AUSTIN-Brokers differ on the city's state of affairs. And the subject is nearly as sensitive between friends as politics and religion. But the city's not alone in negative net absorption in Q1, says Boston-based Torto Wheaton research.

NEW YORK CITY-The war between CBDs and suburbs is fought in local skirmishes, with demands of native business and the locale's ability to support them drawing tenants in or pushing them away from our center cities. As a result, there is no clear-cut winner in the space race.

BOSTON-The Boston Marriott Copley Place, the second-largest hotel here, is rumored to be on the market with reports indicating that locally-based Westbrook Partners LLC is interested in acquiring the 1,147 room hotel.

DALLAS-A local investor has outdone at least seven others jockeying for 10,500 acres within a 30-minute drive of Dallas. It's highly unlikely that the property will remain a working cattle ranch for much longer.