OAKLAND, CA-BT Commercial Real Estate's just-released third quarter report for East Bay industrial properties put third quarter rent increases at a strong 5%. Hot spots include Berkeley, Emeryville and Fremont.

CRANFORD, NJ-Results, announced via teleconference, are better than expected for most observers and could improve over the next year as the REIT refocuses on its core market.

ORLANDO-Hewitt Associates needs the space for its newly-formed online unit, Sageo. This unit's 110 employees, along with Hewitt's core 650 workers, are housed at the one-year-old, 360,000-sf service center at Central Florida Research Park.

EVERETT, WA-The former seat of county government may be demolished and replaced with a new 12-story office building because it would cost more than $7 million to earthquake-proof the structure.