CHICAGO-Better commission splits and signing bonuses may lure top brokers from one office to another, but a "wholesale migration" of brokers has not been seen so far. Money sometimes isn't everything, local experts add.

PORTLAND-The PDC plans to pay $800,000 for the property at the corner Northeast 99th and Pacific Street and then recruit a private developer to build on the property in order to encourage construction on other parcels within the Gateway business district.

DENVER-The southeast corridor is the city's hardest hit submarket, with a 9.24% vacancy rate. Add in sublease space and soon-to-be-vacated spots and it will hit 12.3%. But, say brokers, it won't be a return to the mid-1980s.

AUSTIN-Janus Capital Corp. has effectively shut down its two-year-old call center in northwest Austin. The Staubach Co. is searching for tenants to fill an estimated 274,000 sf of remaining sublease space. Inovant is filling 45,000 sf and two deals for 40,000 sf are in the pipeline.