CHICAGO-The local office of Transwestern has obtained a $69 million refinance loan for five office properties totaling more than one million square feet. Debt has returned, says HFF.

TORONTO-Mark Rose, Avison Young chairman and CEO, tells GlobeSt.com that there are plenty of positive fundamentals, but low jobs and other factors keep decision makers jittery.

OMAHA, NE-The 112,200-square-foot office is the largest office transaction in the past year in Omaha.

CHICAGO-True Partners Consulting has leased 31,594 square feet at 225 W. Wacker in the downtown, which is running out of large blocks of space.

CHICAGO-Going into 2011, tenants will have better luck negotiating with lease issues, as landlords try to stabilize properties in the face of returning consumer confidence, says Jones Lang LaSalle.

WYOMING, MI-The West Bloomfield, MI-based retail developer will buy the former General Motors Stamping Plant for an industrial development, in part because of a lack of retail projects.

CHICAGO-The company has purchased 840 S. Canal, a 443,446-square-foot building, for $33 million to change into a large data center.

TORONTO-Fairholme Funds is giving up its entire common share holding in GGP, but now becomes a 4.5% equity investor in Brookfield Asset Management Inc.