DALLAS-The DFW region wrestles with the highest amount of sublease space in the nation, nearly eight million sf at Q3's close, says Grubb & Ellis. Add in the 39.2 million sf that's currently vacant and 8.3 million sf under construction and the mercury's dangerously high.

SEATTLE, WA-"There's been a fair amount of conversation that the investment side (of retail real estate) is going to turn down, but we haven't seen it," says Paul Sleeth, a broker with Colliers International.

LONDON-Pan-European investor CLS Holdings has bounced back from the departure of its chief executive Glyn Hirsch to buy a site on London's South Bank. The deal is CLS's first in the UK for three years.

PHOENIX-DFD Architecture and Cornoyer-Hedrick welcome a new era with today's nuptials. The teaming creates one the state's largest firms and one that plans to vie for practically every high-profile project in the Southwest.