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Real Estate Center Says Texas Lags Big States in Agents (Real Estate News) - Texas has 100,000 active real estate licensees

DISTRICT REAL ESTATE DRAWS LITTLE INTEREST AT AUCTION (News Journal) - MANSFIELD — Hopes of a real estate windfall from the sale of Mansfield City Schools real estate were dashed Wednesday when an auction drew a top bid that was barely 5 percent of its appraised value.

Real Estate Transactions from May 15-19, 2006 (Martha's Vineyard Times) - May 15, Joanne T. Turnbull and William B. Perkins, trustees, Turnbull Family Real Estate Trust, sold 365 Middle Rd. to Peter J. Bouyoucos for $2,050,000.

TODAY'S REAL ESTATE by Janice Mitchell of Janice Mitchell Real Estate, Inc. (Landmark) - TODAY'S REAL ESTATE by Janice Mitchell of Janice Mitchell Real Estate, Inc. EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY Notary Public STAGING STRATEGY Prospective sellers are often unaware that a few key improvements can shorten the selling time of their homes and add to the sale price.

Texas trails big states in real estate agents (Houston Business Journal) - Booming real estate sales are driving more Texans to sign up to get licensed as real estate agents, according to the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University.

UNF to offer real estate courses (The Business Journal of Jacksonville) - The University of North Florida will begin offering real estate courses Monday. UNF's division of continuing education is working with St. Petersburg-based Cooke Real Estate to offer the courses.

Redfin Launches Online Real Estate Brokerage in San Francisco Bay Area (SYS-CON Media) - Online real estate broker Redfin (http://www.redfin.com/) today launched its award-winning real estate site in the San Francisco Bay Area, and opened new offices in San Jose, San Francisco and the East Bay to provide local customer support. Redfin lets home-buyers buy homes online and get two thirds of the commission refunded at closing. Redfin is the first online brokerage to offer local service

Survey: Convergence to have little effect on real estate prices (Haaretz Daily) - The prime minister's convergence plan will not influence the real estate market much and will only be felt in a small number of mostly rural settlements, according to a Geocartography survey.

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Rent Finders USA, Inc. Rises Above Downward Trend in the Real Estate Market (SYS-CON Media) - Rent Finders USA, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: RFDU) announced today that, according to the Florida Association ofRealtors® (FAR), transaction volume for the month of April was down 42%for the entire West Palm Beach and Boca Raton real estate market comparedto a year ago. Rent Finders' transactions were down only 8% in the sameperiod as compared to a year ago.