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Alexandria Real Estate Ups Dividend (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Real estate investment trust Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. said Wednesday its board raised its quarterly cash dividend by 3 percent to 74 cents per share.

Briefing - ASIA Real Estate - Dec 14, 2006 (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 News) - US giant Hilton Hotels Corporation announced on December 11 cooperation with RREEF, the real estate and infrastructure investment management arm of Deutsche Bank, and H&Q Asia Pacific, in jointly introducing some 20 garden inns to China.

Study: Growth in Web use for real estate (MSNBC) - A new study finds that more Americans are using the Internet to find a place to live, thanks to the greater wealth of home listings and other real-estate information online.

Real Estate Agent Offers Guns as Incentives for Buyers (Fox News) - A Texas real estate agent is offering buyers a free Glock pistol if they buy a house through her.

Britain: Real Estate Agency Acquired (New York Times) - Countrywide, Britain?s largest real estate agent, said it had agreed to be taken private by the 3i Group in a deal that values the company at about $1.8 billion. The 3i Group, a private equity group based in London, bid about 551 pence ($10.76) a share for Countrywide, a premium of 90 pence to the stock price on Sept. 13, the day before the private equity company said it planned to approach ...

German Stocks Rise, Paced by Hypo Real Estate, Lufthansa Shares (Bloomberg.com) - Dec. 13 (Bloomberg) -- German stocks rose for a fifth day, the longest winning streak since the beginning of October. Hypo Real Estate Holding AG, the commercial property lender, led the advance.

German Stocks Rise, Paced by Hypo Real Estate, Lufthansa Shares (Bloomberg.com) - Dec. 13 (Bloomberg) -- German stocks rose, led by Hypo Real Estate Holding AG. The commercial property lender is undervalued after the latest share-price decline, an analyst said.

German Stocks Rise, Paced by Hypo Real Estate, Lufthansa Shares (Bloomberg.com) - Dec. 13 (Bloomberg) -- German stocks advanced, led by Hypo Real Estate Holding AG. Investors may have discovered the commercial property lender is undervalued after the latest share-price decline, an analyst said.

Trulia.com Announces Real Estate Advisory Board (Real Estate News) - Ten industry leaders to provide strategic perspective to real estate search engine

German Stocks Rise; Hypo Real Estate, Lufthansa Pace the Gain (Bloomberg.com) - Dec. 13 (Bloomberg) -- German stocks advanced, led by Hypo Real Estate Holding AG, Deutsche Lufthansa AG and ThyssenKrupp AG. The benchmark DAX Index added 12.07, or 0.2 percent, to 6488.24 as of 11:22 a.m. in Frankfurt.