LAKE OSWEGO, OR-Seeing little new supply in the pipeline to soften demand, the Palo Alto, CA-based REIT acquires the Hunt Club Apartments here in Oregon's "golden zip code" for a contract price of $17.5 million.

NEW JERSEY-The global commercial real estate services firm has negotiated new lease deals in Morristown, Cranbury, Westfield and Paramus for clients in four separate contracts, demonstrating the market here is still hot.

ORLANDO-The nation's 11th largest issuer plans to occupy Banco Popular's 5,000-sf offices near International Drive when the bank's lease expires early next year and probably will be searching for additional space to house 200 new hires. Metris is creating a national Hispanic operations center here.

MALIBU, CA-Malibu voters get right to vote on development within city limits. Confused voters chose measure initiated by the city council, but backed by area's biggest developer.