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Real estate notes (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) - News, transactions and personnel moves in the real estate industry.

Real Estate Live (Washington Post) - Welcome to Real Estate Live, an online discussion of the Washington area housing market with Post Real Estate editor Maryann Haggerty and author Elizabeth Razzi.

Real estate agent completes designation (Albert Lea Tribune) - Linda Petersen, of Sterling Real Estate in Austin, has completed her GRI designation, which stands for Graduate Realtor Institute. Petersen announces her commitment to excellence and enjoys her knowledge onto perspective home buyers and home sellers.

A roundup of real estate personnel items (Naples Daily News) - Weichert, Realtors - On The Gulf The company has added Realtors Erin Risher and Edmond De Blois to its sales staff. A specialist in residential sales and rentals, relocation and foreclosure properties, Risher serves Collier and Lee counties. She is a member of the Naples Area Board of Realtors. Prior to real estate, she worked in accounts receivable for an accounting firm and personal injury ...

Real estate investors predict more hard times (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) - Unemployment will peak between 10 percent and 12 percent, according to professional real estate investors informally polled this week. "The job market will be the last piece of this to recover," said economist Sam Chandan, one of the panelists at the quarterly meeting of the Real Estate Investment Advisory Council. REIAC members were polled on a number of questions, including where will ...

REAL ESTATE PULSE (The Myrtle Beach Sun News) - A roundup of real estate awards, new employees and new offices along the Grand Strand. Susan Engel has joined RE/MAX Southern Shores. SC Beach Real Estate has opened at 598 U.S. 17 N., North Myrtle Beach in the Gator Hole Plaza. Call 492-4411.

Germany closer to nationalizing Hypo Real Estate (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - The German government moved Friday one step closer to nationalizing ailing commercial lender Hypo Real Estate Holding AG after the lower house of parliament approved a new law that allows expropriating shareholders if necessary.

Decatur's stable real estate market a plus for businesses, according to those at Brinkoetter forum (Herald & Review) - DECATUR - As local companies look to recruit young professionals to the Decatur area, the real estate market continues to be a selling point.

Defined by fractionals, PitCo real estate sales vary in February (Aspen Daily News) - The number of real estate sales were up as much as the dollar volume was down in February in Pitkin County, according to the latest report from Land Title Guarantee Company. Fractional sales, primarily at the Residences at Little Nell and Dancing Bear, once again drove the market. read more

Real estate, personal property taxes due (Papillion Times) - Rich James, Sarpy County Treasurer, reminds taxpayers, paying their own taxes, that the first half of the 2008 real estate and personal property taxes become delinquent April. Property owners received notification of these taxes in December 2008. Payments by mail must be postmarked no later than March 31. Mortgage companies and banks received this information in December 2008 for individuals ...