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DB Real Estate Sells 10 German Retail Properties (Commercial Property News) - The open-ended Grundbesitz-Invest Fund of DB Real Estate Investment GmbH recently sold 10 German retail properties and a leisure center for €300 million (U.S.$382.9 million) to REIT Asset Management GmbH.

Real estate profits not assured (The Sentinel) - Real estate investment has a bright and a dark side, investor Alex Hartzler of WCI Partners of Harrisburg said Thursday in Lemoyne.

May a record month for real estate sales (winnipegsun.com) - Buyers raised home sales to epic proportion last month. May 2006 will go down in the Winnipeg Real Estate Board book for notching three records: Most properties sold in a single month, first time monthly dollar volume beat $200 million, and first time three $1-million-plus homes sold in a month.

Understanding a real estate closing (The Meridian Star) - A real estate closing is the final step in transferring property ownership from one person to another. Closings follow local custom and may be done differently in other areas.

Institute defends real estate agents (NZCity) - Real estate agents are defending their profession following claims a growing number of people are opting to sell their homes themselves. Figures show more than a fifth of residential sales last year were made without an agent.

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UCF to seek real-estate professor (Orlando Sentinel) - A dean says a specialty program should be up and running once an eminent scholar is on board. The University of Central Florida will start searching for an eminent scholar in real estate in September as a first step in UCF's School of Real Estate, the dean of the College of Business Administration said Friday.

MONEY Magazine: Your Home 2005: A life in real estate (Money via Yahoo! Finance) - With an eye for fixer-uppers and a nose for shady contractors, Sonia Bawa Mesaros, 35, of Westlake, Ohio made a fortune in a tricky market: real estate .

`Liar' free to sell more real estate (Sunday Times) - THIS man has been exposed in the Supreme Court as a liar and a rogue – but he's still able to ply his trade as a real estate agent.

Marketplace Report: Betting on Hot Real Estate (NPR) - Nervous because you just bought a house in a hot real estate market? Well, now you can essentially bet against the value of your home. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has become the latest financial venue to offer contracts where investors can "hedge" home prices in a specific market, such as Las Vegas or Miami. Madeleine Brand talks with Steve Tripoli of Marketplace.