SAN DIEGO-Sales of apartment projects were brisk through September as average monthly rents eclipsed the $1,000 mark countywide. Apartment sales through the first nine months of the 2001 were up 9% from a year ago, mostly due to a strong first half of the year, according to Burnham Real Estate Services.

LOS ANGELES-Still thirsty for US properties, the domestic arm of Australia's Westfield Holdings Ltd. acquires 9.7 million sf of retail in six states from Cleveland-based Jacobs Group. The largest property involved is a 1.35-million-sf mall near Cleveland, OH.

FT. WORTH-Twenty-four buildings in Ft. Worth's CBD are left dangling as its high-tech provider seeks a buyer. CoServ, which filed Chapter 11s for six telephone and cable divisions, was to start with the under-construction 200,000-sf Bank One Building.

RANDOLPH, NJ-The 7.5-acre Randolph Village Center, owned by a partnership group, features a 40,000-sf Acme supermarket, currently under construction with a spring opening slated.