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A Guide To Real Estate Derivatives (Investopedia via Yahoo! Finance) - These instruments provide exposure to the real estate market without having to buy and sell property.

Earnings reports darken outlook for commercial real estate (Market Watch) - Shares of real-estate companies fall as lower earnings than expected fuel fears that credit issues and slowing economic growth could cause the market to deteriorate further in the second half of 2008.

UPDATE: Earnings Reports Darken Outlook For Commercial Real Estate (Nasdaq) - BOSTON (Dow Jones) -- Shares of real-estate companies fell Wednesday as lower earnings than expected fueled fears that credit issues and slowing economic growth could cause the market to deteriorate further in the second half of 2008.

Dogs of the Real Estate-15 index (Haaretz Daily) - The implosion of Nidar Construction & Development and the convulsions at Dadeland Towers and TRD are just the start. Small real estate companies are going to fall like a house of cards in the year to come. Why should you care?

Here and Now: Real Estate (KJZZ Tempe) - Home prices have fallen by more than a quarter in the past year. Here and Now looked at what's going on in real estate and how much farther prices will drop. Guests also discussed the massive housing bill signed into law by President Bush will help.

ING Real Estate eyes $4.7 bln global fund of funds (Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News) - LONDON, July 30 (Reuters) - ING Real Estate is looking to raise 1 billion euros in the next 12-18 months and up to 3 billion euros ($4.68 billion) longer-term for a new global property fund of funds, a spokeswoman for the company said on Wednesday.

Subprime lending not main trigger of real estate bubble (PhysOrg) - (PhysOrg.com) -- Critics often point to subprime mortgage lending - the funding of home loans to borrowers with less-than-perfect credit - as the culprit in the unsustainable boom in U.S. home prices that eventually derailed the real estate and mortgage markets.

Pitkin County real estate transactions (The Aspen Times) - A listing of real estate transactions recorded in Pitkin County in 2008 (updated through July 23).

Apocalypse Dow! New York Firm to Ax 96 Real Estate, Securities Lawyers (The New York Observer) - Guess attorneys aren't the cockroaches of the corporate world after all, able to survive cataclysms while their more fallible colleagues in finance and real estate fall. Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft will lay off 96 attorneys from its New York and London offices thanks to a shortage of real estate finance and securities work, according to a Bloomberg report: ``We're in the process of ...

Indiabulls Real Estate unit to set up power plant in MP (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News) - MUMBAI, July 30 (Reuters) - Indiabulls Real Estate Ltd said on Wednesday its power services subsidiary has entered a memorandum of understanding with the government of Madhya Pradesh to set up a 2,640 megawatt power project.