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Yahoo upgrades real estate site (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday upgraded its real estate site with new features that provide current home valuations, more than 3 million real estate listings and other new interactive features.

Next Big Thing: Internet real estate gets a foreign accent (Business 2.0 via Yahoo! Finance) - Real estate prices might be falling in some areas - but that's for physical real estate. Virtual real estate, in the form of Internet domain names - the part after the "www" in a website's address - is on a tear and showing no signs of slowing down.

Miami Commercial Real Estate (Turks.US) - Miami's commercial real estate market has been maintaining its momentum, despite the fact that property owners wrestle with escalating insurance costs due to Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma last year.

Yahoo upgrades real estate Web site (East Bay Business Times) - Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday upgraded its real estate site with features that provide current home valuations, more than 3 million real estate listings and other new interactive features.

Rempel hired as airport real estate exec (winnipegsun.com) - Winnipeg Airports Authority has landed a new real estate executive to develop its airport campus. WAA yesterday announced the hiring of Eva Rempel as its vice-president of real estate and development. Her first day of work is Friday.

HouseValues Launches "Daily Motivator" Podcasts for Real Estate Professionals (SYS-CON Media) - HouseValues (NASDAQ: SOLD) today announcedthat it has launched a new educational podcast, 'The Daily Motivator,'available free to all real estate professionals.

Weaver Davis & Jacob Reports That Houston Ranks Third in Nation in Retail Investment; Sugar Land Commercial Real Estate (RedNova) - Once again Houston is bucking the national trend, reports Peter Jacob, principal of Weaver Davis & Jacob, a progressive commercial real estate company in Fort Bend County.

China: National Real Estate Climate Index up by 0.58 points (Emerging Markets Economy) - In July, National Real Estate Climate Index reached 103.51, up by 0.58 points from June, or up by 1.54 over the same month of the previous year.

Yet another real estate IPO to hit mkts (IBN live) - Real estate developer Omaxe Ltd is to come out with an IPO in the next few months to raise an estimated Rs 1,000 crore.

Stock investors sniff out real estate deals (Viet Nam News) - HA NOI — Shares of real estate and construction companies are increasingly being seen as potentially lucrative investments in domestic securities markets.