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Online real estate agents get equality with traditional brokers (USA Today) - The Justice Department gave online real estate brokers and potentially their clients a boost Tuesday by forcing a new industry policy opening access to home listings the agents were previously denied.

Real Estate Live (Washington Post) - Welcome to Real Estate Live, an online discussion of the Washington area housing market with Post Real Estate editor Maryann Haggerty.

Major Players in Real Estate Title Industry Hit by Suits (Law.com) - Four major real estate title and escrow companies face class actions filed for a variety of business practices, including allegedly charging customers for services performed by other companies. The suits also allege that two of the companies are earning interest from pooling clients' funds and steering customers to the companies' own higher-cost subsidiaries for unnecessary services. The new ...

Homex Gains as Morgan Stanley Names It a Top Real Estate Stock (Bloomberg.com) - May 30 (Bloomberg) -- Desarrolladora Homex SAB , Mexico's largest homebuilder, climbed to a record after Morgan Stanley named it one of the top real estate stocks and said investors should buy the shares as mortgage lending grows in the nation.

Federal probe scrutinizing judges' real estate dealings (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Federal investigators are examining real estate transactions on Florida's Gulf Coast involving two Allegheny County judges and a former Monroeville high school tennis champion who is accused by one of the judges of forging documents.

Many Re-Think Real Estate Career (News Channel 5 Nashville) - Selling real estate conjures up images of fancy cars, lots of money, and short work hours. Of course, that's not always a reality, especially during this slow real estate market.  Across the mid-state, a lot of people are re-thinking a real estate career.

Noon Rotary Club hears the state of real estate (Redlands Daily Facts) - REDLANDS - Local real estate agent Shirley Harry spoke about the Redlands real estate market Thursday at the Rotary Club of Redlands.

Grandbridge Real Estate Capital gets boost from HUD (BizJournals) - Grandbridge Real Estate Capital has received approval from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to operate as a "Multifamily Accelerated Processing" lender for multifamily and health-care programs. (BBT)

Bank Owned Real Estate Piles Up (The Morning News) - Northwest Arkansas grapples with record foreclosures and banks and mortgage lenders find their real estate portfolios growing. It's a combination that has some buyers presenting lowball offers.

Raveis Real Estate Makes Mark in Massachusetts (The Commercial Record) - At a time when some real estate firms are consolidating offices or closing up shop, William Raveis Real Estate & Home Services has grown in New England.