FORT WORTH-Keller Properties takes the deed to the Courtyards on Calmont, using 1031 Exchange money and a $682,000 loan. The 88%-occupied complex was on the market for six months before it traded.

HOMEWOOD, IL-Leona's has snatched up the site of Surma's, a venerable eatery in this south suburban town, in an continuing effort to expand its presence in the Chicagoland area.

ATLANTA-In its first formal reply to ex-chairman John A. Williams' ongoing fight to regain control of the company, the apartment REIT says that if Williams succeeds, the firm will have problems recruiting top management personnel in the future.

CHICAGO-Jones Lang LaSalle wins the assignment to market two acres at the southwest corner of Madison and Des Plaines streets, which could be developed as a 900,000-sf office tower under current zoning.