DALLAS-Arledge/Power Real Estate Group and Perkins & Will have picked up two leading executives from their competitors. Arledge/Power gets an Ernst & Young manager and the architectural firm snags a VP from HKS Inc. in Dallas.

LOS ANGELES-The 118,762-sf facility is the third office property to be sold in the county in the past week. Together, the three transactions total more than $55 million in sales activity.

WASHINGTON, DC-A new survey shows that office markets have responded more quickly than expected to the country's economic woes. Overall office vacancies rose over the last six months, with high-tech areas taking brutal hits and occupancy rates expected to decline through year-end.

TAVARES, FL-Residents and a local newspaper argued the estimated $50 million, 489-acre, 323-unit single-family and multifamily Heathrow Country Estates project shouldn't be allowed to reapply for a development permit after Lake County commissioners rejected the proposal in July 2000 on a 3-2 vote. The proposed project is 24 miles northwest of Downtown Orlando.