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Developers Look to Vietnam's Real Estate Market (Yahoo! Asia News) - HANOI, Sept 25 Asia Pulse - Vietnam is one of the most attractive markets for real estate developers in Asia, foreign and local investors have said.

NY court rules against real estate company (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - A court has blocked a New York City real estate company from redeveloping two historic tenement buildings. The tenements, on Manhattan's Upper East Side, were built in 1915 as part of a model complex that aimed to improve the quality of affordable housing.

Sex offender: I can't move because of bad real estate market (Chicago Sun-Times) - FRANKLIN, Wis. — A registered sex offender ordered out of his home in Franklin is expected in court Thursday to ask for more time to move because the faltering real estate market has kept him from selling his house.

Bearish Real Estate Execs Try to Digest Bad News from Wall Street (CoStar Group) - It doesn’t get much gloomier than this. A record 90% of executives polled for DLA Piper’s annual real estate outlook survey described their outlook as bearish. Most now say the potential impact of the Wall Street financial crisis eclipses the savings...

GoldenTree InSite Invests $222M in Brazilian Real Estate JV (Commercial Property News) - New York City-headquartered GoldenTree InSite Partners has signed on to invest as much as $222 million of equity in a joint venture with São Paulo, Brazil-based LDI - Inteligencia Urbana Completa, for the development of real estate projects in the São Paulo, Brazil region.

Local real estate, mortgage experts puzzled about foreclosure bailout (Detroit Free Press) - News that the $700-billion financial industry bailout could include help for those facing foreclosure was met with confusion among local real estate and mortgage industry experts today.

New real estate fund to asquire, redevelop distressed properties (The Daily Record) - Affiliates of Tyler – Donegan Real Estate have formed the Mid-Atlantic Capital Fund LLC to invest in and develop distressed properties with a high potential for return on investments.

Candidates and Financial, Real Estate Contributions (About.com) - I checked OpenSecrets to determine how much money presidential candidates have received from "commercial banks," "insurance," the "real estate" sector, the "securities and investment" sector, and the "misc. finance"...

UA To Offer Free Real Estate Seminar (The Morning News) - The University of Arkansas' Students in Free Enterprise are offering a free entrepreneurship program for local real estate agents.

Buying or Selling in Today's Market? Internet Paves the Path to Real Estate Success (Carteret County News-Times) - (ARA) - Home buyers and sellers - the relationship may seem like it should be more adversarial than ever, given the current market. Coming at the real estate equation from opposite sides, buyers and sellers may feel they have little in common.