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Do your homework before hiring a real estate agent (Market Watch) - CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Real estate agents get no respect, and now they're getting fewer sales, too.

Real estate boom spurs ASU to offer master's program (The Arizona Republic) - Arizona State University has launched its first master's program in real estate development, a nod to the complexities of a field that is drawing interest from around the world.

Investors Real Estate Trust Announces Increase in Regular Quarterly Common Share Distribution, and Declares Series A (SYS-CON Media) - Investors Real Estate Trust (NASDAQ: IRETS)announced today that its Board of Trustees has declared a regular quarterlydistribution of 16.50 cents per share/unit payable on or about October 2,2006, to common shareholders and unitholders of record at the close ofbusiness on September 15, 2006. The distribution reinvestment price will bethe closing NASDAQ share price on October 2, 2006, less a

TRAINING & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: Real Estate Apprentice tells Dawn Heinemann: ‘You’re Hired!’ (Real Estate News) - Hogan School of Real Estate graduate blooms in the desert

Commercial Real Estate Index Maintains Uptrend (Real Estate News) - During the second quarter, Commercial Real Estate Index maintained uptrend

Real Estate Sales Down In Massachusetts, New Hampshire (WLBZ Bangor) - Sales of single-family homes in Massachusetts fell nearly 27% in July compared to the same month a year ago. A company that tracks real estate transactions says it was the state's sharpest sales drop-off since April 1995.

Tech Booms, Real Estate Busts? (Red Herring) - Real estate bubble loses air in the land of VCs and IT.

India's first real estate index launched (IBN live) - Real estate rating agency Liases Foras has launched India's first real estate sensitivity index -- Ressex

`Real estate rapist' gets 50-100 years (Boston Globe) - DOVER, N.H. -- Oliver Hooper, the traveling salesman dubbed the ``real estate rapist" for his attempts to enter houses that were for sale and attack women, was sentenced yesterday to 50 to 100 years in state prison, a maximum term the judge said was meant to keep him off the streets as long as legally possible.

Net Lease Q&A: GE Real Estate's Bill Gregory (Commercial Property News) - Net lease expert Dees Stribling spoke with Bill Gregory , GE Real Estate Business Property division's equity leader.