NEW YORK CITY-The owners of West End Towers, the 10-year-old Upper West Side property, turned to American Property Financing to take advantage of current market conditions. The deal is the largest single-project DUS loan transaction in its history, according to Fannie Mae.

NORWALK, CT–Now that it has raised $275 million in a discretionary equity fund, HEI Hospitality says it wants to leverage the fund's finances so that it can acquire about $800 million in the next two years on new hotel acquisitions in major US markets.

FRISCO, TX-With 57 acres now in hand, Duke Realty is planning its first office and retail development in Dallas/Fort Worth. The build-out plan's still being fine-tuned, but a 100,000-sf or 200,000-sf spec structure could be on-line by year's end.

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WASHINGTON, DC-Law firm Collier Shannon Scott decides there is no place like home and signs an early lease renewal on its 117,000 sf of space at the 537,000-sf Washington Harbour office compound. The deal marks the largest lease in the Washington, DC office market for 2004, so far.