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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.

Ex-NY Gov. Spitzer makes D.C. real estate deal (AP via Yahoo! News) - Disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer is working as a commercial real estate investor and has bought an office building just a block from the site of the infamous encounter with a high-class prostitute that led to his downfall.

Region's commercial real estate attracting investors (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) - The strong position of Pittsburgh's commercial real estate market is attracting local and out-of-town investors.

General Electric Pays Price for Real Estate, Debt Investments (Bloomberg) - March 6 (Bloomberg) -- General Electric Co. Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt is paying the price for his investments in commercial real estate and U.K. property debt.

In Las Vegas, a Break in the Real Estate Action (New York Times) - For the vacation-home market on the Strip, the sky was the real estate limit. Then the economy fell, projects stalled and buyers are looking elsewhere for bargains.

Winnipeg real estate market slips in February (CBC Manitoba) - Winnipeg's real estate market stumbled though its slowest February in six years. According to the Winnipeg Realtors Association, sales nosedived last month, dropping 14 per cent from the same period last year. In all, just 660 units were moved, making it the slowest February since 2003. That was the last year that February sales dipped below 700.

Ex-NY Governor Spitzer is a now a real estate investor (New Kerala) - New York, Mar.6 : Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is back at work as a commercial real estate investor from a Washington office just a block from the Mayflower Hotel room where he hooked up with 22-year-old prostitute Ashley Dupree and, as a result, doomed his career.

Warning to real estate agents (NZCity) - 7 March 2009 Real estate firms are being warned to remember where their loyalties lie after a company's actions cost it $1 million. The Supreme Court fined Premium Real Estate after it sold a home in Caster Bay on the North Shore to a property developer for $2.5 million.

Merkel’s Coalition at Odds Over Means to Seize Hypo Real Estate (Bloomberg) - March 5 (Bloomberg) -- Chancellor Angela Merkel ’s coalition is at odds over ways to gain control of Hypo Real Estate Holding AG just two weeks after agreeing that nationalization of the property lender should only take place as a last resort.

Vince Vaughn engaged to Calgary real estate agent Kyla Weber (Squamish Chief) - CALGARY - It looks like Hollywood actor Vince Vaughn is getting hitched to his Calgary flame. Vaughn, ex-boyfriend of Jennifer Aniston, proposed to real estate agent Kyla Weber, 29.