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Boomers big real estate investors (Boston Herald) - Maybe we should call the baby boomers the real estate boom-ers. A new demographic study reveals the baby boomers - those 78 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964 - have a passion for owning real...

NBK, real estate fund (AME Info) - The National Bank of Kuwait has launched the shariah compliant Islamic European Real Estate Fund. The euro denominated fund is a long-term investment vehicle designed to achieve an expected internal rate of return of 12-15% per annum; investments will be made in a portfolio of office, retail, warehouse and residential properties with an emphasis on the German market.

Real estate agent, lawyer or both? (Bankrate.com via Yahoo! Finance) - If you have a good agent in most cases you don't also need to hire an attorney. That is, until you do, says Real Estate Adviser Steve McLinden.

Power Shift in House and Senate to Impact Commercial Real Estate Industry (Commercial Property News) - Commercial real estate business leaders will soon have new leaders to woo on Capitol Hill, now that the Democratic Party has taken control of both the House and, apparently, the Senate.

Real estate spoken here (Chicago Tribune) - When Cristina Matos became a real estate agent three years ago, she worried that her accent, a reminder of her Portuguese origins, would scare off potential clients.

TV profits from real estate boom (The Telegraph) - New Delhi, Nov. 11: Television too is making money out of the real estate boom. Over the past year, there has been a three-fold increase in the number of such ads.

NBK launches a new Islamic European Real Estate Fund (AME Info) - National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) launched a diversified real estate fund which is compliant with Islamic Shari'ah, the Islamic European Real Estate Fund.

Real Estate Transfers (Centre Daily Times) - Real Estate Transfers The following property transactions, those most recently released to the Centre Daily Times, were recorded from Oct. 16,2006, through Oct. 20,2006, in the office of the Centre County Recorder of Deeds.

The Wall Street Journal and REAL Trends Announce America's Top 200 Real Estate Agents and Teams (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - NEW ORLEANS----America's coastal states--from California to Florida to New York--are where America's top real estate agents and teams ply their craft as they claimed top honors in "The Real Estate Top 200," a new national awards event sponsored by The Wall Street Journal and REAL Trends.

Real estate people (Asheville Citizen-Times) - Tim Harrison, MBA with Sperry Van Ness Whitney Commercial Real Estate, recently earned the Certified Commercial Investment Member designation awarded by the National Association of Realtors.