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Real estate tax relief to dwindle (The News & Advance) - Most low-income elderly or disabled Lynchburg residents likely will get less real estate tax relief in 2006 than last year. Last year, 98 percent of the 938 people who applied for relief didn’t have to pay a dime in real estate taxes.

Real Estate Apprentice™ Program Names Finalist from Prudential Gary Greene, Realtors® (Real Estate News) - RISMEDIA, Oct. 11, 2005 — Prudential Real Estate Affiliates, Inc., a Prudential Financial, Inc. [NYSE: PRU] company, has announced that Roxann McDaniel, a real estate sales professional with Prudential Gary Greene, REALTORS® in The Woodlands, Texas, has been selected as a finalist in the Real Estate Apprentice™ Grant program.

Ex-Seminole politician to head real estate group's Florida operations (Orlando Business Journal) - LandAmerica Financial Group Inc., a leading provider of real estate transaction services, has named a former Seminole County commissioner to head its Florida division based in Orlando.

Galveston Prudential real estate offices merge (Houston Business Journal) - Three Galveston real estate offices -- Gary Greene Realtors, Prudential Galveston Realty and Prudential Tiki Realty -- have merged.

Book sheds light on the dark side of the real estate business (Sun-Sentinel) - "How is the Ku Klux Klan Like a Group of Real Estate Agents?" That's the provocative title of the second chapter of rogue economist Steven D. Levitt's innovative new book, Freakono mics . And that's just the start of several pages sure to displease the real estate agents who read it.

Real Estate Lessons from Trammell Crow (Real Estate News) - RISMEDIA, Oct. 11, 2005 — When you hear the term "America's real estate magnate," who comes to mind? Donald Trump, of course. But don't believe everything you see on TV. There's a real estate developer whose empire . . . well . . . trumps that of "The Donald." And because he shuns the spotlight instead of seeking it out, the average person has never heard of him. (If you're a resident of Texas, a

Whyalla real estate boom defies SA trend (Whyalla News) - Iron Triangle cities' real estate continued to perform strongly during September. Whyalla's median house price rise for the quarter was 18.97 per cent and Port Pirie's was 9.62 per cent.

New Orleans real estate market has uncertain long-term outlook after Katrina (Picayune Item) - NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Real estate agent Fred Buras' cell phone has been ringing incessantly for weeks. Residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina are on the line asking if he has any high-and-dry properties they can move into quickly.

Real Estate Q&A (The Charlotte Observer) - Q. My late mother's will left her assets to me, her only offspring. Her real estate is heavily mortgaged, in a distant state, and I don't want any of her assets.

Berman Investment Group Launches Real Estate Mentoring Program (PrimeZone via Yahoo! Finance) - Noted entrepreneur, business coach and best-selling author Bruce A. Berman, president of the Berman Investment Group, today announced the launch of his company's Real Estate Mentoring program.