SAO PAULO, BRAZIL-The duo creates a new $100-million fund that will be matched with the same amount of debt and invested in the country's office, industrial and residential markets over the next several years. The fund already has landed one office building and two industrial build-to-suit deals, and is planning at least one speculative development.

ANDOVER, MA-A medical equipment supplier will move its offices from Danvers under a long-term lease deal that gives the German-based firm its own building. Draeger Medical Systems will move into 128,400 sf at 6 Tech Drive in the Andover Tech Center next April.

SAN DIEGO-The Washington, DC-based REIT acquires Chancellor Park from Texas-based Crescent Real Estate Equities Co. The property counts two, four-story buildings of class A office campus space.

PORTLAND-An evaluation committee recommends the City Council select the locally based company as the preferred developer for the nine-figure development across from the Oregon Convention Center. The final size, design and financing for the project are still up in the air.