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International Real Estate: Uncharted Territory (SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance) - Roger Nusbaum submits: The SPDR International Real Estate ETF is down more than 1% today due to a pasting in Spanish property stocks -- a company called Astroc Meditteraneo in particular.

Spanish real estate companies lose ground on valuation fears (Market Watch) - LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Shares of several Spanish real estate companies plunged in Madrid on Tuesday, as a decline from one property company set off worries about the sustainability of valuations throughout the red-hot sector.

Proposed city real estate tax rate advances (The News & Advance) - Lynchburg City Council on Tuesday voted to move ahead with setting next fiscal year's real estate tax rate at $1.05 per $100 of assessed value and cutting the "common goods" fee.

Realize Big Returns with Real Estate (Hope Star) - (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.

Local real estate a mixed bag: Prices still down, but picking up (The Davis Enterprise) - Published Apr 22, 2007 - 00:40:27 CDT. Mixed signals, and trends that aren't all pointing in the same direction - that's what many observers see in the Davis real estate market this spring.

A Sizzling Real Estate Sector Draws Local and International Interest (Knowledge at Wharton) - Las Vegas has nothing on Moscow. The City of Sin is America's hottest urban real-estate market. But prices there pale compared with those in the city that Stalin built. According to at least one consulting firm, Moscow is the most expensive city in the world for expatriates, and soaring real estate prices have largely propelled its rise to the top of the list. The reason is simple: Demand is ...

Bad Real Estate Market Has Locals Auctioning Homes (CBS 4 Miami) - The continued plunge in the real estate market has some South Florida homeowners taking some very drastic measures.

Spanish real estate (Financial Times) - How timely it is to be reminded that dangerously inflated markets do not last forever. In the past few days, Spanish real estate has exhibited all the signs of a bursting bubble.

Real estate firms tying the knot (Stuff) - Two of Wellington's leading real estate firms have linked arms to strengthen their position in the property sales and rental market.

Boom in retail, real estate hits grape exports (The Hindu) - Offshoots Retail sector is taking away skilled manpower. Grape gardens depleting with real-estate activity. Cost of labour almost doubled in one year.