ORANGE COUNTY, CA-Long-term forecast by Delta Associates predicts that local vacancy factor will drop to 10.4% in mid-2003 from 10.9% today. Shorter term, vacancies could rise as the economy slows.

HYDE PARK, NY-Wilder Balter Partners, an Elmsford-based residential development firm, has completed its $9.5 million Heritage Pointe senior affordable housing community here. A host of dignitaries were on hand for a ceremonial ribbon cutting at the property.

DALLAS-Second quarter leasing activity had offered a glimmer of hope that the worst had passed, but another slump is hanging over the Dallas region, says a Cushman & Wakefield of Texas senior director. It's not marketwide and it's not all gloom and doom.