McLEAN, VA—Affordable housing developers will like the program for its cost-efficient while investors will welcome another vehicle through which to participate in the tax-exempt housing market.

McLEAN, VA—What is different about this program from the typical direct placement of such bonds is that because Freddie is buying the notes costs will be 40% less, Freddie Mac's Shaun Smith tells GlobeSt.com's Erika Morphy.

ROCKVILLE, MD—Cassidy Turley secured the financing on behalf of JBG Cos., which owns 5635 Fishers Lane.

WASHINGTON, DC—The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development is taking 85,000-square feet in Bethesda and the Department of Veterans Affairs has renewed its space at 1800 G Street, NW.

LANDOVER, MD—The buyer of the warehouse at 6100 Columbia Park Rd. was Philadelphia-based Exeter Property Group, Avison Young's Matthew Clinebell tells GlobeSt.com.

LANDOVER, MD—Earlier this year an industrial building at 6300 Columbia Park Rd. traded for $9.7 million.

WASHINGTON, DC—JBG Cos. has an active pipeline with two groundbreakings occurring in the District and Rosslyn this week.

CHEVY CHASE, MD—The company is partnering with Roi-Tan Investments to buy the historic Cigar Factory on the Cooper River waterfront.