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Colliers Arnold handles $76M worth of real estate in February (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - Colliers Arnold Commercial Real Estate Services closed on 32 commercial property leasing and sales transactions worth a total of $76.46 million from Feb. 1 through Feb. 28 in Tampa, Orlando, Clearwater and Fort Myers.

Real estate board sees increase in complaints (Boston Herald) - There's one thing that's definitely on the rise amid the downturn in the real estate market: bad behavior. State real estate regulators are reporting a rise in cases involving serious complaints...

Israel stocks drop for 4th day; real estate slumps, Teva up (Market Watch) - TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Israel stocks closed broadly and sharply lower on Monday with real estate hit hard, only 10 stocks in the TA-100 trading in the green and Teva Pharmaceutical a notable gainer after it was cited in two analyst reports.

Google gets deeper into real estate listings (Ars Technica) - One of the largest realty companies in the US has announced a new partnership with Google and real estate web site Trulia. Will Google become the go-to destination for real estate search? Read More...

Former real estate appraiser sentenced (NewsChannel 10 Amarillo) - OKLAHOMA CITY The U-S Attorney's office says a former real estate appraiser was sentenced to a year in prison today in Oklahoma City for a fraud scheme. Lawrence Goodwin...

Colliers Arnold handles $76M worth of real estate in February (BizJournals) - Colliers Arnold Commercial Real Estate Services closed on 32 commercial property leasing and sales transactions worth a total of $76.46 million from Feb. 1 through Feb. 28 in Tampa, Orlando, Clearwater and Fort Myers. Twenty-six of the transactions were lease agreements covering more than 286,000 square feet.

USAA Real Estate recognized nationally for energy efficiency (BizJournals) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will award USAA Real Estate Co. with its 2007 Energy Star Sustained Excellence Award through the company's development and management of energy-efficient buildings.

HomeGain Re-Launches HomeScout.Com Real Estate Site (RedNova) - HomeGain, a leading provider of online real estate marketing solutions for agents, today announced that it has re-launched HomeScout.com as a newly streamlined real estate website with several popular new features.

Newspaper's real-estate advertising bubble to burst (Crane's Chicago Business) - The newspaper industry's housing bubble is about to burst. For all publishers' myriad problems, real-estate advertising has been a source of uninterrupted growth since the mid-1990s, as a combination of low interest rates and baby-boomer disposable income led to an unprecedented housing boom.

Real estate wrap: Investor finds Voorhees project viable (BizJournals) - Real estate wrap is the Philadelphia Business Journal's weekly list of recent real estate deals. Topping the list this week: The residential component of a $150 million redevelopment of the Voorhees Town Center in Voorhees, N.J., received an investment of $14.5 million.