Here's a list of the top ten most common home buying mistakes people make:

1. Going it alone.

2. Buying at first sight.

3. Not getting pre-qualified and pre-approved.

4. Overbuying.

5. Misplacing your trust.

6. Relying on oral agreements.

7. Skipping the fine print.

8. Forgetting or betting on resale.

9. Making an unconditional offer.

10. Having buyer's remorse.

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Real estate joint venture falls though - Detroit Free Press

10 Jan 2007 at 5:48pm

Real estate joint venture falls though
Detroit Free Press, MI - 5 hours ago
Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust said Wednesday that it has terminated talks with Canadian-based RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust to create a ….
RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust and Ramco-Gershenson …. CCNMatthews (press release)
Ramco, RioCan End Joint Venture Talks Houston Chronicle
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Commercial Real Estate: A Mutual Affair - CoStar Group

10 Jan 2007 at 9:21pm

Commercial Real Estate : A Mutual Affair
CoStar Group, MD - 2 hours ago
Mutual fund managers both at home and abroad are preparing to launch a new slate of global real estate funds in the coming months as a way of feeding a ….
Kensington Investment Group Launches the Kensington Global Real …. PR Newswire (press release)
Kensington Investment Group Launches the Kensington Global Real …. PR Newswire (press release)
Local banks bolster real estate services Korea Herald (subscription)
Business Wire (press release) - dBusinessNews Atlanta (press release)
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Tech trends rock real estate world (CNN Money)

10 Jan 2007 at 9:40am

Home buyers and sellers have already seized much of the power once in the hands of exclusively of real estate professionals. But they're about to get stronger still.

Real Estate Gauge: Private Residential Investment as a Percentage of GDP (See…

10 Jan 2007 at 11:36am

Eddy Elfenbein submits: Here's a graph showing private residential investment [PRI ] as a percentage of GDP. It's a good gauge of how well the real estate market is doing. The number averages about 4.7%, with a standard deviation of about 0.7%.

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Los Angeles drawing real estate investors from Korea after lifting … - Inte…

8 Jan 2007 at 8:04am

Los Angeles drawing real estate investors from Korea after lifting ….
International Herald Tribune, France - 11 hours ago
Choung is among a growing number of Koreans scooping up real estate in the United States and elsewhere after the overseas investment cap in their country ….
New wave of Korean investors eye real estate in LA enclave KESQ
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Dividend Capital Total Realty Trust Announces Real Estate Acquisitions - Busi…

8 Jan 2007 at 2:21pm

Dividend Capital Total Realty Trust Announces Real Estate Acquisitions
Business Wire (press release), CA - 4 hours ago
The property was acquired pursuant to a joint venture agreement with an affiliate of Westcore Properties, a leading west coast real estate operator with ….
Commercial Real Estate Still Performing Well Black Enterprise
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Realize Big Returns with Real Estate (Hope Star)

8 Jan 2007 at 6:49pm

(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.

Six Real Estate Lawyers Move Out From MoFo (Law.com via Yahoo! Finance)

8 Jan 2007 at 2:52am

A group of Morrison & Foerster real estate and land use partners are headed to 100-lawyer real estate firm Cox, Castle & Nicholson. The moves echo a trend that larger law firms are increasingly seeing, of less lucrative practices falling by the wayside.

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A Coming of Age for the Global Real Estate Market - New York Times

6 Jan 2007 at 4:05pm

What Investment A Coming of Age for the Global Real Estate Market
New York Times, NY - 8 hours ago
ProLogis is among several domestic REITs that are steadily expanding into foreign commercial real estate .. The company has built a solid base in Japan, ….
Want to invest in real estate ? Be careful St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Can REITs run again in 2007? MarketWatch
New FTSE index to track REITs Reuters Italia
London Stock Exchange - Motley Fool UK
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Real Estate Investing: Flipping Properties - Best Syndication

6 Jan 2007 at 11:14pm

Best Syndication Real Estate Investing: Flipping Properties
Best Syndication, CA - 54 minutes ago
A lot of people these days are preaching about the buying and holding method of gaining wealth with real estate .. There indeed may come a time in your life ….

ERA Wilder buys real estate company (The State)

7 Jan 2007 at 12:04am

CHAPIN ? ERA Wilder Realty has bought Old Colony GMAC Real Estate, which has offices in Santee and Manning. With the purchase, ERA Wilder has more than 400 real estate agents at 14 locations in the Carolinas.

