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High-end real estate market still sizzling (USA Today) - Real estate broker Olivia Hsu Decker guided guests through an $8 million fixer-upper last weekend at an invitation-only open house in Presidio Heights, one of San Francisco's toniest neighborhoods.

Family Finances: Dealing with a real estate agent (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Thinking about taking profits by selling the family home? No. 1 rule: Don't be impressed by a real estate agent's car. Many lease expensive cars such as BMWs or Mercedeses to appear successful. He or she may not be.

Empress City from KSL & Reward Real Estate (India Infoline) - KSL and Industries Ltd, has ventured into realty business and will develop an ambitious integrated township project christened, "Empress City" which is spread over 25 acres in the heart of Orange City, Nagpur The "Empress City" project will be implemented by Reward Real Estate Company Private Ltd. a Wholly owned Subsidiary of KSL and Industries Ltd.

Egal Ahouvi, Delek Real Estate purchase 15 Hilton hotels in U.K. (Haaretz Daily) - Delek Real Estate and Israeli businessman Egal Ahouvi have signed a major deal under which they will purchase 15 Hilton hotels in the United Kingdom for close to 400 million pounds (about NIS 3.3 billion).

Sector movers: Real Estate rattled, Miners improve (ShareCast via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance) - Real Estate took a pasting today despite decent numbers from British Land as profit takers and a Merrill Lynch downgrade to 'neutral' from 'buy' sent the shares lower.

Northern Property Real Estate Investment Trust - Distribution increase announced (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance) - Northern Property Real Estate Investment Trust announced today that its Board of Trustees has approved a 5% increase in distributions to $1.3128 annually. The increase takes effect with the distribution for the month of December 2005.

Morguard Real Estate Investment Trust Announces Bond Redemption Price Information (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance) - Morguard Real Estate Investment Trust announced today the following redemption price of the mortgage bonds of the following issues , which are to be redeemed on December 22, 2005:

Real Estate Applauds Minister Goodale's Decision on Income Trusts (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance) - The Real Property Association of Canada applauds Minister Goodale's decision to increase the dividend tax credit, and eliminate further consideration of taxation of income trusts, including real estate investment trusts .

Global real estate investment to top $500 bln-study (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News) - NEW YORK, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Real estate investment worldwide is likely to exceed a half trillion dollars in 2005 as low interest rates attract investors looking for less risk and high returns, a report released on Wednesday showed.

KFI unveils real estate project - Bahrain (MENAFN) - KFI unveils real estate project - Bahrain