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Real Estate Weekly -- Aug. 18 (Market Watch) - When it comes to environmental consciousness, the real estate industry has not had all that great a reputation, at least until this century. The bulldozer was the tool to choice for developers and habitat protection generally meant leaving space for a convenience strip mall somewhere in the site plan.

Inland Real Estate Declares Dividend (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Inland Real Estate Corp. on Friday declared a monthly cash dividend of 8 cents per share. The dividend is payable on Sept. 18, to common stockholders of record on Aug. 31.

Real Estate industry under attack (Stuff) - The Consumers' Institute has called for the real estate industry to be stripped of its powers to handle complaints and offences.

Inland Real Estate Declares Dividend (KiplingerForecasts.com) - (AP) OAK BROOK, Ill. Inland Real Estate Corp. on Friday declared a monthly cash dividend of 8 cents per share. The dividend is payable on Sept. 18, to common stockholders of record on Aug. 31.

Real estate tours help find that retirement destination (USA Today) - With a glut of baby boomers hurtling down the pike toward retirement, a number of tour operators are targeting them with real estate jaunts to pretty places where the living is easy and more affordable. Tour organizers tout their ability to vet developers, agents, lawyers and the like, on behalf of newcomers clueless to the ways things work in foreign lands.

Commercial real estate broker joins new company (Rocky Mountain News) - Commercial real estate broker Phil Ruschmeyer has jumped ship. Ruschmeyer, 48, joined the downtown Denver office of CB Richard Ellis after a 26-year career at the Frederick Ross Co.

UA finance professor tapped to raise awareness of real estate research center (Birmingham Business Journal) - O. William "Bill" Evans, real estate law and finance professor at the University of Alabama Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business, has been named assistant to Dean J. Barry Mason.

State real estate market leveling out (WTNH-TV New Haven) - (Farmington-WTNH, Aug. 18, 2006 4:54 PM) _ Around the country the real estate market is cooling down after some red hot years. In Connecticut, experts say the bubble hasn't burst, but things are getting back to normal and that's good news for buyers.

Capital ABTB Inc. and BTB Real Estate Investment Trust Announce $37 Million Public Offering (SYS-CON Media) - Capital ABTB Inc. (TSX VENTURE: BTB.P) ('ABTB'), a capital pool company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (the 'Exchange') announced today that BTB Real Estate Investment Trust ('BTB REIT') has retained Blackmont Capital Inc. (the 'Agent') as its lead agent to offer, on a best efforts basis in all provinces of Canada, with respect to a minimum of 2,325,581 ($5,000,000) up to a maximum of

Stirling Sotheby's to open Brevard real estate gallery (Orlando Business Journal) - Stirling Sotheby's International Realty, which sold luxury homes worth more than $1 billion last year, will open a real estate gallery in the Melbourne-Cocoa Beach area within the next 60 days.