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Real Estate Briefs (Stamford Advocate) - The Connecticut Real Estate Commission has declared an amnesty until year's end for real estate businesses that have not been properly licensed by the state Department of Consumer Protection.

Real estate agents miffed over proposed sign ban (Herald Online) - By Matt Garfield The Herald Local real estate agents are crying foul over a plan by the city of Rock Hill to get rid of realty signs that direct people to homes for sale.

First American Real Estate buys stake in LogicEase unit (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - First American Real Estate Solutions said Thursday it established a partnership and has acquired a minority share of financial services company ComplianceEase, a unit of LogicEase Solutions Inc.

Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corporation Added To Standard & Poor's REIT Composite Index (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corporation is proud to announce that it has been added to the Standard & Poor's REIT Composite Index, effective after the close of trading on Friday, September 30, 2005.

Real Estate Digest (The Daily News Transcript) - Friday, September 30, 2005 N ORWOOD - The Real Estate Education Center located at 20 Vernon St. in Norwood will offer a 24 hour State Certified Real Estate Course beginning Oct. 3. The course will meet Mondays and Wednesdays 6-10 p.m. for three weeks. Cost is $225.

Evacuees buying up Lafayette property Area real-estate markets set records (2theadvocate.com) - LAFAYETTE -- The Lafayette real estate market has set records in the past month as evacuees from Hurricane Katrina, and even Rita, buy up available properties, a Realtor told a meeting Thursday.

Send us your real estate news (The Daily News Transcript) - Friday, September 30, 2005 T he Daily News Transcript welcomes your real estate news. Send your press releases, photos and briefs to Assistant Editor Liz Taurasi, Daily News Transcript, 254 Second Ave., Needham, MA 02494. You may also e-mail to etauras@cnc.com or fax us at 781-433-8375.

Stakes Raised in Vegas Real Estate (TheStreet.com) - Las Vegas real estate has been high-rollin', but investors are fretting about a slowdown.

Hedge Funds Look To Real Estate To Boost Returns, (Investors Offshore) - An investment symposium in Monaco has heard how hedge funds are increasingly training their sights on the real estate sector in an attempt to boost their returns to investors, which are expected to fall to 5% this year, down from 15% in 2003.

Real Estate Flipping and Foreclosure Trends Continue to Rise (Real Estate News) - RISMEDIA, Sept. 30, 2005 — The stigma regarding flipping real estate properties came about in the 1990s. According to Michael Urbanski, CEO of USHUD.COM™ ( www.ushud.com ), a subsidiary of Heavy Hammer, "Flipping today is different than it was in the 1990s. To the savvy investor, flipping real estate means that the home buyer takes the title to the property as they should, renovations are made