WASHINGTON, DC-In its third-quarter market overview, commercial real estate firm CB Richard Ellis reports that the overall vacancy rate in the nation's capital fell to a low of 5.34%, bucking trends regionally and nationally of decline.

ST. PAUL-After looking elsewhere in the Twin Cities, the public radio network will buy a nearby building and connect it to its current headquarters creating a new 150,000-sf complex.

CYPRESS, CA-Aerospace giant's Continental Graphics unit takes 63,235 sf in the Warland Cypress Business Center. The design firm will use the space to consolidate its Culver City and San Diego operations under a single roof.

LONDON-Occupier demand for commercial property fell sharply in the third quarter of 2001, according to a new report from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.