HOUSTON-Kimberley Partners leverages the financing with the Paragon Engineering complex at 10777 Clay Rd. in the Energy Corridor. Just recently, Paragon signed a 10-year lease for a second building.

ORLANDO-Robert I. Earl, the $600,000-a-year chairman of the 11-year-old, locally based, celebrity-themed restaurant chain, denies any wrongdoing and suggests any investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission will clear the company as well.

ATLANTA-As the airline files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the Raleigh, NC-based REIT awaits the court's ruling on seven leases that represent annual realized rental revenue of $6.9 million.

LEXINGTON, MA-NRT Inc., a subsidiary of NY-based Cendant Corp., purchases The DeWolfe Cos. Inc. for $149 million. DeWolfe will be merged with Coldwell Banker Hunneman, one of NRT's subsidiaries, to create the largest real estate and home services organization in the New England region.