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Real estate firm leases space to Southern Link, Walgreens (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - Birmingham real estate brokerage firm J.H. Berry & Gilbert Inc. announced more than 42,000 square feet of local office and industrial leases.

Three commercial brokers form Prairie Village real estate firm (The Kansas City Star) - Three longtime local commercial real estate brokers have joined forces in a new Prairie Village company.

GenCorp names VP of real estate (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - Home-building executive Michael Pavik has been named vice president of real estate for GenCorp, an aerospace and defense contractor with plans for a master-planned community in the eastern portion of Sacramento County.

Developers, real estate group contribute to Franklin campaigns (The Tennessean) - FRANKLIN — Real estate developers and interests are fueling the election campaigns of the city's mayoral and alderman-at-large races.

Sixth real estate agent sacked (TVNZ) - Auckland real estate company Barfoot and Thompson has sacked another of its agents for misconduct. Six agents have now been caught up in an alleged scam involving inflating sale prices.

Real estate scam rocks industry (TVNZ) - Five Auckland real estate agents have been suspended over an alleged multi-million dollar mortgage scam. The Real Estate Institute says the problem was uncovered by Barfoot and Thompson which has terminated the contracts of three salespeople for alleged misconduct.

500 acres of prime Missoula real estate for sale (Helena Independent Record) - MISSOULA - Hundreds of acres of prime real estate within Missoula's urban fringe are up for sale in a bankruptcy auction.

New Zealand fraud squad investigates real estate agent scam (EARTHtimes.org) - Wellington - New Zealand's Serious Fraud Office is investigating a multi-million dollar scam after five real estate agents were suspended for allegedly inflating the sales prices of properties to raise development funds from banks, news reports said ...

By the numbers: Local expert offers his take on the real estate market by looking at figures (Marco Eagle) - Tired of some of the hot air spouted about the state of the real estate market in the wake of the 2005-6 boom, expert George Percel has offered his own gritty take on the situation.

Queens Real Estate Expo (Queens Courier) - Just a day after the September 30 Queens Real Estate Expo (QREE), QREE founder Anthony Kazazis already had his sights set on 2008’s event.