PHOENIX-Investors in search of higher returns are pressuring Phoenix's "for sale" list for long-term leased properties. If the leases fall short of the profile, the asset easily can linger on the market for six months or more.

AUSTIN-The 800-room convention center hotel's marketing staff is finding strong demand by corporate interests to select Austin as a meeting destination.

CYPRESS, CA-Given its location, the buyer's broker says the $126,761-per-unit purchase price was $10,000 to $15,000 below what the complex might have sold for because it was not aggressively marketed.

ATLANTA-OneGeorgia Authority grants that channel funds from the state's tobacco settlement into economic development lured a furniture company into 278,000 sf of vacant distribution space in Thomas County and a tech firm to occupy 26,000 sf in Sumter County.