Real estate titles still backed up (New Orleans Times-Picayune)

Real estate titles still backed up (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
Abstractors are frustrated, heads of real estate companies are growing furious and the title insurance industry is saying that something has to be done.

Real-estate event a hot ticket (Tallahassee Democrat)
Florida State University's Real Estate Trends & Networking Conference is apparently one of those must-attend events of the year. There are already more than 500 registered to attend the sold-out two-day event, which kicks off this evening at the University Center Club.

San Diego ranks as top real estate investment market (San Diego Daily Transcript via Yahoo! News)
Although a continuous flow of capital has kept the real estate industry stable overall, growth over the next year is likely to be more moderate compared to the robust levels of recent months, according to Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2006, just released by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.