DALLAS-The Plasencia Group comes out with a national branding, Sun Hospitality, for regional offices with seasoned brokers to sell mid-market and limited-service hotels. Texas gets the first listings and leads the nationwide play.

ORLANDO-Declining construction, lower vacancies and higher rents will make the metro area market more attractive to investors over the next 12 months, says Steven M. Ekovich, first vice president and regional manager of the Encino, CA-based firm's Orlando and Tampa offices.

TAMPA, FL-The Miami-based brokers rang up their seventh over-$20-million retail deal in the past 12 months with the $20.3-million sale of the Shoppes of Carrollwood and Colonial Square, both in the affluent Carrollwood section of metro Tampa.

TAMPA, FL-St. Paul Properties pays State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio $58.24 per sf for a total 370,886 sf of office/flex space in six buildings in Tampa and neighboring St. Petersburg, FL.