HOUSTON-Four real estate investors and nine furniture retailers scoop up 13 Heilig-Meyers locations. Principal Life Insurance of Des Moines ordered the disposition after taking the sites in exchange for a corporate debt.

LONDON-The North London football club Arsenal has been given the go-ahead by the government for its controversial plan to build a new 60,000-seat stadium at Ashburton Grove in Islington, north London.

ORLANDO-In the past two years, the Bentonsville, AR-based retailer has been rejected in Clermont, FL and in the Sanford, FL vicinity of Seminole County. Wal-Mart is going cash register to cash register with Minneapolis-based Target Stores Inc. in several area communities, but is still the market share leader among big-boxers.

LOUISVILLE, KY-The 215,426-sf multifamily rental building at 430 W. Muhammad Ali Blvd., which also includes 22 commercial spaces, requires $565,933 in repairs even though the property underwent rehab in 1999. Occupancy is 83%.