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Last week's biggest real estate deals in the Valley (The Arizona Republic) - A CEO of an investment management group, a real estate broker, a real estate investor and a Canadian executive are among the buyers and sellers in this week's priciest homedone deals.

AMB Property hires real estate boss for China (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - AMB Property Corp. said Tuesday it hired Thomas Marquis to oversee its real estate activity in China.

Commercial Real Estate News Digest (San Jose Mercury News) - Realogy to place real estate listings on Google, Trulia.com: Realogy, the New Jersey-based owner of the Century 21, Coldwell Banker and ERA brokers, agreed to place more than 500,000 real estate listings on Google and Trulia.com. The move will broaden the exposure of listings from Realogy companies since more than 58 percent of all Internet searches for ``real estate'' are conducted on Google and ...

What is Causing the California Real Estate Bubble? (SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance) - Paul Kedrosky submits: An interesting new paper tries to figure out causality and proportionality in looking at the various causes of wildly increasing prices in California real estate: The median price of an existing, single family detached home in the state jumped from $241,350 in 2001 to $524,020 in 2005.

American Real Estate 4Q Profit Jumps (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - American Real Estate Partners LP, owner of real estate holdings including condominiums, golf courses and casinos, said Tuesday its fourth-quarter profit surged on hefty gains from the sale of its Atlantic City gaming operations and oil and gas businesses.

Realize Big Returns with Real Estate (Derby Daily Reporter) - (ARA) - It's a buyer's market, which is great news for real estate investors. There are profits to be made just about everywhere you turn these days.

$5M kickstarts real estate center at Baylor (BizJournals) - A $5 million donation from industry heavyweight Gary Keller will fund a new residential real estate research center at Baylor University.

Baylor Opens Research Center to Study Real Estate Buyer-Seller Relationships (Newswise) - The Marketing Department at Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business will be home to a new real estate research center, funded by a generous $5 million donation by Gary Keller, Chairman of Keller Williams Realty.

Real estate listing and advertising system (FreshPatents.com) - In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes receiving real estate listings by submission at a website. Also, the method includes receiving a search query from a user at a user website. Further,

Real Estate Agent Charged with Child Porn (WCBS 880 New York) - A Hamptons real estate agent, arrested on a charge of possessing child pornography, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Tuesday and was ordered held on $250,000 bail, police and prosecutors said. Matthias von Wrede, 34, was arrested following a search of his home on Monday, said Lt. Peter Cilento of the Suffolk County Police.