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Defamer Real Estate: Getting Close To Brad Pitt (Defamer) - The Defamer Special Real Estate Correspondent returns not with a walkthrough of an open house offering a glimpse of how the other half lives before upgrading their living quarters, but with an...

Analysis - China's Control Over Real Estate Industry Pays Off (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Asia News) - BEIJING, Feb 28 Asia Pulse - With a series of macro control policies promulgated and implemented in 2005, the trend of overgrowth of investment in China's real estate sectors has been curbed, the overheated demand for houses is cooling down, and the supply and demand relations on real estate market are improving, creating conditions for a stable housing market.

Sticker shock: District real estate assessments jump 22 percent (The Washington Examiner) - When D.C. Council Member Jack Evans opened his real estate assessment notice on Saturday, he was, just for a second, left "breathless." His home value had surged 60 percent.

Growth Watch: Eufaula Sees Real Estate Boom (WTVM 9) - The real estate market continues to boom in cities across the nation, including in some unexpected places. A lot of small towns in our region are seeing major boosts in their housing markets.

Independent Real Estate Firms on the Rise (Real Estate News) - RISMEDIA, Feb. 28 — (KRT) — For 30 years, June McNamara played by the rules of Raleigh's real estate industry, charging 6 percent commission on every home sale she brokered. Then last year, she decided there was a better business model: She created her own real estate firm and started charging 3.9 percent commissions.

ERA Real Estate to open branch in Qurum - Oman (MENAFN) - ERA Real Estate to open branch in Qurum - Oman

New Web Site Shows U.S. Buyers How to Cash-in on Mexico Real Estate (Real Estate News) - RISMEDIA, Feb. 28 — The growth and popularity of Mexico's real estate industry is as hot as a habanero these days compared to a decade ago. So say experts on both sides of the border who just gathered at U.C. San Diego for a world class conference on U.S.-Mexico real estate investment. Values in some Mexican markets have tripled in five years -- far exceeding the rates of return in much of the

NAR: Pittsburgh Condo Deal Puts Banks into Residential Real Estate (Real Estate News) - RISMEDIA, Feb. 28 — In a letter delivered last week to the chief counsel of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the president of the National Association of Realtors® responded to the recent defense by the OCC of its approvals permitting national banks to engage in new real estate and commercial activities.

New real estate chief calls for cuts to red tape (Canberra Times) - The new president of the Real Estate Institute of the ACT, Peter Blackshaw, believes it needs to review the red tape and bureaucracy surrounding the real estate industry.

Longtime local starts real estate business in Carthage (Carthage Press) - Smith Midwest is brand new to Carthage, but real estate is not new to owner Kip Smith. Being a life-long resident of Carthage, this local is excited about his new business.