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Real Estate People & Places (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Gloria J. Schucolsky of Peters has been elected senior vice president of Howard Hanna Real Estate Services.

Commercial real estate giant CB Richard Ellis OK'd to buy rival (The Press-Enterprise) - DALLAS - CB Richard Ellis Group Inc., the world's largest commercial real estate services company, has been cleared by federal regulators to acquire rival Trammell Crow Co. for nearly $1.8 billion.

Buy Manhattan Real Estate Now, Before the Class of '06 Does (SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance) - Yaser Anwar submits: There was a nice article in the NYT about Manhattan's real estate and the right time to buy it. Excerpt from "A Season of Lofty Expectations": "An analysis by The New York Observer found that the median sale price for Manhattan co-ops and condos tends to spike in the second quarter [... ]

Property Perspectives: What’s Really Happening in The Local Real Estate Market? (Berkeley Daily Planet) - The news headlines resound of doom and gloom for the real estate market; but what is the back story? Most of these articles refer to the national scene, and to certain parts of the country that are the hardest hit. “18 percent drop here, 16 percent drop there, no relief in sight.”

Real estate fund norms soon (Business Standard India) - The guidelines for launch of real estate funds are likely to be issued soon, said A P Kurian, chairman, Association of Mutual Funds in India. “We along with Securities and Exchange Board of India have worked on several areas and we are expecting guidelines soon,” he said.

SBT launches weekly real estate news bulletin (Small Business Times) - Small Business Times has launched the BizTimes Real Estate Weekly, the region’s first e-mail news bulletin devoted to covering the commercial and residential real estate industries in southeastern Wisconsin.

Point2 Technologies Achieves 100,000 Real Estate Software Subscribers Milestone (T-Net British Columbia) - Vancouver, BC, November 24, 2006--(T-Net)--Point2 Technologies announced that subscriptions to its real estate online marketing and lead management software, led by Point2 Agent, crossed the 100,000 mark.

IBB stokes real estate with BLP hire (Legal Week) - Southeast firm IBB has secured a trophy hire with the appointment of Berwin Leighton Paisner real estate partner Vicky Stokes, the firm announced today (24 November).

Chase Freidig loves science, but eyes real estate career (Devils Lake Journal) - Devils Lake sophomore Chase Freidig says he thoroughly enjoys Jim Samson’s science classes. He also says he’d someday maybe like to get into a business of some sort - maybe the real estate world where his mom and dad are.

BRIEFING - ASIA REAL ESTATE - NOV 24, 2006 (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance) - Bahrain is fully committed to protecting the investment of foreigners in the real estate and other economic sectors in the country, a top official has said. All regulations and laws are in place to protect the interest of foreigners who own properties in Bahrain, said Prime Minister's Court Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa.