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Carrefour Plans Real Estate IPO to Fund Share Buyback (Update1) (Bloomberg.com) - Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Carrefour SA, Europe's biggest retailer, plans to sell shares in a real estate unit and dispose of assets to fund a stock buyback worth as much as 4.5 billion euros ($6.2 billion) after pressure from investors.

Briefing - Asia Real Estate - Aug 30, 2007 (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Asia News) - An executive briefing on real estate for Aug 30, 2007, prepared by Asia Pulse (http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, Asia-based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities.

Women's real estate group forming NM chapter (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - The Commercial Real Estate Women Network is forming a New Mexico chapter.

Indian real estate to shrug off global credit crunch (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News) - LONDON, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Foreign investment interest in Indian real estate may suffer a setback due to the global credit crunch but 30 percent-plus returns and the fact that billions of dollars are still waiting to be deployed may shield the sector, one investor said.

EMAAR PAKISTAN INVESTING US$2.4 BLN IN REAL ESTATE PROJECT (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance) - Housing Emaar Pakistan will invest US$2.4 billion in its new Crescent Bay real estate project located within Karachi's DHA Phase VIII and in close proximity to the DHA golf course. The proposed project will be completed in seven years.

Emaar Pakistan Investing US$2.4 BLN In Real Estate Project (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 News) - Emaar Pakistan will invest US$2.4 billion in its new Crescent Bay real estate project located within Karachi's DHA Phase VIII and in close proximity to the DHA golf course. The proposed project will be completed in seven years.

Is Maine's Real Estate Market On The Rebound? (WCSH 6 Portland) - (NEWS CENTER) -- Maine's real estate market hasn't taken the dive they're seeing in some other states, but brokers say buyers and sellers will continue to see more ups and downs.

CB Richard Ellis to provide real estate services for Nissan (BizJournals) - CB Richard Ellis Group Inc. was chosen by Nissan North America Inc. as its exclusive real estate services provider for non-manufacturing facilities across the U.S., the company said Wednesday. (CBG)

Getting Real Estate Agents to Adopt Blogging for Enhanced SEO (Search Engine Journal) - In my previous post on Search Engine Journal, I discussed how blogging was ideal for real estate marketing, boosting natural SEO and lead generation opportunities. Yet, real estate agents have a hard time starting a blog, even when shown evidence that showing up on Google’s top pages is tantamount to being the next generation full [...]

Kuwaiti real estate floating on oil (Zawya) - 30 August 2007 Kuwait's real estate sector is booming as the economy, boosted by high oil prices, surges on a wave of liquidity.