WASHINGTON, DC-Affordable housing industry mover and shaker G. Allan Kingston gets bumped to the top of the National Housing Conference's leadership line, as the advocacy group gives him the chairmanship.

DENTON, TX-Provident Realty Advisors is adding another 264 units of affordable housing to Denton, where a 93.3% occupancy in a multifamily sector is just one more reason for the development push by rooftops and retailers.

SAN DIEGO-DSB Properties snaps up the 464,000-sf retail property from Cousins Properties Inc. Completed in 2000, the asset was 100% occupied at the time of sale by tenants such as Barnes & Noble and Albertsons.

ATLANTA-CB Richard Ellis orchestrated a transaction that allowed the Stamford, CT lender to buy out a 10-year lease from E*Trade, and provided Holder Properties with a blue-ribbon tenant in a three-year-old structure that has been sitting vacant for two years.