DALLAS-The Dallas-Ft. Worth region is leading the nation in job growth and another 80,000 positions are to come on line this year, says Holliday Fenoglio Fowler's research director. The office market might be in a temporary slump, but multifamily is not.

ORLANDO-The Legislature ran out of time and didn't consider the Charlotte-based company's request to legalize merchant power plants in Florida, a move vigorously opposed by market share leaders Florida Power Corp., Florida Power & Light Co. and Tampa Electric Co.

MIAMI-The locally based investment banking and real estate business firm and a majority shareholder close the sale of its securities broker-dealer operations in a cash-stock deal valued at an estimated $75 million.

GEORGETOWN, TX-Larry Peel is planning the final stage to Water's Edge, a 70-unit project that will deliver in spring 2002. And, he says, an upscale 50-unit condo project is in the works for a nearby parcel that he's negotiating to buy.