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VCFs, FVCIs line up for real estate sector (FE via Yahoo! India News) - The real estate sector has hogged the limelight among preferred investment avenues for a host of venture capital funds (VCFs) and foreign venture capital investors (FVCI) during the last fiscal.

Real Estate Blogs As An Internet Marketing Strategy (Turks.US) - Many real estate agents are now putting up their own blogs to market their business. In truth, the competition on the real estate market is quite strict as more and more companies rise up to meet the others head on.

Ras Al Khaimah Real Estate and Investment Show opens (Khaleej Times) - RAS AL KHAIMAH — Shaikh Ahmed bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Chairman of Ras Al Khaimah Customs and Ports Department, inaugurated the second Ras Al Khaimah Real Estate & Investment Show (RAK REIS) at the Ras Al Khaimah Exhibition Centre yesterday.

DOF backs bill on regulatory framework for real estate investment firms (Philippine Star via Yahoo! Philippines News) - The Department of Finance (DOF) is backing a bill that seeks to provide the regulatory framework for real estate investment companies but expressed some reservations on some provisions of the proposed measure.

VCFs, FVCIs line up for real estate sector (Express India) - The real estate sector has hogged the limelight among preferred investment avenues for a host of VCFs and FVCI during the last fiscal.

Real estate agents can share burden in housing downturn (The Tennessean) - I had my home priced under the market price and recently took it away from the brokers so I could lower the price even more. Why? Well, I have a beautiful, wonderfully priced home and did not get any offers. In this period of downturn in the real estate market, each week we are told, "Price your house under the market value or pull it off the market."

Ex-prosecutor pleads to real estate theft (The Philadelphia Inquirer) - A former Bucks County prosecutor who went to jail 10 years ago for embezzling real estate settlement fees admitted in court yesterday that he had used his job as a mortgage broker to steal from clients again.

Real estate consultant told to turn himself in (Las Vegas Review-Journal) - Real estate consultant Donald Davidson, who was convicted earlier this year of wire fraud and conspiring to commit wire fraud, was ordered to surrender himself to a federal prison by noon May 30.

Investors Real Estate sets quarterly dividend of 16.85 cents (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Investors Real Estate Trust said Thursday its board declared a regular quarterly dividend of 16.85 cents. The real estate investment trust said the dividend is payable July 1 to shareholders of record June 16.

Another conviction of Sunnyvale man in real estate scheme (San Jose Mercury News) - In a closing chapter of a long, drawn-out legal case, a 49-year-old ex-real estate agent from Sunnyvale will likely end up with a longer sentence for engineering a real estate scam.