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Real estate vet tapped to be the face of GVA Cawley in Alamo City (BizJournals) - National real estate firm GVA Cawley had been looking to enter the San Antonio market for quite some time.

Local businesses find deals as Hawaii real estate investment shrinks (BizJournals) - The days of $10 million-plus deals have dwindled and the sales of hotels and shopping centers no longer dominate the list of the year’s largest commercial real estate transactions.

A Vail Valley real estate bright spot? (The Aspen Times) - EAGLE COUNTY - Looking for a bright spot in the county's real estate market? Miller Ranch might be about it.

A Vail Valley real estate bright spot? (The Vail Trail) - As the local real estate market slumps, some owners of "affordable" housing are selling quickly

On The Block / The week's top postings from The Chronicle's real estate blog (sfgate.com/blogs/ontheblock) (San Francisco Chronicle) - The market effect of grisly crime Turns out that violent crime is a great way to knock more than $100,000 off a home's asking price. Case in point: 512 Stanford Ave. in Redwood City, the site of a triple homicide in June 2008. After initially being put on the... Sponsored Topics: Crime - Violent crime - Homicide - Chronicle - Real estate

Palm Desert real estate lawyer dies of cancer (The Desert Sun) - Christopher Moffatt Blaisdell, a Palm Desert real estate attorney who represented celebrities and local officials in the Coachella Valley for nearly 40 years, died of complications from cancer, his family announced Wednesday.

Sydney real estate scam of elderly connected to Dubbo (Daily Liberal) - A Manly real estate agent, understood to have connections to Dubbo, has been punished by the Office of Fair Trading for duping elderly clients.

Idaho Farm Real Estate Values Decrease (AG Weekly) - Idaho farm real estate values, a measurement of the value of all land and buildings on farms averaged $2,200 per acre on January 1, 2009, down 12.0 percent from 2008, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service.

Auction punch-ups as real estate soars (Adelaide Now) - SOARING demand for affordable residential real estate is prompting buyers to pay tens of thousands of dollars more than the advertised price on websites and has even sparked a punch-up at an auction in Sydney's Parramatta.

Compelling need for real estate regulator: Parekh (Business Standard India) - Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) chairman Deepak Parekh has said there is a compelling need to have real estate regulators at state level to deal with issues concerning the housing sector.