SKOKIE, IL-Chicago-based CMD Realty Investors, with a 10-million-sf office and industrial portfolio across the US, comes back into the local market with its purchase of the warehouse and manufacturing building at 7300 N. Linder Ave.

TAMPA, FL-The Arlington, VA-based firm acquires the 95-room Hilton Garden Inn Ybor City from Impact Properties of here for $12.25 million, or $128.94 per room, the highest per-room price paid for a hotel in the local market since 1996, according to Dennis Reed, vice president at The Plasencia Group Inc. who brokered the sale.

BRADENTON, FL-Duke Realty Corp. of Indianapolis is scheduled to break ground later this month on the 12-acre, $18 million build-to-suit project within Town Center at Lakewood Ranch in Manatee County, about 80 miles northwest of Downtown Orlando.

TAMPA, FL-Despite rising vacancies and lowered rents, buyers are chasing fewer properties this year in the Tampa Bay multifamily market, with some of the same properties being sold two and three times in a short period for a quick profit, according to a new industry analysis by Marcus & Millichap.