ANN ARBOR, MI-Southeast Michigan's westward migration toward the University of Michigan, which has helped fuel an active office market, prompts the New York-based commercial brokerage company to set up shop here.

BERKELEY, CA-Already in prison for bringing young Indian females into the country for forced prostitution and cheap labor, a major Berkeley apartment owner stands to lose some $70 million in assets if he loses a class action lawsuit filed by nine of the women.

DENVER-Developers Peter Culshaw and David Friedman are happy to get $13.5 million from the Rreef Fund for the 86,000-sf Third Maroon Circle office building in Douglas County they developed less than two years ago.

LONDON-Hammerson has agreed lettings totalling 127,000 sf to international occupiers at its two newly completed office developments in central Paris.