ANAHEIM, CA-The direct vacancy rate dips below 10% for the first time in four years in a performance that Voit Commercial Brokerage calls "second only to the year 2000."

LOS ANGELES-Meta Housing Corp. lines up the construction and permanent financing from five sources and will soon break ground for the 275-unit Northwest Gateway Apartments just west of Downtown.

SAN BERNARDINO, CA-The $82.5-million industrial project will be a venture of Trammell Crow Co. and ING Clarion Partners' Lion Industrial Trust on a 101-acre site.

CENTURY CITY, CA-The former Studley broker, who also spent 13 years with Grubb & Ellis, becomes a senior director at the Los Angeles-West office of Cushman & Wakefield.

MARINA DEL REY, CA-The Century City-based investment firm agrees to buy the 450-unit Water Terrace apartment tower from Equity Residential for $305 million as part of the $340-million plan.

PASADENA, CA-The Colorado-based REIT buys the partially constructed Del Mar Station and plans to complete the development and leasing of the mixed-use apartment and retail project.

IRVINE, CA-The $2-billion communications giant signs a 10-year, two-month deal for 685,000 sf at the Irvine Co.'s University Research Park at UCI, one of the largest office leases in Orange County history.

VENTURA, CA-The Palo Alto-based REIT acquires the 145-unit Woodside Village and the 28-unit Pinehurst Apartments.