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Morgan Stanley Real Estate to Buy CNL (Washington Post) - ORLANDO, Fla. -- CNL Hotel & Resorts Inc., the nation's second-largest hotel real estate investment trust, said Friday it agreed to be bought in two separate deals worth about $5.53 billion combined.

Shell Brand in Atlanta Strengthened By Transition of Retail Assets; Sam's Real Estate Holdings LLC to Acquire 47 ... (The Auto Channel) - HOUSTON, Jan. 11, 2007 -- Motiva Enterprises LLC (Motiva), the company that markets the Shell brand in the eastern United States, has sold its interest in 47 sites to Sam's Real Estate Holdings of Georgia, LLC (Sam's Holdings), a Georgia-based wholesaler.

Real estate news in brief: Staff appointments, sales leaders (Naples Daily News) - A list of recent real estate staff appointments and sales leaders.

Real Estate Briefs: Jan. 21, 2007 (Naples Daily News) - A list of recent real estate related news briefs.

Real estate news in brief: Construction rates, sales rates (Naples Daily News) - A list of recent real estate construction rates and sales rates.

Real Estate Live (Washington Post) - Welcome to Real Estate Live, an online discussion of the Washington area housing market with Post Real Estate editor Maryann Haggerty.

Morgan Stanley Real Estate to buy CNL (AP via Yahoo! News) - CNL Hotel & Resorts Inc., the nation's second-largest hotel real estate investment trust, said Friday it agreed to be bought in two separate deals worth about $5.53 billion combined.

Company guides Bay Area real estate investors (San Jose Mercury News) - When Frank Richards started a mortgage company in 2001, he soon noticed that many of his customers hoped to invest in real estate someday, but admitted to being in ``that frozen paralysis state'' of not knowing how or where to do it, he said.

Where Bay Area real estate investors are buying (San Jose Mercury News) - The real estate market may be slower, but Bay Area investors are still buying a sizable amount of property -- elsewhere. Bay Area residents bought more than 16,500 vacation or investment properties outside the region from January to November 2006 -- 39 percent fewer than during the same period in 2005, according to DataQuick Information Systems. Even so, 2006 will rank as the third-most-active ...

Bahrain to host first gcc real estate forum (Gulf Daily News) - The first forum on real estate investment in gcc countries due to be held in Manama on February 7 will review the sector's current boom and future prospects.