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Despite Housing Slide, Real Estate Sites Sell (New York Times) - Although most of the real estate industry wishes it could fast-forward through 2008, a few online start-ups are surviving nicely.

Real Estate Troubles Are Weighing on Florida Voters? Minds as Primary Nears (New York Times) - Florida is a cultural patchwork, but one issue appears to sew together its disparate parts: the real estate crisis.

Real Estate Prices Continue To Skyrocket In HCM City (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 News) - HCM City's real estate market would continue its high growth rate this year, following an increase in demand and a fast-growing economy, experts said.

REAL ESTATE PRICES CONTINUE TO SKYROCKET IN HCM CITY (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance) - Housing   HCM City's real estate market would continue its high growth rate this year, following an increase in demand and a fast-growing economy, experts said.

Real estate Web sites see growth despite housing slide (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) - Venture capitalists poured about $60 million into Zillow, Redfin and other real estate Web sites last year -- only to watch the market enter a historic slide. Now, although most of the real estate industry wishes it could fast-forward through 2008, these online startups are surviving nicely.

Asian real estate funds post losses (Financial Times) - Real estate securities funds investing in Asia swung into losses in the fourth quarter of 2007, extinguishing the last remaining bright spot for the global industry, according to data from AME Capital, a research outfit.

Real estate agents 'preying on battlers' (ABC via Yahoo!7 News) - Federal and New South Wales politicians are calling for an inquiry into online real estate agents who offer quick house sales to people who can no longer pay their mortgages.

• How to Earn a Lot with Miami Real Estate Investing (Turks.US) - One of the common ways to make money is real estate investing. Investing money for properties in Miami real estate has been one of the long term ways of saving for an individual.

SD Real Estate Group Conducts Foreclosure Tours (NBC 4 Los Angeles) - SAN DIEGO -- Call it a sign of the times: A San Diego real estate group has started taking prospective buyers on tours of foreclosed homes, City News Service reported Sunday.

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.