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US Dollar, stocks and real estate ready to rally as new financial overseers, SEC-CFTC merger (India Daily) - The analytics are compelling. The quantitative models show signs of smart money moving in very fast. The fundamentals now are leaning to the theory. US Dollar, stocks and real estate ready to rally as new financial overseers, SEC-CFTC merger are proposed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

Cooley Godward Forms Latin America Real Estate Group (Law.com) - Cooley Godward Kronish is forming a Latin America real estate group to work with clients seeking to invest in or develop real estate in the region, including the Caribbean. Thomas O'Connor, the firm's current chair for the real estate practice, and Mark W. Lipschutz, of counsel at the firm and the chief executive of the real estate company Caribbean Property Group, will co-head the new team. ...

First homebuyers need help: Real Estate Institute (ABC via Yahoo!7 News) - The Real Estate Institute of South Australia is calling on the State Government to ease tax strain on first homebuyers.

Veranda Park in MetroWest feeling effects of real-estate slump (Orlando Sentinel) - The pace of liens filed against the latest phase of the project has picked up. Kevin Azzouz and his Veranda Partners LLC, developers of the big mixed-use project in MetroWest called Veranda Park, are the latest to show signs of the slumping real-estate market.

Tesco Plans Russian Stores, Real-Estate Companies Say (Update3) (Bloomberg.com) - March 28 (Bloomberg) -- Tesco Plc , Britain's largest supermarket chain, plans to open its first Russian stores as wages and consumer spending surge, three real-estate advisers who have held talks with the retailer in the country said.

Preparations under way to mail real estate tax bills in May (Morris Daily Herald) - Grundy County real estate taxes will be mailed some time in May 2008.

Ag real-estate survey under way (Rapid City Journal) - The Economics Department at South Dakota State University is conducting its annual farm real-estate market survey, which estimates agricultural land values and cash rental rates.

Corona man pleads not guilty in attack on real estate agent (The Press-Enterprise) - A Corona man pleaded not guilty Friday to charges he kidnapped, raped and stabbed a real estate agent who was showing him an empty home in Corona this month.

Powers: Local real estate market 'good, not great' (The Leaf Chronicle) - Prior to his real estate career, Pat Powers worked several years for a local company in route sales where he managed accounts in Tennessee and Kentucky.

Lots of real estate, but few buyers (The Post and Courier) - Real estate broker and cable TV personality Richard C. Davis' much-promoted real estate auction at the Francis Marion Hotel started out on a high note.