RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, CA-The Goodwin & Danzig Family Trusts acquire 45,872-sf portion of Santa Margarita Marketplace, the latest in a string of retail-property transactions over the past few weeks.

DALLAS-Ross Perot Jr., Tom Hicks and the City of Dallas had a vision that now has equity backing. Come 2002, Palladium will be scouring the capital markets to finance a 20-acre, $600-million first phase to the 60-acre Intown Dallas dream. It's all thanks to a joint venture equity conduit.

FT. WORTH-Area wheeling and dealing puts four new tenants into 14,863 sf of retail and office space in Ft. Worth, Irving, Arlington and AllianceTexas in northeast Tarrant County. Opening Nov. 1 will be a "mom and pop" store at Ft. Worth's Houston Street Mall.

WASHINGTON, DC-A recent survey, conducted by CBIZ Valuation Counselors and the National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing & Care Industries, projects that a record $10.8 billion of financing may be provided to the sector in 2001. The previous record of actual financing was $9.4 billion in 1998.