Real Estate Briefs: Jan. 7, 2006 (Naples Daily News)

7 Jan 2007 at 12:06am

A list of real estate related news briefs.

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Challenges for real estate: 2007 and beyond - Express Estates

5 Jan 2007 at 6:14am

Express Estates Challenges for real estate : 2007 and beyond
Express Estates, India - 1 hour ago
Year 2006 has been a fantastic year for the real estate sector. Most stakeholders emerged as winners. Riding on the back of exceptional economic performance ….

Keller Williams Real Estate Agent Selects Ideas Squared for … - PR.com (pre…

5 Jan 2007 at 3:12am

Keller Williams Real Estate Agent Selects Ideas Squared for ….
PR.com (press release), NY - 4 hours ago
COM)– Ideas Squared is pleased to announce that James Smith, a top-performing real estate agent with Keller Williams - Charlotte, has been selected to ….
Convergent Acquisitions and Development, Inc. Announces Record …. dBusinessNews Charlotte (press release)
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County Officials Indict Real Estate Crime Suspects (Cleveland - NewsNet5 via …

4 Jan 2007 at 6:40pm

Cuyahoga County officials cracked down on suspected real estate criminals Thursday, arresting several people during a sting operation and marking the first major roundup since the county formed its foreclosure prevention program, reported NewsChannel5's Angie Lau.

San Diego commercial real estate may slow, but will stay strong in 2007 (San …

4 Jan 2007 at 6:21pm

San Diego County's office, industrial and retail markets are projected to continue to be healthy throughout 2007, according to a commercial real-estate brokerage report.

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Real estate challenges for 2007 - Financial Times

2 Jan 2007 at 5:47pm

Real estate challenges for 2007
Financial Times, UK - 5 hours ago
…. On both sides of the Atlantic, real estate emerges as one of the greatest concerns heading for 2007. Real estate stocks comfortably beat all others last year. ….
Home Sales 2006: It was a very good year San Antonio Express
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Real estate boom to gain momentum - Hindu

2 Jan 2007 at 4:25pm

Real estate boom to gain momentum
Hindu, India - 7 hours ago
NEW DELHI: The real estate boom of 2006 is set to gain further momentum in 2007 to get India foreign capital of over Rs. 8,000 crore ….
Megadeal: Inside a New York Real Estate Coup Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Realty bites 30% into venture capital funds Financial Express
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ASU making strides in real estate (The Arizona Republic)

2 Jan 2007 at 10:59pm

ASU's W.P. Carey School of Business wants to become a top real estate educator. It now offers an MBA with a real estate concentration and a Ph.D. in business administration/real estate finance. And this month, a top scholar of real estate finance will begin teaching.

Israel stocks leap; real estate, Polar, Internet Gold advance (Market Watch)

2 Jan 2007 at 10:58pm

TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) — Israeli stocks closed richly green on Monday, taking an initial crack at a fifth straight year of gains, as the real estate and tech sectors took off and the benchmark index was led by gains in Bank Hapoalim, Africa-Israel Investments and Teva Pharmaceutical.

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Real Estate and the Post-Crash Economy - Gold Seek

31 Dec 2006 at 1:27pm

Real Estate and the Post-Crash Economy
Gold Seek - 11 hours ago
It is a very thought-provoking piece on the importance of what he calls the " real estate industrial complex" to the economy. Loaded ….

Real estate boom of '06 to gain momentum in '07 - Economic Times

31 Dec 2006 at 1:13am

Real estate boom of '06 to gain momentum in '07
Economic Times, India - 23 hours ago
NEW DELHI: The booming real estate market will gain momentum and is likely to attract foreign investment worth Rs 8,000 crore in 2007, an Assocham study has ….
Get real for an estate Financial Express
Realty bites 30% into venture capital funds Financial Express
New Year to bring in Rs 8,000 cras FDI Economic Times
Calcutta Telegraph - Financial Express
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Real Estate: A buyer's market, but still expensive (BizJournals)

1 Jan 2007 at 12:49am

Compared with many Mainland markets that are in a real estate free-fall, prices and sales activity in Hawaii will still be pretty solid in 2007. But it's becoming a buyer's market, with quick sales, multiple offers and aggressive pricing of fixer-uppers definitely a thing of the past.

Growing dependence on real estate loans for small banks is a concern for fede…

1 Jan 2007 at 12:08am

Community banks across the state owe a rising percentage of their loan and earnings growth to real estate loans during the past two years.

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