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Tamweel CEO: Thriving business, rising population to fuel region’s real estate market for next three years (AME Info) - The Middle East will continue to witness a surge in demand for real estate over the next three years, the UAE’s largest provider of real estate finance said at Cityscape Abu Dhabi.

World Real Estate ETF Trades With 75 Names (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News) - Real estate investing is going global for Cohen & Steers.

Harcourts MD appointed to global real estate board (Scoop.co.nz) - 14 May 2008: The Managing Director of Harcourts International, Mike Green, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Chicago-based company Leading Real Estate Companies of the World™, a global real estate network comprised of nearly 700 of the best-known international real estate firms.

Real estate sales down, prices up this year in Shreveport-Bossier (KTBS Shreveport) - While the real estate market is in the dumps in much of the country after so many adjustable-rate mortgages blew up on people, the market situation is stronger in Shreveport-Bossier. Demand for homes has fallen a bit since it peaked in 2005 but Realtor Brad Goslee of Shreveport said the

Forestar Real Estate Group Names Michael Quinley Executive Vice President, Leading Entitlement, Development and ... (wallstreet:online AG) - Forestar Real Estate Group Inc. (NYSE: FOR) today announced that Michael Quinley has joined the company

Real-estate auctions pioneer Chuck McAtee dies at 41 (CNN Money) - Charles (Chuck) McAtee, the founder and CEO of a real-estate company that helped popularize home auctions and pioneered a franchise business around the concept, died Tuesday in a car crash in Santa Maria, Calif. He was 41.

GE Real Estate Funds $960M for 34-Property iStar Portfolio (Commercial Property News) - New York City-based iStar Financial Inc. has taken a single-source $960 million loan against a portfolio of 34 triple-net-leased single-tenant properties. Holliday Fenoglio Fowler L.P. (HFF) arranged the adjustable-rate, interest-only loan through GE Real Estate.

Local real estate offices merge (BizJournals) - Two RE/MAX real estate offices are joining forces.

CGT, real estate tax: decision rests with government (Business Recorder) - ISLAMABAD (May 14 2008): The government will decide whether to levy capital gains tax (CGT) on stock market and real estate business. However, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has suffered a loss of around Rs 15-20 billion due to exemption of CGT on capital market during 2007-08.

Real estate company ordered to stop selling securities (BizJournals) - The Colorado securities commissioner has ordered a Colorado real estate residential development company and its manager to stop selling unregistered securities, officials said Tuesday.