COSTA MESA, CA-Two separate buyers acquire the properties here and in Santa Ana.

FORT WORTH-The 100-unit Spanish Gate Apartments and 72-unit Edgewood Oaks sell to an out-of-state partnership that upstages other bidders with a promise for a quick close and cash on the line. Seller John Baker of Arlington gets his money in one week.

SAN DIEGO-The San Diego County industrial market has been unable to shake the recent trend of negative net activity that has plagued the usually healthy sector during the first half of this year. A recently released report on the region says it experienced more than 1 million sf of overall negative net absorption in the second quarter of 2003.

SAN DIEGO-The Centre City Development Corp. hires 20-year industry veteran Garry Papers as the organization's new manager of architecture and planning. Papers is replacing former manager Walter Rask.