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Where Is Real-Estate Relief for Military Families? (Newsweek) - Congress approved half a billion dollars to help military families hammered by the real-estate crisis. Unfortunately, the money seems stuck in a bureaucratic delay.

Google tweaks real estate listings on Google Maps (San Jose Mercury News) - Google may crush all other Internet search portals, yet when it comes to real estate listings, it's often less of a destination than a pit stop. But will that change?

Google tweaks real estate listings on Google Maps (The Christian Science Monitor) - LOS ANGELES - Google Inc. may crush all other Internet search portals, yet when it comes to real estate listings, its often less of a destination than a pit stop. But will that change? The Internet search behemoth drives a ton of Web traffic to real estate sites everyday. Still, Google ...

Google aims to raise its real estate 'curb appeal' (Long Beach Press-Telegram) - LOS ANGELES - Google Inc. may crush all other Internet search portals, yet when it comes to real estate listings, it's often less of a destination than a pit stop.

Direxion Launches Leveraged Real Estate ETFs (ETFguide.com via Yahoo! Finance) - SAN DIEGO - Two new Direxion ETFs focused on real estate stocks have just been introduced. The Direxion Daily Real Estate Bull 3x Shares and the...

REAL ESTATE PULSE (The Myrtle Beach Sun News) - Bill and Becky McDermott have joined Coldwell Banker Chicora Real Estate's North Myrtle Beach office. Judy Parker has joined Gallery of Properties as an agent in general real estate.

Dormont ex-real estate agent was inspiration to family, friends (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) - John J. Kennedy of Dormont, a retired real estate agent, died on July 15, 2009, in his daughter's Mt. Lebanon home. He was 96.

Where real estate is whacking sports (Yahoo! Sports) - From St. Louis to Dallas, sports teams are getting smacked around by the real estate hurricane.

Commercial real estate lending program picks up (AP via Yahoo! News) - Investors' appetite picked up this month for a government program aimed at spurring lending in the troubled commercial real estate market.

Real Estate (Kitco.com) - A thoughtful email from a man asked me if we should buy real estate now. Inflation hedges are only a good deal if you can buy them cheap enough. A good inflation hedge should go up, not down or sideways.