ORLANDO-The privately held, Birmingham, AL-based mortgage-banking firm provides a $7.76 million loan to Philadelphia-based New Coquina Bay Associates LLC for the 16-year-old, 200-unit, 27-building Coquina Bay multifamily community.

ATLANTA-The locally based developer also sells a multifamily product and two acres of adjacent land for $34 million in Austin, its last holdings in that Texas market.

ORLANDO-Larry Furlong, newly promoted Florida/Caribbean Agency sales manager for New York-based Fidelity National Title Insurance Co., tells GlobeSt.com he sees little activity in new office construction in Tampa and Orlando.

ATLANTA-Eben Hardie and partner Mal Hill have contracted to buy 63 acres for an undisclosed price from Gwinnett County land speculators Wayne Mason and Frank Hanna Jr. to develop two distribution centers about 50 miles northeast of Downtown Atlanta.

ATLANTA-The 120,000-sf, open-air shopping center on 10 acres in suburban Vinings, GA signs Ann Taylor Loft to a 6,000-sf, estimated 10-year lease in the 7,500-sf building where asking rents hover between $30 to $50 per sf.

ORLANDO-A Volusia County civic association plans to appeal Circuit Court Judge Edwin P.B. Sanders' ruling on the estimated $12.5 million supercenter, one mile from an existing Wal-Mart in West New Smyrna Beach, FL.

ORLANDO-Elected county officials here are setting up a nonprofit corporation that will issue tax-free bonds for the $325 million cost of the proposed 450,000-sf, 80-acre Osceola Convention Center and 800-room hotel, 10 minutes from Walt Disney World.

FORT LAUDERDALE-Eighteen percent of all available space in the South Florida county's 27.6 million-sf inventory is sublease product, a new study by Insignia/ESG shows. Of the 790,151 sf of new completions last year, 65% of the space remains vacant.