IRVING, TX-Genpass Technologies inks a long-term lease on a 15,000-sf building. Executive offices, customer support team and technology and operations center will move there to the new location by the middle of 2002.

SAN MARCOS, TX-Optical fiber equipment from Marconi PLC brings broadband to users in the Austin-San Antonio corridor as Grande Communications Inc. builds out telecom network for business and residences.

ROXBURY, NJ-The virgin property, which is part of a diverse offering handled by auctioneer Sheldon Good & Co., commands a minimum bid of $1.25 million and was originally priced at $5.5 million.

LONDON-The RICS has slammed a proposal by the Greater London Authority that half the capital's housing should be 'affordable'. It says that London's poor are the responsibility of the GLA, not developers.