claims Darwin real estate boom won't last five years (ABC via Yahoo! Australia & NZ Finance) - A consumer advocate is questioning predictions that Darwin's real estate market will continue to boom for the next five years.

Real Estate People & Places: 2/11/06 (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Coldwell Banker Real Estate has hired four new agents.

Post-hurricanes, New Orleans real estate turns into mushy gold rush (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Real estate markets across the United States are hot, cold or lukewarm. In hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, it's just a soggy mess. Not that it's all bad.

Claims Darwin real estate boom won't last five years (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - A consumer advocate is questioning predictions that Darwin's real estate market will continue to boom for the next five years. The Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA) says the city's property prices grew 31 per cent last year.

Where to find hype-free real estate listings (Stamford Advocate) - Whether you're a first-time home buyer, an investor, vacation property buyer, historic preservation buff - or even looking for a boat to convert into a live-aboard residence - you are not shopping the market to the max unless you check out the federal government's best real estate resources: The combined property disposition program inventories of 10 agencies, all rolled into one online access

Asian Real Estate Professionals Join Forces as Five Trade Associations Form Alliance (Real Estate News) - RISMEDIA, Feb. 13 — The Asian Real Estate Association of America announced today that it has achieved a historic partnership with four of the leading local Asian real estate associations in the country to close the Asian American homeownership gap.

Winfield real estate firm joins with Prudential (BizJournals) - Albright Real Estate, an independent commercial and residential real estate firm located in Winfield, has become an affiliate of Prudential Real Estate Affiliates Inc.

PERS fund gets boost from real estate, buyouts (KATU) - PORTLAND, Ore. - Driven by gains from real estate and buyout firms, the Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund returned 13.48 percent in 2005. Pension managers said that was better than 92 percent of public pension funds with assets of more than $10 billion.

TimberWest looks to real estate to help business, meet cash distributions (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News) - VANCOUVER (CP) - TimberWest Forest Corp. (TSX:TWF.UN) will look to real estate sales to supplement its operations and help meet cash requirements for distributions in 2006, CEO Paul McElligott told analysts Thursday.