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Be Equipped as You Enter Miami Real Estate Investing (Turks.US) - Want to try out real estate investing? For sure, you heard lots of good news about real estate investing in magazines, newspapers and television shows.

Construction/real estate 21% of business output (Orange County Register) - Blog: Jonathan Lansner reports on the Orange County real estate market.

TOKYO: 4 arrested in real estate swindle (Asahi.com) - Prosecutors here Wednesday arrested four people in connection with an alleged attempt to swindle an investment fund executive of 1.1 billion yen in a real estate deal.

Real Estate Agent Shot At Office (WCVB TheBostonChannel.com via Yahoo! News) - Police are investigating the shooting of a real estate agent who was scheduled to meet clients Monday night at his Fall River office. NewsCenter 5's Jack Harper reported that Anthony Alberto was recovering Tuesday and talking with police about his brush with death.

CPP Investment Board acquires 39% stake in U.S. real estate joint venture (Investment Executive) - CPP Investment Board announced today that it has committed US$125 million to acquire a 39 per cent interest in a joint venture sponsored by Callahan Capital Partners, a U.S.-based real estate private equity firm.

“The actual boom on the Romanian real estate market will occur in five-ten years’ time” (Nine O'Clock) - Interview with Mr. Ciprian Lopata, CEO Arco Real Estate Consulting. Which were the targets that Arco Real Estate Consulting had in mind upon entering the Romanian market?

Impending dilution in Indiabulls Real Estate (The Hindu) - Plans by Indiabulls Real Estate to significantly expand its equity and foray into new businesses such as telecom and retail could call for caution while investing in the stock.

Victims' families testify as jury weighs death for real estate agents' killer (AccessNorthGA) - The Associated Press - BRUNSWICK, Ga. Tears were shed in the witness stand and the jury box Wednesday as family and friends of two slain Cobb County real estate agents bared their grief, still raw after nearly four years, to jurors weighing the death penalty for the women's killer.

Romanian real estate market stands for a third of the Eastern European average supply (Nine O'Clock) - While the Romanian real estate market continuously grows, the property supply is a third of the average in the Eastern-European countries and almost one seventh of the Western European average, according to Impact Developer & Contractor, Rompres informs.

Humphreys Guilty of Murder in Real Estate Slayings (WTOC 11 Savannah) - The death penalty phase begins today in Brunswick in the trial of a man convicted of murder in the slayings of two Cobb County real estate agents in 2003.