HOUSTON-Walden's four properties attracted at least 20 offers, of which seven wanted the entire lot. American Realty Advisors, formerly the Fidinam Group, won the race for a package marketed at a combined price of nearly $54 million.

PALO ALTO, CA-Essex Apartment Value Fund acquires three properties totaling 288 units in San Dimas, CA for $36.7 million and a 400-unit property in Huntington Beach, CA for $58.2 million.

VANCOUVER, WA-Consolidated Freightways, in Ch. 11 bankruptcy, is in the process of selling 220 properties with an appraised value of more than $400 million. To date, 68 CF properties throughout the United States have been sold for $176 million.

SEATTLE-"TOPOFF 2," a congressionally-mandated exercise to test local, regional, state and federal responses to terrorism, has local state and federal officials responding to a simulated radiological dispersal device in south Seattle this week.