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ASU making strides in real estate (The Arizona Republic) - ASU's W.P. Carey School of Business wants to become a top real estate educator. It now offers an MBA with a real estate concentration and a Ph.D. in business administration/real estate finance. And this month, a top scholar of real estate finance will begin teaching.

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.

Briefing - Asia Real Estate - Jan 3, 2007 (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Asia News) - An executive briefing on real estate for Jan 3, 2007, prepared by Asia Pulse (http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, Asia-based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities.

Commercial real estate seen slowing a bit after '06 boom (San Antonio Express News) - San Antonio's commercial real estate markets reached extraordinary gains in 2006, and a slight slowdown is expected this year, according to an annual market forecast from Grubb & Ellis released Tuesday.

GP Investments to Create Real Estate Company in Brazil (Bloomberg.com) - Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) -- GP Investments Ltd., a private equity fund, will create a company to invest in real estate projects in Brazil, Latin America's biggest economy.

Real Estate Briefs: Dec. 31, 2006 (Naples Daily News) - A list of real estate related news briefs.

Google, Yahoo, Apple Boost Silicon Valley Real Estate (WebProNews) - If you're looking to locate your business in California's Silicon Valley and are feeling the pain of real estate prices, we know who you should blame. Apple, Google and Yahoo are collectively buying-up large parcels of land in the Valley and driving up commercial real estate values in the process . Collectively, the three big tech companies spent more than half a billion dollars on land and ...

Robert Bruss: What is your best real estate investment for the new year? (Naples Daily News) - On a recent flight from San Francisco to Chicago, I sat next to a talkative businesswoman. After we exchanged pleasantries and she learned I invest in and write about real estate, she asked, “What type of real estate should my husband and I invest in?”

Danville tires of real estate black eye (WQAD Moline) - DANVILLE, Ill. Real estate agents in Danville say no news is good news. Local home prices were ranked the lowest in the country in a recent report from the National Association of Realtors.So now, the Danville Area Board of Realtors says it will no longer submit its sales data.

Industrial real estate vacancies decline in Q4 2006 (New Mexico Business Weekly) - Industrial real estate space continues to shrink in Albuquerque, according to CB Richard Ellis' fourth quarter statistics.