GARLAND, TX-Sabre Realty Management pulls the 95%-leased Meadow Creek Square from a retail portfolio with JV partner, GE Real Estate Group. The $15.8-million, seven-year loan closes with an 80% LTV and 5.4% interest rate.

HOUSTON-More than 100 journalists and industry experts are expected to attend NAREE's conference May 24-27. As "The World Comes to Houston," NAREE and immediately followed by FIABC's World Congress set up a week packed with seminars and networking events.

DALLAS-The offer expires July 4, but applies to deals of all sizes and terms, says the new team for the 303,720-sf office building. The John Bowles Co. picked up the leasing assignment in a one-month run that collected 10 properties with 686,867 sf.

DALLAS-Autofit Inc. fires up a second Texas location, signing a five-year lease for 45,895 sf just as TA Associates was selling it and 14 others to Sealy & Co. The lease upped occupancy to 100% in a 227,329-sf Brookhollow building.

DALLAS-Gillean Properties polishes off a yearlong project on 216 apartments and 10 townhouses in the Bachman Lake area, securing $6.2 million in a 10-year vehicle with a 4.8% fixed interest rate. About $10,000 per unit went into the turnaround of Gage Place.

DALLAS-A spin-off from Minnesota, EO Systems Inc., sets up shop in April in 15,000 sf at 4010 La Reunion Parkway. Another Lonestar Turnpike building lands a 95,873-sf renewal and expansion and 21,824 sf of industrial space is closed off in Lewisville.

IRVING, TX-A well-known land man decides to pick up the plan to build MacArthur Ranch, a 16.3-acre, going-home site with 29,000 sf now going vertical. With that 100% pre-leased, the team's already talking to prospects for a 20,000-sf second phase.

DALLAS-Sealy & Co. uses a 90%-leveraged loan to take over an 84%-leased, vintage package assessed at $40.1 million after racing past 10 to 20 others trying to win the deal. Deeds change to 10 buildings in Dallas/Fort Worth and five in Houston.