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Real estate ownership has become definition of American Dream (San Francisco Chronicle) - When a press release from a frustrated young woman threatening to sue the real estate industry "for the sake of her generation" if she couldn't get a mortgage found its way into my inbox, I was intrigued. Despite the dubious premise of her threats, Carolyn...

In Aspen, Real Estate, Business Replace Tourism (KMGH 7 Denver) - Aspen's labor market has experienced seismic changes in the last decade that signal the fading of the tourism economy and the emergence of a new, real estate-based regime.

China amends real estate law in favour of homeowners (The Herald) - BEIJING. China’s real estate law has been ammended to ensure homeowners are compensated for property taken from them by the government, state media said on Friday, amid rising public demand for protection of land use rights.

Realize Big Returns with Real Estate (Benton Evening News) - (ARA) - It's a buyer's market, which is great news for real estate investors. There are profits to be made just about everywhere you turn these days.

Buffalo's Business: No real estate boom means no subprime calamity (The Buffalo News) - Sometimes, there’s an upside to not being a boomtown. While we regularly gripe about our sluggish job growth, our below-average incomes and our high taxes, our tepid housing market is keeping us on the fringes of the still-developing subprime lending storm and the end of the nationwide real estate boom.

Opus Project & Development enters Romanian real estate market (Nine O'Clock) - Cosmopolis residential condominium, with a market value of EUR 1 bln. is the first real estate project developed in Romania by the Turkish company Opus Project & Development and it means an investment of EUR 700 M, Murat Kavurga, company general manager told a press conference yesterday, Rompres informs.

Westinghouse landlord-to-be a big player in real estate (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Of the many people on hand last month to celebrate Westinghouse Electric's new Cranberry headquarters, the least-known figure in the front row was a Georgia real estate man seated with his legs ...

Creative strategies skirt taxes on real estate deals (The Palm Beach Post) - In a maneuver to lower their tax bills that is confusing public property appraisers, sellers and buyers of some of Florida's most valuable real estate have low-balled publicly recorded sale prices by at least $1 billion since 2005.

Real estate transactions (Star-Gazette) - Real estate transactions are public records obtained by the Star-Gazette from deeds on file in the county clerks' offices. Real estate agencies do not provide the information.

REAL ESTATE PEOPLE (Asheville Citizen-Times) - Do you have real estate news? Send it to business@citizen-times.com. We will publish it as soon as possible, in the order in which it was received.