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Real Estate Prices Soaring in Las Vegas (ABC News) - Real Estate Prices Soaring in Las Vegas As Buildings Go Up, and Up, in Downtown

Lawsuit on real estate deal names Windsor man (Greeley Tribune Online) - A Douglas County woman grieving for a murdered husband may lose her house because of a botched real estate deal at the hands of a Windsor businessman.

Boom or bust, network tracks Boston's real estate (Boston Globe) - Founded in 1987, Listing Information Network began tracking the downtown real estate market during the New England boom and bust of the 1980s. Link's owner and president, Debra Taylor Blair, recently spoke with Boston Globe reporter Kimberly Blanton. Q: Your third-quarter report showed signs of slower condo sales after a record 2004. Why?

Internet becoming a major force in today's real estate market (Portsmouth Herald) - Kathy Walsh, of Coldwell Banker Walsh Real Estate, recently sold a house in Exeter to a couple relocating from the Midwest. What made this sale different from most is that every phase of the transaction took place online.

No real estate boom for post-Katrina Big Easy (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette) - NEW ORLEANS – Shannon Sharpe, a real estate agent in New Orleans for the past five years, spends her days trying to deal with her flooded house and searching for customers.

Slow job growth leads to stable real estate market (Pittsburgh Live) - "Stable" or "steady" are good words to use to describe the Pittsburgh-area real estate market, says Nicholas G. Buss of PNC Financial Services Group.

Arab Real Estate Company buys prime plots of land at Business Bay (AME Info) - A major Kuwaiti business house, Arab Real Estate Company of Kuwait, has announced that it purchased prime plots of land at Business Bay at an investment that had crossed AED 100 million.

Real estate agent killed in crash (Danville Register Bee) - DANVILLE, Va. - Commercial real estate agent and development advocate David Joseph Macpherson died on Friday in an auto racing accident at New Hampshire International Speedway when his 1993 BMW 325is hit a wall.

CITs asked to determine legal status of real estate investors abroad (Business Recorder) - ISLAMABAD (October 30 2005): The Central Board of Revenue (CBR) has directed the Commissioners of Income Tax (CITs) to examine the legal status of persons investing in real estate business in United Arab Emirates (UAE) for desired changes in the Income Tax Ordinance 2001 to deal with such investors.

State official speaks at first meeting of area real estate investors association (The News-Messenger) - On Oct. 17, the Sandusky County Area Real Estate Investors Association had its first meeting at Elks Lodge 169, Fremont, with 42 people in attendance.