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Onorato Wants Limits On Online Real Estate Searches (WTAE ThePittsburghChannel.com via Yahoo! News) - Some changes could be coming to Allegheny County's real estate Web site.

Pittsburgh commercial real estate market shows steady improvment (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) - Pittsburgh's commercial real estate market has come a long way from 2005 when Moody's Investors Service ranked the seven-county region among the 10 "most troubled" of 60 metropolitan markets across the nation.

Annual Commercial Real Estate Deal Maker Forum Set for Nov.  20 (Commercial Property News) - The eight annual Commercial Real Estate Deal Maker Forum is scheduled for Nov. 20. The event, which is being produced by Ulmer & Berne LLP, CB Richard Ellis, and Inside Business Magazine, will take place at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel in downtown Cleveland.

U.S. real estate fund sues HSBC over bond deal (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - A U.S. real estate investment trust sued HSBC Holdings' broker-dealer unit, alleging it took advantage of the credit crisis to profit at the expense of the fund.

GCC real estate projects cross $1 trillion mark (Gulf Daily News) - DUBAI: Real estate development across the GCC has surpassed the $1 trillion mark, according to industry experts.

Diversified real estate trust offers opportunity (The Cincinnati Enquirer) - A drop in share prices of real estate investment trusts could signal a chance to look under the hood at what a company owns.

Al Basel Real Estate Broker expands portfolio of elite foreign investors in Dubai's real estate sector (AME Info) - Al Basel Real Estate Broker, a leading property sales intermediary, has announced that it has recently attracted four elite investors to set up initial investments in Dubai worth a combined total of over Dhs100m.

County manager resigns post for real estate job (Salisbury Post) - Bill Cowan has resigned as Rowan County manager to head up a real estate development venture in Pinehurst. He told commissioners Friday afternoon that he is willing to stay in the job through the end of December.

Real estate sales down, foreclosures up (Outer Banks Sentinel) - Dare County has felt the crunch of a sluggish real estate market for the past 12 months evidenced by land transfer fees down more than 34 percent. Adding to the financial squeeze is a 78 percent increase in the number of foreclosures in the county.

Real Estate People & Places (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Real estate news in brief.