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N.Y. Real Estate Heir Sent Back to Prison (AP via Yahoo! News) - A New York real estate heir who was acquitted of murdering his neighbor in Texas will be sent back to prison for violating his parole on other charges, parole officials ruled Friday.

Dollar General adds to real estate team (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - Discount retailer Dollar General Corp. is beefing up its real estate management team.

Real Estate People & Places: 1/21/06 (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Coldwell Banker Real Estate has hired several new agents. The agents and their offices are: Katheryn Manly, North Hills; Michael Koma, Cranberry; Kimberly Pitts, Hampton; Gary A. Cooper , Fox Chapel; Henry Verner, Peters; Steven Davis, South Hills/Upper St. Clair; Kevin Kautz and Michelle Niehenke, Pleasant Hills; and Ralph Crewe , Squirrel Hill.

Real Estate Live (Washington Post) - Post Real Estate editor Maryann Haggerty takes your questions and comments about the local housing market.

Turning wasteland into valued real estate (The Capital Times) - BT Squared president Tom Bergamini embraces the challenge of transforming hazardous waste sites into viable commercial real estate.

Report: U.S. commercial real estate market healthy, Orlando to see 'gradual improvement' (Orlando Business Journal) - Commercial real estate should have another healthy year in 2006, as job growth will benefit the office market and an abundance of capital will boost investment sales, according to Grubb & Ellis Co.'s 2006 North America Real Estate Forecast released Friday.

Beijing to toughen tax collection on real estate industry (People's Daily) - Beijing will toughen tax evaluation and examination on 11 industries including real estate in 2006 to prevent tax evasion, according to the Beijing Local Taxation Bureau.

GE Commercial Real Estate Expands Spanish Logistics Portfolio (Commercial Property News) - GE Commercial Real Estate reports that its recent acquisition of a 16,700-square-meter logistics-warehouse facility in Barcelona for €11.6 million (approximately $14 million U.S.) fits in with its plan to build a sustainable business in Spain and Portugal.

Police: Man raped real estate agent (The Philadelphia Inquirer) - A 33-year-old West Chester man who expressed an interest in condos ended up raping his real estate agent at knifepoint, police said.

Real estate market continues to cool (Contra Costa Times) - The real estate slowdown sped up in December, capping a year that some observers believe will mark the end of the historic home price run-up. Sales of new and resale homes and condos in the nine-county Bay Area dropped on a year-over-year basis for the ninth month in a row and at the steepest rate since November 2001, according to La Jolla-based research firm DataQuick Information Systems. The

 
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Maine real estate taxes down (Boston Globe) - The real estate slump is resulting in declining real estate transfer tax collections across northern New England.

Real estate mogul dead in apparent suicide (Chicago Sun-Times) - Steven Good, a major figure in Chicago real estate, was found shot dead in a Kane County wildlife preserve, police said Monday. Good, 52, appeared to be the victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said. They said his body was found in a car parked in the Max McGraw wildlife preserve near East Dundee.

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