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Commentary: Real Estate Bargains (Forbes) - A softening housing market is hurting any stock on the fringe of real estate. That's a boon for value investors.

Taipei Real Estate Prices Remain Prohibitively High: Poll (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 News) - Real estate prices in Taipei City remain prohibitively high, with first-time home buyers needing to save for an average of 8.7 years before being able to make a purchase, according to the results of a recent poll released Friday.

TAIPEI REAL ESTATE PRICES REMAIN PROHIBITIVELY HIGH: POLL (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance) - Statistics Real estate prices in Taipei City remain prohibitively high, with first-time home buyers needing to save for an average of 8.7 years before being able to make a purchase, according to the results of a recent poll released Friday.

Istithmar partners with AIG Global Real Estate (Khaleej Times) - DUBAI — Istithmar, has announced the creation of Dar Istithmar Lel Aqarat (DIA) — a strategic joint venture with AIG Global Real Estate — with the aim of establishing a real estate fund focused on the Middle East, North Africa, India, Pakistan, Turkey as well as other emerging markets.

Meridian real estate market holds steady (The Meridian Star) - Meridian’s real estate market is holding steady, but the price of building a new home may be a little higher than it was before Hurricane Katrina, local real estate agents said.

Investing in real estate in northern Cyprus? Find out who owns the land first (Haaretz Daily) - A ruling handed down by a High Court in Britain in the matter of a British couple who purchased land in northern Cyprus may interest hundreds of Israeli real estate investors who have bought properties in the region.

Atherton Trust Delivers First Real Estate Wealth Management Services (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - REDWOOD CITY, Calif.----Sept. 18, 2006--Atherton Trust, the leader in real estate wealth management and trustee services, announced today the company exceeded its third quarter goals due to a significant influx of new clients whose wealth is based on investment grade real estate.

City cleaning up real estate mess (San Diego Union-Tribune) - Sep. 17 (UNION-TRIBUNE): It has been a year since San Diego council members called for an overhaul of the city's real estate department and pressured its director to resign. Now the new director and his staff are updating policies and record-keeping systems and planning to make a lot more money on the city's multibillion-dollar collection of land.

Banks’ real estate loans rise 4.8% at P210 B (Manila Bulletin) - The banking industry’s real estate loans including commercial papers and equity investments for the first six months increased 4.78 percent to P210.2 billion from P200.6 billion last year, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said yesterday.

Real estate industry called unethical (TVNZ) - With the property market booming New Zealanders are buying and selling houses like never before, but is the real estate industry up to scratch?. There's no denying it is a stressful business.