DALLAS-The Dallas-Fort Worth borrower goes to market within months of buying the 185,000-sf San Marcos retail center to shave costs with tweaking for a lower interest rate and other cost-savers. Metropolitan Capital Advisors gets the nod from Bear Stearns.

GRAND PRAIRIE, TX-American Hometex has unpacked the imported soft goods' inventory and the crew has settled into its first location in Texas. With that done, the buyer has asked its brokers to find a tenant to share the building.

FORT WORTH-Keller Properties takes the deed to the Courtyards on Calmont, using 1031 Exchange money and a $682,000 loan. The 88%-occupied complex was on the market for six months before it traded.

DALLAS-The 12,000-sf office building at 3003 Carlisle brings $1 million or about $350,000 more than the assessment, thanks to an all-encompassing zoning, location in one of Dallas' pricier neighborhoods and the upside promise across the street.

MESQUITE, TX-A Dallas partnership has repositioned a single-tenant building, bought in May 2002, into a two-tenant retail property. The investment play had the deck stacked in its favor because the structure sits on an out-parcel at a popular mall.

BELLMEAD, TX-A California investment group, buying and selling in a turnover of Texas properties, passes the 17-year-old Eagle Crest Apartments to another California investor, who just happens to own two nearby complexes.

ARLINGTON, TX-An Arlington doctor acquires 13.9 acres along Arbrook Boulevard with a price that ends three years of being on the market. A medical office building is planned for land held by a bank for nearly a decade after it foreclosed.

RICHARDSON, TX-Wells Fargo takes the first step to take back the Omni Richardson Hotel from a Houston company. A new management team is in place and a receiver is scrutinizing fiscal records while talks begin to save the Omni flag.