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Real estate agent banned for $100,000 mortgage scam (Stuff) - A real estate agent found to have been the driving force behind a $100,000 mortgage scam has been banned from the job.

Is the Time Right for Real Estate? (Morningstar.com via Yahoo! Finance) - Real estate is a good diversifier, but now's the time to trim, rather than add to, a position.

Yahoo down on real estate ad worries; eBay gains in early going (Market Watch) - SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of large Internet companies opened mixed Tuesday morning, with Yahoo Inc. under pressure amid concerns about its advertising exposure to the softening real-estate market.

Training & Business Development: Terry Farr Real Estate School Joins RealtyU Network (Real Estate News) - School is fully accredited real estate education center

Agassi's post-tennis career: real estate (Stuff) - NEW YORK: American tennis star Andre Agassi, who retired from center court earlier this month, has wasted no time in building a new career - in real estate.

German Stocks Rise, Paced by Deutsche Boerse, Hypo Real Estate (Bloomberg.com) - Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) -- German stocks rose, led by Deutsche Boerse AG and Hypo Real Estate Holding AG. The benchmark DAX Index rose 27.6, or 0.5 percent, to 5929.26 as of 9:06 a.m. in Frankfurt. The HDAX Index of the country's 110 biggest companies climbed 0.4 percent.

Commerical real estate news digest (San Jose Mercury News) - Equity International, a private-equity firm affiliated with billionaire Sam Zell's Equity Group Investments, said it bought a stake in a Chinese home builder, its first investment in the country. Equity International paid $10 million for 14 percent of Xinyuan Real Estate, a home builder based in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province. China said last week that real-estate investments rose 24

SDSU Real Estate Program Gets New Leader (San Diego Business Journal) - Patric Hendershott has been tapped to serve as visiting chairman in the real estate program of San Diego State University’s College of Business Administration.

Many Koreans would invest more in Real Estate (Turks.US) - A majority of Koreans take investment in real estate the most effective means to increase their wealth, despite a series of strong anti-real estate speculation measures by the government, a poll shows.

Arcapita sells US real estate portfolios for $525 million (Mena Report) - Arcapita - a leading international investment firm, headquartered in Bahrain, announced today it has sold its interest in two assisted living real estate portfolios in the United States to Sunrise REIT, a Canadian listed trust, for an aggregate transaction value of approximately $525 million.