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Real estate people (Asheville Citizen-Times) - Do you have real estate news? Send it to business@citizen-times.com, with "Real Estate People" in the subject line. We will publish items as soon as possible, in the order in which they were received.

Land Holding Company to carry out $200m real estate project in Ramallah, Al Beir (Zawya) - 16 December 2007 AMMAN (Petra) - The Land Holding Company, a subsidiary of Al Rajhi Group, on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Palestinian Investment Fund to carry out a real estate project at a cost of $200 million.

Real-estate-tax bills changing (CentralOhio.com) - FREMONT -- Sandusky County residents will see some changes in their real-estate-tax bills early next year. One of the major changes from the old bill is that residents will see a breakdown of what their tax money is funding.

REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS (Bradenton Herald) - Real estate transactions recorded at the Manatee County Courthouse:

Real-estate-tax bills changing (Fremont News-Messenger) - FREMONT -- Sandusky County residents will see some changes in their real-estate-tax bills early next year.

Alexandria Real Estate Declares Dividend (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. on Thursday announced a regular quarterly dividend of 78 cents per share. The real estate investment trust said it will pay the dividend Jan. 15 to shareholders of record Jan. 2.

Real Estate Weekly -- Dec. 14 (Market Watch) - Data from ForSaleByOwner.com shows that real-estate agents and brokers will collect $55 billion in commissions during 2007. The figure is down substantially from last year's commissions, when they raked in $65 billion, and 2005, when they collected $68 billion.

Real Estate People & Places (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Real estate news in brief.

Real estate commissions drop $9 billion from 2006 (Daily Press) - The slowing home sales market has pinched Realtors' pocketbooks despite an increase in the amount per house. Real estate agents will collect a total of more than $56 billion in commissions this year, according to estimates from the Web site ForSale ByOwner.com. That's down from $65 billion last year and $68 billion in 2005, at the height of the real estate boom.

DWC signs strategic partnership with Dubai Real Estate Institute (AME Info) - Dubai World Central (DWC) - the huge140 square kilometre urban aviation project under construction in Jebel Ali, Dubai - is joining hands with Dubai Real Estate Institute (DREI), the leading academic institute for real estate studies and real estate development programs in the Middle East, in a long-term partnership to provide DWC employees and executives real estate education and professional ...