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Sneak Peek: Real Estate (Forbes) - Forbes editors take a look at the year ahead in real estate.

Real Estate Investment Trusts: Rent or Buy? (SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance) - Stockerblog submits: Real Estate Investment Trusts [REITs ] avoid double taxation and their yields can be fairly high. As long as REITs distribute at least 90% of taxable income to shareholders, they are not subject to federal income tax - thus making them an attractive option for investors.

Israel stocks leap; real estate, Polar, Internet Gold advance (Market Watch) - TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Israeli stocks closed richly green on Monday, taking an initial crack at a fifth straight year of gains, as the real estate and tech sectors took off and the benchmark index was led by gains in Bank Hapoalim, Africa-Israel Investments and Teva Pharmaceutical.

Confusing real estate market (Aspen Daily News) - In response to Tim Estin's article on the real estate market, "Will history repeat itself? A look to 2007," I agree that real estate in this valley will continue to rise, but I have one question.

Real estate agents hope for market rebound in '07 (NBC 2 Fort Myers) - Real estate agents say they expect Southwest Florida's sagging housing market to pick back up in 2007.

Clint Eastwood enters real-estate business (ANI via Yahoo! India News) - New York, Jan. 1 (ANI): Oscar-winning film director, Clint Eastwood, has reportedly made his entry into the real-estate business. According to 'House and Garden', the 'Million Dollar Baby' star has turned his 2,000-acre ranch into a 90-home "regenerative" community called Tahema. "Some people don't want any development at all," the New York Post quoted ...

Real estate transactions (The Columbian) - Residential real estate transactions over $200,000 filed with the Clark County Assessor from Oct. 16-31. The information includes Seller's name, buyer's name, property location, description, price and closing date.

COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE, CONSTRUCTION, WINE: Napa Pipe, Equity sale will play out in '07 (North Bay Business Journal) - Some of the biggest commercial real estate stories of 2006 will set the pace for 2007.

Real estate's California gold rush (BizJournals) - The barbarians kicked down the gates and a flood of out-of-state investors propped up New Mexico's real estate market in 2006.

Real Estate: A buyer's market, but still expensive (BizJournals) - Compared with many Mainland markets that are in a real estate free-fall, prices and sales activity in Hawaii will still be pretty solid in 2007. But it's becoming a buyer's market, with quick sales, multiple offers and aggressive pricing of fixer-uppers definitely a thing of the past.