MIAMI-The West Palm Beach, FL-based company paid Waterton Associates of Chicago $85,794 per unit for the 30-year, 252-unit, 98%-leased Boca East apartment complex just off fast-developing Downtown Boca Raton, 45 miles north of Downtown Miami.

ORANGE COUNTY, CA-The rate of unemployment here dipped 0.3% from January to February, according to a recently released study by the State of California Employment Development Department.

ORLANDO-W.D. Childers, twice president of the Florida Senate, is part of an ongoing Pensacola, FL grand jury investigation in north Florida's Escambia County where his name is surfacing on $6.2 million in land deals the county did with a developer friend.

HOUSTON-The buyers of the raw land are planning future retail, office or mixed-use development. The largest tract, 15 acres, is targeted for a retail center at the intersection of Spring Cypress Road and Texas 249.