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Talk to the Newsroom: Real Estate Editor Bill Goss (New York Times) - Real Estate Editor Bill Goss is answering questions March 10-14.

Chicago real-estate transfer tax increase would extend to sellers under City Council proposal (Chicago Tribune) - Council plan shares transfer-fee burden Property sellers would bear the burden of an impending jump in Chicago's real estate transfer tax—taking buyers off the hook for the 40 percent increase—under a measure advanced Monday by a City Council committee.

Elmhurst real estate agent shot to death by ex-boyfriend feared for her safety (Chicago Tribune) - Woman granted order of protection, records show An Elmhurst real estate agent fatally shot by a former boyfriend feared for her safety after she discovered that he plotted to destroy the home they shared, court records show.

Real estate cold; real estate TV hot (AP via Yahoo! News) - Real estate may have cooled considerably as an investment, but not real estate television.

Real estate group hosts course (Asheville Citizen-Times) - The Carolinas Real Estate Investors Association is hosting the course "How to Turbo Charge your IRA or Retirement Plan" 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College's main campus.

German Stocks Decline, Led by Hypo Real Estate, ThyssenKrupp (Bloomberg.com) - March 10 (Bloomberg) -- German stocks fell for a third day, led by financial companies, after Hypo Real Estate Holding AG said its profit goal for 2008 is becoming ``more difficult'' to achieve and as investors speculated Bear Stearns Cos. lacks sufficient access to capital.

Harvard to Hold Real Estate Seminar in Hyderabad (Commercial Property News) - Harvard Business School, along with its affiliated India Research Center, has unveiled plans to hold the South Asia Real Estate Seminar in India this summer.

Real estate transfer tax adds to housing woes (Chicago Sun-Times) - Chicago home sellers getting lower prices if they can unload their properties at all in the stone cold housing market have a new headache: the 40 percent increase in the real estate transfer tax tied to the CTA bail-out.

Consumer confidence on UAE's real estate rises (Khaleej Times) - DUBAI - Consumer confidence on the UAE's real-estate industry and infrastructure development has increased, with 52 per cent of those surveyed talking about the availability of more property units while only three per cent say that prices have improved over the last two years.

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