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Real Estate One receives honor (The Alpena News) - Real estate broker and business owner Lori Stephan might not have imagined the succuss she would encounter when she decided to open Real Estate One almost a year ago. Since the doors of Real Estate One's Alpena location opened May 21, 2007, Stephan's business was named the best new small business in Northeast Michigan by the Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center.

Real Estate News: Advertising Features (The Journal News) - Everybody knows the “housing boom” is over in most parts of the country. But what does that mean for people who are thinking about buying a new home? Slumping real estate markets, known as “buyer’s markets,” give advantage to the buyer.

Real Estate Partners Chattanooga holds Around Town Spring Event (The Chattanoogan) - Great homes are "Springing Up All Around Town" is the theme of the special open house and featured home event held this Sunday by Real Estate Partners Chattanooga LLC.

Google Adds Real Estate Pull-Down Filter To Maps (Search Engine Land) - Google has offered the capacity to search real estate listings for a long time. For example, when entering queries such as "homes for sale in San Francisco," a "one box" result used to show pull-down menus for "location" and "listing type." Activating these boxes would then lead into a specialized "Google Base" screen that allowed for further refinement. I found those screens as recently as ...

Real Estate Briefcase (San Antonio Express-News/KENS 5) - The National Association of Real Estate Editors awarded the Express-News Real Estate section second place in the category of Best Newspaper Real Estate Section, more than 250,000 circulation, at its spring conference in Dallas last week. First place went to the Boston Globe.

Levi Strauss & Co. Appoints PBS Real Estate for U.S. Store Expansion (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - PBS Real Estate today announced that Levi Strauss & Co. has appointed New York-based PBS Real Estate Advisors for its domestic store expansion program.

Real estate agent bound and robbed (Toronto Star) - Police are looking for three men after a real estate agent was bound and robbed in the city's northeast end yesterday.

Toronto real estate agent found bound, blindfolded (CTV.ca) - Police are looking for three suspects after a Toronto real estate agent was bound and blindfolded while meeting with someone posing as a client on Thursday.

Real estate agent assaulted during home invasion (680 News) - Toronto - Police continue to search for three suspects after a Century 21 real estate agent was tied up and assaulted during a home invasion in the city's east-end.

Many Are Leaving the Real Estate Field (New Hampshire Public Radio) - It is not widely publicized, but many professionals have left the real estate industry.