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Housing futures: Insurance against a real estate bust? (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Housing bubble got you troubled? Now you can invest in housing futures as a hedge against the possibility that your local real estate bubble might burst and drive down the value of your home.

Perlmutter, O'Donnell pitch to real estate agents (Rocky Mountain News) - Candidates for Colorado's 7th Congressional District made their pitches to real estate agents today, one saying bankers should be kept out of the real estate business and the other saying he believes in free enterprise.

More and More Web Sites Angle for Piece of 'for-Sale-By-Owner' Real Estate Market (RedNova) - By Jen Degregorio More than one angry real estate broker has called Robert Collier to complain about his Web site, sellhomesyourself.com.

Tougher rules for real estate agents become law (Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal) - Future real estate agents will need more classroom education before they can pursue a license under a bill signed into law Friday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Schwarzenegger signs real estate bill into law (Sacramento Business Journal) - Future real estate agents will have to complete all three Department of Real Estate-mandated courses before they can take the license examination after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed AB 2429 into law Friday. The real estate industry-sponsored measure takes effect after Sept. 31.

Dallas real estate broker sets up shop in Houston (Dallas Business Journal) - Venture Commercial Real Estate has selected Houston as the site for its first office outside of Dallas.

Pitfalls of using IRA to buy real estate (Bankrate.com via Yahoo! Finance) - In theory, it's true that you can invest in real estate using IRA funds, but in practice it's difficult, says CPA George Saenz.

Real estate auction is the city's largest (News 14 Charlotte) - CHARLOTTE -- Many in the local real estate community are buzzing about the city’s largest real estate auction. Saturday, 35 properties – including single- and multi-family homes, as well as land parcels – will be up for auction.

Real Estate (The Chapel Hill News) - Carrboro is the new Manhattan. Carrboro may lack skyscrapers, subways and seaports, but the constraints that keep real estate values strong in Manhattan apply to Carrboro as well: an area with strictly defined boundaries and virtually no undeveloped land.

Perlmutter, O'Donnell Make Pitches To Real Estate Agents (The Denver Channel) - Candidates for Colorado's 7th Congressional District made their pitches to real estate agents Friday, one saying bankers should be kept out of the real estate business and the other saying he believes in free enterprise.