MCLEAN, VA-Reilly Mortgage Group closed a dozen loans using the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae programs to finance garden and high-rise apartment complexes from New York City to Seattle, WA.

SACRAMENTO, CA-The discount division of clothier Nordstrom Inc. has leased 32,000 sf in the Creekside Town Center shopping mall under construction at Highway 65 and Galleria Boulevard, across the street from the Galleria Mall.

CARLSTADT, NJ-He can't legally block it, but New Jersey acting governor's active opposition to the proposed Mills mixed-use project in the Meadowlands casts doubt on whether and where it will get done. He discussed the topic on a radio call-in show last night.

NEW YORK CITY-PricewaterhouseCoopers expects room demand to increase only 1.9% for the year and average daily rates to move up 3.8%, the worst performance since 1993. Prospects look better for 2002.