SEATTLE, WA-Allen's acquisition machine in running at full speed in the South Lake Union area of downtown. With more than 40 acres here already in his portfolio, a purchase of surplus city property will add another five.

SEATTLE, WA-Through its merger with Spieker Properties, Equity Office Properties will acquire more than four million sf of existing office and industrial properties in the Seattle market, plus a proposed 550,000-sf office project in Bellevue.

HOUSTON-Weingarten is riding the crest of another successful year, with across-the-board increases coming in for a year-end tally. The annual FFO is $4.42, up 49 cents from the prior year

CEDAR FALLS, IA-Two loans on apartment complexes here closed recently for $2.925 million. The projects refinanced by low-income housing tax credit loans through Bethesda, MD-based AMI Capital, Inc.