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Brooklyn Real Estate Investor Wins TurboTax TaxRap Contest (SmartPros Accounting) - April 18, 2007 (SmartPros) Taxes usually get a bad rap. But for Christian Pulfer, a 28-year-old real estate investor from Brooklyn, N.Y., rapping about taxes paid off to the tune of $25,000.

Real estate agent hired (The Republican) - PALMER - Carlson GMAC Real Estate recently announced that Regina Ryan has joined the firm's Palmer office as a sales agent. Ryan was a longtime resident of Springfield and has lived in Brimfield for the past 10 years. She formerly worked at Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Wilbraham.

Attorneys for an Enid real estate appraiser plan to appeal ruling to revoke their client’s license (The Enid News & Eagle) - Attorneys for an Enid real estate appraiser say they will appeal a recent Oklahoma Real Estate Appraiser Board decision to revoke his license. “We are in the process of filing an appeal,” said Enid attorney Michael Roberts.

Diversify an IRA with real estate (Bankrate.com via Yahoo! Finance) - A self-directed IRA allows the owner to invest in real estate, but the rules and risks are many.

I-NEWS ONLY: Florida In A Real Estate Dive (WPLG Click10.com via Yahoo! News) - It wasn't long ago that buying and flipping were the two words heard most in Florida real estate circles.

Real estate agent says potential commission had nothing to do with efforts to sell Stockdale home (Asbury Park Press) - Real estate agent John Clapp said a potential commission he might receive for the sale of Madeleine Stockdale's house in Spring Lake had no connection to his efforts to settle her estate soon after Stockdale died in April 2000. "I did what I thought was right" when contacting a lawyer and a newspaper reporter after learning about the existence of two, competing Stockdale wills, Clapp said. He ...

Will Loan Delinquencies Also Rise Over the Next Few Years in the Commercial Real Estate Sector? (Multi-Housing News) - APRIL 17, 2007 -- New York -- The default rates for commercial real estate mortgages may be set to increase in the next few years, said an industry economist.

Affordable Residential to sell real estate unit (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News) - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Affordable Residential Communities Inc. said on Tuesday it would leave the real estate business and sell its manufactured home community arm, which represents the bulk of its assets, to hedge fund Farallon Capital Management LLC for about $1.8 billion in cash and assumed debt.

New, leading Nordic commercial real estate advisor formed:Glitnir Property Group and Leimdörfer create leading Nordic ... (Finanztreff.de) - Stockholm/Oslo/Reykjavik - 17 April 2007 - The leading Nordic commercial real estate adviser, Glitnir Property Holding, is created through the combination of the Norwegian Glitnir Property Group (the parent company of Glitnir Næringsmegling AS, Glitnir Real Estate AS and UNION Eiendomskapital AS, former UNION GRUPPEN) based in Oslo and the Swedish real estate adviser Leimdörfer with offices in ...

Grupo Lar Plans EUR700 Million Mexico Real Estate Investment In '07 (Nasdaq) - MEXICO CITY -(Dow Jones)- Spanish real estate developer Grupo Lar said Tuesday it plans to invest 700 million euros ($950 million) in Mexico this year.