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Equity International May Open Brazil Real Estate Unit (Update1) (Bloomberg) - July 31 (Bloomberg) -- Sam Zell’s Equity International may open a real estate financing company in Brazil as record-low interest rates in Latin America’s biggest economy boost demand for alternative investments.

Is a Vegetarian Real Estate Agent More Trustworthy? (BusinessWeek) - A San Francisco Bay-area real estate broker is targeting his message to an unlike group of buyers and sellers: Vegetarians. I'm not sure what an agent's eating habits have to do with his ability to sell houses, but I'm sure the pitch is more likely to work in San Francisco than, say, Houston. This is how Daniel Berman of Pacific Century Realty explains it on his VeggieReeltor.com Web site (Yes, ...

Real Estate Weekly: Home buyers, sellers less happy with agents (Market Watch) - Don’t miss these top real-estate stories.

Real estate mogul guilty for looting co. funds (Chicago Tribune) - A commercial real estate developer who once proposed building the world's tallest building in the Loop pleaded guilty today to stealing at least $1.5 million from owners and tenants of properties managed by his company. Scott K. Toberman, 52, was owner and president of European American Realty Ltd., which managed properties in Chicago, Atlanta, Dayton and Richmond, Va. He pleaded guilty to one ...

Bangkok Post : THE REAL REASONS FOR THE REAL ESTATE BOOM (Bangkok Post - Thailand's English news) - Since March, housing prices in 70 major Chinese cities have stopped declining and begun to rise. But why has China seen such a strong rebound in its real estate market?

Real Estate Funds Rally on Bullish Signals (TheStreet.com) - Funds that invest in real estate outperformed those in other industries in the past week.

Real estate students find employment as market picks up (The Pasadena Citizen) - It was the year of the housing crisis and peak of the recession in 2008 when San Jacinto College student Patrick McFarland of Tyler found that he no longer had a job with AT&T. Like so many suffering from mass layoffs, he quickly swung into action to gain employment in a completely different industry. However, he chose the one blamed for the economic downward spiral — real estate.

Survey: Real estate recovery in '09 unlikely (Pacific Business News) - Hope is slipping among the commercial real estate community that an economic recovery will come in 2009, according to a new report.

Latest Atlanta real estate update available online at www.AtlantaRealEstate2009.com (dBusinessNews.com) - The newest online video report, highlighting the latest news and statistics about the metro Atlanta summer real estate market, is now available for free viewing at www.AtlantaRealEstate2009.com . Other information available for download from this site includes information on a Job Loss Protection program offered exclusively by Prudential Georgia Realty, the federal government’s $8,000 ...

Prudential Patt, White Real Estate acquires Exit Fast Track Realty (The Express-Times) - The Lehigh Valley's largest real estate company just got a little bigger. Prudential Patt, White Real Estate based in Allentown and Exit Fast Track Realty of Nazareth have joined forces. Exit Fast Track was founded in 2007 in Easton by...