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Choosing a Real Estate Agent (The Motley Fool via Yahoo! News) - How should you go about choosing a real estate broker or agent? Don't just sign up with the one who promises you the highest price for you house -- he or she may not be able to deliver on that, and if you have to lower your asking price, that doesn't look good. Similarly, if you're looking to buy, it pays to choose an agent carefully. Here are a few tips:

Zillow gets licenses to sell real estate (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) - Zillow.com is now a registered real estate broker in the state, but the Seattle Internet company says it only wants to access information so it can improve its home valuation service.

Real Estate Weekly -- Feb. 17 (Market Watch) - Real estate agents and brokers that belong to the National Association of Realtors have a system in place to police themselves for misconduct. You would think those hearing panels would be inundated with consumer complaints alleging various misdeeds. But do you know what those disciplinarians spend most of their time doing? Refereeing fights over commission splits.

N. Va. News Briefs - Real estate tax relief, rent relief available (The Washington Examiner) - The City of Fairfax offers real estate tax and rental assistance for senior citizens and persons with disabilities.

Real estate to see an improvement (Bangkok Post) - A real estate world congress in May and better enforcement of brokerage laws should help improve industry standards this year, according to property specialists.

Waves of New Investors Target European Real Estate Markets (Real Estate News) - RISMEDIA, Feb. 20 — Despite some concern that there may be too much money chasing too few assets, respondents to the third annual Emerging Trends in Real Estate(R) Europe 2006 survey, published by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the Urban Land Institute (ULI), expressed a fundamentally positive outlook.

Commercial Real Estate Acts as Virtual Power Plants in Massachusetts (Commercial Property News) - Commercial real estate owners can now earn additional income by selling energy back to Independent System Operator of New England (ISO-NE), as if they were actual power plants.

Choosing a Real Estate Agent (The Motley Fool) - How should you go about choosing a real estate broker or agent? Don't just sign up with the one who promises you the highest price for you house -- he or she may not be able to deliver on that, and if you have to lower your asking price, that doesn't look good.

Point2 Technologies, Oodle Inc. Cooperate to Publish Real Estate Listings (Real Estate News) - RISMEDIA, Feb. 20 — Point2 Technologies Inc. ("Point2") and Oodle, Inc. ("Oodle") announced that development work on a data feed from Point2Homes.com to Oodle Real Estate has been completed, and that the feed is now live.

GE Commercial Real Estate Buys Three New Shopping Centers is Slovakia (Commercial Property News) - In its first move into smaller, tertiary cities in Slovakia, GE Commercial Real Estate has closed on a new shopping center in Trnava, for €14.2 million ($17 million U.S.) from the developers Euromax and SlovakiaMax, a 100 percent equity deal.