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China's Bid to Tame Economy Begins a Real Estate Bust (Washington Post) - SHENZHEN, China -- Sweating in the bright afternoon sun, the men and women stand on the sides of the roads like homeless people clutching wrinkled cardboard signs. Waving the boards, the real estate agents call out to cars zooming by.

Commercial Real Estate Loans Tighten Up (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Commercial real-estate lenders, spooked by the collapse in residential housing, are reining in riskier loans on fears that underwriting standards were too loose.

Real estate: More price drops, more layoffs (CNN Money) - For those in the real estate industry and for those looking to buy or sell a home, it could take until 2009 to catch a break.

Commercial Real Estate to Slow in 2008 (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Growth in commercial real estate will slow next year, but the sector will avoid a crippling downturn like the one currently plaguing the housing market, according to an emerging trends report released Wednesday.

Taiwan's Dwindling Tourism May Hit Resort Real Estate (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 News) - A dwindling number of foreign visitors to Taiwan might hit the local resort real estate sector, business sources predicted Wednesday.

TAIWAN'S DWINDLING TOURISM MAY HIT RESORT REAL ESTATE (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance) - Taiwan   A dwindling number of foreign visitors to Taiwan might hit the local resort real estate sector, business sources predicted Wednesday.

Commercial real estate correction seen in '08 (BizJournals) - Real estate experts expect the U.S. commercial real estate market to slow next year in a healthy correction, according to a new report.

Atlanta 'chronically overdeveloped' and real estate sectors 'soft,' report says (BizJournals) - PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Urban Land Institute have ranked metro Atlanta the No. 13 commercial real estate market to watch in the nation, but noted the area's real estate sectors are soft.

Bring On the Bears: Optimism Fades in Latest Real Estate Exec Survey (CoStar Group) - The bulls have abandoned the market in droves, at least according to the latest national survey of real estate executives conducted by global law firm DLA Piper. The poll of 332 industry executives released last week shows a startling reversal of fortune...

CORRECT: Lenders Raise Bar For Commercial Real Estate -2- (INO News) - "Six months ago, it was money chasing deals. Now it's deals chasing money," said Larry Vogler, president of Prime Group Inc., a Chicago-based commercial real estate developer.