LOS ANGELES-As LA's apartment market continues to sizzle, the Inland Empire is starting to heat up. It is now one of the top 10 tightest multifamily markets in the nation.

COLUMBIA, MD-Corporate Office Properties Trust will discuss its earnings in the second quarter of this year up to the market close on Wednesday, July 25 in an upcoming conference call to be held on the following day.

LONDON-Shopping centre investor Tops Estates turned in a disappointing set of figures for the year to 31 March 2001. Chairman Everard Goodman blamed the City's failure to understand the property sector.

OCHOPEE, FL-The National Park Service is about to prepare land-and-mineral management plans for 147,000 acres added in 1996 to the Big Cypress National Preserve. Ochopee is 69 miles west of Miami.