IRVINE, CA-The former president of Grubb & Ellis Transfer Agent LLC becomes president and chief operating officer of TNP Securities.

Buyers of distressed office assets will be taking notes this year. Lots of them. That's the word from those who track the market in the US, where note…

IRVINE, CA-More California hotels will lapse into default and foreclosure this year, but improving RevPAR may save some of them, says a forecast by Atlas Hospitality Group.

LOS ANGELES-The locally based development and investment firm is one of 29 bidders on the notes secured by 199 apartment units in Koreatown.

LOS ANGELES-Speakers at the annual AIR Real Estate Market Review & Forecast express "a level above cautious optimism" in the already improving industrial market.

LOS ANGELES-The J.H. Snyder Co. will partner with a subsidiary of Washington Capital Management to develop a vacant two-acre property in the Mid-Wilshire district.

LA QUINTA, CA-Barker Pacific Group and Urdang acquire the 138,000-square-foot building on 14 acres and are already talking to prospective tenants.

LA MIRADA, CA-Continuing its West Coast expansion strategy, the Australian REIT acquires a 278,000-square-foot Living Spaces retail and warehouse building.