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Google, Yahoo Enhance Real Estate Offerings (WebProNews) - One of the most precious commodities in the world is real estate. Everyone is looking for their own little piece of the world to settle and call their own. Home ownership is a goal shared by so many that it seems appropriate that companies like Google and Yahoo would go to such lengths to cater to real estate searchers. Search is evolving. The scope is shifting from the horizontal, all-in-one ...

Real Estate Briefs (Naples Daily News) - A list of real estate related news briefs.

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.

Key points to remember when investing in real estate (Naples Daily News) - Real estate has its market cycles like any type of investment, and lately it’s been getting bad press. Investors may have second thoughts about putting money in this asset class right now, what with all the talk about a bursting housing bubble, the glut of unsold condominiums and homes, declining property values and the growing number of foreclosures.

Real estate brokers save Paper Mill Playhouse (Asbury Park Press) - Two local real estate companies have come to the rescue of the financially struggling Paper Mill Playhouse, one of the Northeast's premier nonprofit theaters, according to a newspaper report. At an emergency board meeting at the theater on Thursday night, Kenneth Thorn, chairman of the theater's board of trustees, said two real estate companies were backing a bank loan that would help the theater ...

Real estate news in brief: Construction rates, sales rates (Naples Daily News) - A list of recent real estate construction rates and sales rates.

Kirt Klaholz, top real estate chief, steps down (Las Vegas Business Press) - Kirt Klaholz, a major force in Southern Nevada real estate, last month retired as regional senior vice president of Stoltz Management. Klaholz, 62, had overseen the firm's local portfolio of office, industrial and flex buildings totaling over 2.1 million square feet.

Local real estate bucks trend and draws students to jobs (Mineral Daily News-Tribune) - Even as experts fret over a dramatic burst of the bulging U.S. real estate bubble that might send prices plunging across the nation, the land and housing values in the Potomac Highlands are defying the trend.

Nina Wang, billionaire in Hong Kong real estate (San Jose Mercury News) - Nina Wang, a pigtailed Hong Kong businesswoman who turned her slain husband's fortune into a real-estate empire that made her one of the world's richest women, has died at age 69. Ms.

Real Estate Guide 2007 (Bankrate.com) - The real estate market was bed-ridden last year but 2007 brings new hope the market will get back on its feet. Home builders are suffering from a frozen construction market, and forecasters say conditions aren't likely to start warming any time soon.