BALTIMORE COUNTY-Three apartment communities find three different new owners in a recent deal totaling $66.3 million. The Town and Country Trust's decision to sell the properties is reflective of the company's plans to infuse its portfolio with newer communities.

VAIL, CO-Growing company sees the need to decentralize its sales and marketing division. Much of the firm's growth is taking place outside the state.

PHILADELPHIA-The hitch is: PIDC's plan for the vacant, nearly 100-year-old mental institution that has become a popular Halloween haunt, must be community approved by mid-January or the state gets it back. Cleanup and building demolition will cost $15 million.

LIVINGSTON, NJ-Gebroe-Hammer Associates arranged the transactions, which encompass three apartment properties totaling seven buildings in three cities.