IRVINE, CA-Orange County ranks fourth in the nation in terms of how sellers fare in selling industrial buildings, according to a new study of major market transactions that closed this year.

NEW YORK CITY-Attorneys for Larry Silverstein yesterday afternoon filed the developer's hotly anticipated counterclaim to the lawsuit filed against him by reinsurer Swiss Re.

NEW YORK CITY-Governor George Pataki and lame-duck Mayor Rudy Giuliani announce a powerful corporation that will oversee the funding and development of Lower Manhattan. The plan is already taking hits from city and state officials who are labeling it as a partisan hedge against the possibility of a Democrat moving into Gracie Mansion and taking the reins of redevelopment into his own hands.

PLYMOUTH, MA-The Conservation Law Foundation files a petition with the state's environmental affairs office in an attempt to halt A.D. Makepeace from selling off a chunk of beachfront land. The parcel is part of an 1,800-acre site the Wareham, MA-based cranberry developer is looking to develop.