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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.

Kuwait Real Estate, DFM listing (AME Info) - Kuwait's National Real Estate company will start trading on the Dubai Financial Market on February 21, reported agencies. Yesterday the stock was up 1.75% to 1,160 dinars on the Kuwait Stock Exchange and have traded in the range of 830-1,960 dinars this year.

More women buying U.S. real estate (UPI) - BOSTON, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- While some U.S. women postpone buying real estate because they are waiting for Prince Charming, 21 percent have jumped into the housing market.

Women's Drive To Purchase Real Estate Increases (Turks.US) - Women are getting themselves involved in buying real estate these days, although some still hold on and wait for their better-half to make their dream houses come true, survey says that about 21% have already move solo.

Dh500 million real estate company has been launched by Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (AME Info) - As part of its plan to become the premier universal Islamic financial institution, operating in accordance with Shari'a principles, and due to the boom in the real estate sector, ADIB has launched a new real estate company 'Burooj Real Estate' owned entirely by ADIB with a paid up capital of Dh 500 million making it the first real state company of ADIB.

Real estate stays rosy for now, but sanity's en route (Tri-Valley Herald) - Central Valley real estate will continue to be a good investment at least for this year, although appreciation rates will likely decline from record levels of previous years, analysts said this week.

PhillipCapital Enters Japanese Real Estate Market (Press Release Network) - PhillipCapital, an integrated financial services group headquartered in Singapore, announced today the establishment of PhillipCapital Real Estate Japan YK (President, C. Jeffrey Char) to enter the Japanese real estate investment market. [Wired by: PressReleaseNetwork.com]

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, buyouts boost performance of state PERS fund (Corvallis Gazette Times) - PORTLAND — 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.

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