PORTLAND-Local developers Homer Williams and Gordon Sondland add John Carroll to their joint venture, decide to delay the hotel because of the current market and begin gearing up to develop the condominiums, which will now be built in one taller tower instead of two shorter ones.

PORTLAND-Despite Oregon's slight reduction in unemployment rate last month, the March payroll employment figures show Oregon has been slow in seeing signs of an economic rebound, says the latest monthly report from the Oregon Employment Department.

CENTREVILLE, VA-Real estate company Long & Foster breaks ground on a new 33,000-sf home to house its Centreville office employees.

AURORA, CO-Colorado University real estate students increased the value of the land from about $50,000 an acre to about $150,000 per acre, helping produce a $7.6-million purchase price for the 57-acre site.