Team spirit turns hockey star into real estate czar

Lenders are collapsing, home sales and prices in many markets are falling and lots of investors are panicking. Not Warren Buffett. He told a group of his real estate managers late last month in Omaha that he sees this as a time of opportunity.

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The man who will try to seize some of those opportunities for him is Ron Peltier, CEO of HomeServices of America, the real estate arm of Berkshire Hathaway and the nation's second-largest residential brokerage firm.