CLEVELAND-Chicago-based Sheldon Good & Co. swings the gavel next month on eight former DIY Home Improvement stores and other commercial property in the Buckeye State. Included is a 108,000-sf store on Brookpark Road here.

SAN DIEGO-A firm that helps fledgling biotech companies get off to a good start has renewed its lease for space in Shidler Group's Courtyard I project.

CAMBRIDGE, MA-Ascential Software Corp. of Westborough, MA buys Torrent Systems, Inc. of Cambridge, MA for $46 million. The firm will close its Cambridge facility early next year and combine both workforces at the Westborough Office.

LAS VEGAS-The tiny North submarket, with just 220,900 sf of available space, posts a 25.8% vacancy rate in Grubb & Ellis' third-quarter Market Snapshot. Meanwhile, the largest submarket, Central East, checks in at 8.7%.