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StreetEasy: NYC Real Estate Research (Lifehacker via Yahoo! News) - StreetEasy is a neat real estate research site that gives you all you need to know about a city (at this time New York only) when shopping for a home.

Summit real estate trust completes deals on $50M worth of acquisitions (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News) - TORONTO (CP) - Summit Real Estate Investment Trust says it has completed several property acquisitions for about $50 million and will supply a $10-million loan for an industrial development deal in Ontario.

Listings build for real estate firms (International Herald Tribune) - More real estate companies listed their shares for trading in Britain during 2005 than in the previous seven years combined as they raised almost £2 billion to take advantage of investor appetite for property.

Telecom Italia sells real-estate assets for 486 million euros (Market Watch) - MILAN (MarketWatch) -- Telecom Italia SpA (TI) Thursday said it has sold real-estate assets for EUR486 million to the Raissa fund, as part of EUR1 billion-worth of property disposals approved Dec. 21.

NAR Provides Access to Updated Study of Emerging Legal Issues in Real Estate (Real Estate News) - RISMEDIA, Dec. 30 — The National Association of Realtors® has made available the key findings from a comprehensive study of legal issues and trends in the real estate industry on its member Web site at www.realtor.org .

Doyle signs real estate, jobless aid bills (The Business Journal of Milwaukee) - Legislation that revises state real estate laws and increases the maximum payments for unemployment insurance has been signed by Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle.

New Ironton real estate agent offers flat fees to customers (The Ironton Tribune) - Think of discount chains and what comes to mind? Wal-Mart? K-Mart? A new real estate agency in Ironton promises to merge the discount sales concept to real estate sales.

DGAP-Ad hoc: Colonia Real Estate AG : Ad hoc announcement §15 WpHG / Edgar Krauss to become new member of (vwd.de) - Ad hoc announcement transmitted by DGAP. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. Today, the supervisory board of Colonia Real Estate AG, Cologne, signed a contract appointing Edgar Krauss, 46, to be a new member of the management board of the company.

South Shore INSIDER: A couple of team players: Former athletes tackle the commercial real estate market (Patriot Ledger) - Rick Schuhwerk and Katie Krein left their marks on the South Shore hockey and soccer scene. Now they’re putting their stamp on the region’s corporate real estate deals.

Neuberger Berman Real Estate Income Fund Announces Monthly Distributions (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - NEW YORK----Dec. 29, 2005--The Board of Directors of Neuberger Berman Real Estate Income Fund Inc. , which trades on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol NRL, has declared monthly distributions of $0.115 per share payable on January 31, 2006, February 28, 2006, and March 31, 2006, to shareholders of record on January 17, 2006, February 15, 2006 and March 15, 2006, respectively.