San Diego ranks as top real estate investment market (San Diego Daily Transcript via Yahoo! News)

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.

Real estate firm in hot water (The Mercury)
A HOBART real estate agency yesterday admitted falsely advertising a property as "virtual waterfront". Glendean Investments, trading as PRD Nationwide Eastern Shore, pleaded guilty yesterday to making a false or misleading statement in the advertisement for a Sandford property, east of Hobart.

Parrots, Chainsaws in High Stakes Real Estate Battle (WPMI 15)
The wild parrots of San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, those colorful birds made famous by a book and movie, may be evicted from towering trees where they like to spend their days, proving that in the cutthroat Bay Area real estate market, even feathered celebrities have it tough.

Cendant Real Estate Services Acquires Coldwell Banker Pacific Properties, Ltd. (Real Estate News)
RISMEDIA, Nov. 3 Cendant Corporation (NYSE:CD) announced that its real estate services subsidiary, NRT Incorporated, has acquired Coldwell Banker Pacific Properties, Ltd. and Coldwell Banker Commercial Pacific Properties, Ltd. in Honolulu. With this announcement, Coldwell Banker Pacific Properties, the largest residential real estate brokerage in Hawaii, will now be owned and operated by NRT.