Linda Stein, also known as the “Realtor to the stars”, was found beaten to death at her New York apartment today.

Her clientele included Hollywood stars such as Madonna, Angelina Jolie and Michael Douglas.

CNN reports that the broker she worked for was quoted saying that he assumed she fell and hit her head and when he found out she was beaten to death, couldn’t imagine anyone wanting to murder Stein.

I know the market has changed for buyers and sellers, but it’s definitely not something to murder someone over. Or is it? Apparently being a Realtor is a very dangerous job!

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NEW YORK (AP) — BlackBerry service was being restored Wednesday morning after an overnight outage that left millions of users without mobile access to their e-mail on the popular device.

Research in Motion Ltd., the Canadian company that provides the devices and e-mail service, said the service interruption began Tuesday night, affecting users in North America.

WALL ST. JOURNAL: Problems hit users worldwide

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RISMedia announces nation’s top 500 brokerages in 19th Annual Power Broker Survey

The results of this year’s Power Broker Survey by RISMedia reveal that while sales volume was down by about $100 million from 2005, the majority of the top 500 real estate firms managed to find the opportunity in the 2006 market. This was welcome news for many leading brokerages, which had to formulate new strategies and work hard to stay successful, against an onslaught of negative market forecasts. Click Read More
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The Federal Reserve left a key interest rate unchanged on Wednesday while taking note of the recent weaker economic performance and higher inflation pressures.

The central bank voted to leave the federal funds rate, the interest that banks charge each other, at 5.25 percent. It marked the sixth straight meeting in which the Fed has kept the rate the same. Read the rest of this entry »