EMERYVILLE, CA-The past year ended with an 11% year-over-year gain in prices, says Zip Realty, while Zillow's Stan Humphries says institutional players will wind down their activity in this area.

DANBURY, CT-The 268-unit garden-style apartment community offers upgrade opportunities to its new ownership, says IPA's Victor Nolletti.

NEW YORK CITY-With pressure exerted by the more aggressively underwritten loans from the last cycle's peak, the fixed-rate maturity payoff rate for 2014 could be less than the results that were achieved in 2013.

ARLINGTON, MA-The 116-unit Brigham Square was completed last year; it has changed hands to a fund advised by Intercontinental Real Estate Corp.

WASHINGTON, DC- Home prices have risen "faster than incomes," says NAR's Lawrence Yun, while mortgage interest rates are "above the record lows of a year ago."

BOSTON-The REIT's acquisition of Vertex Pharmaceuticals' newly opened headquarters represented "a unique opportunity to further diversify SNH's portfolio and increase our exposure to the medical office building segment," says president David Hegarty.

SAN DIEGO-The strip center portfolio, which also includes two office properties, is located mainly in the Midwest and will trade as "a single transaction or multiple transactions," Trigild CFO Josh Hall tells GlobeSt.com.

RESTON, VA-The net lease brokerage has tapped Teal Henderson, who has represented Calkain successfully in two different regions, to seek out industry colleagues interested in becoming part of the company's platform.