MESQUITE, TX-High-rollers have zeroed in on the Dallas-Ft. Worth market, where class A multifamily sales reap nearly $38 million in two unrelated sales. A Grubb & Ellis team snagged the coup with two of Mesquite's four new complexes.

WEST PALM BEACH, FL-Prakas Group is awarded exclusive agreement to represent the fast-growing restaurant chain in the sale of the New York-style bar and grill on Clematis Street in this Palm Beach County city, 67 miles north of Miami. The asking price wasn't disclosed.

TAMPA, FL-The privately held Rahway, NJ-based developer/investor picked up two office properties totaling 160,000 sf from its $186.3 million acquisition in May of the 2.7 million-sf Banyan Strategic Realty Trust (Chicago) asset package. Tampa is 80 miles west of Downtown Orlando.

MINNEAPOLIS-A backlog of 648 residential units is up from a year ago and new orders are down a bit for the home builder that concentrates on this market as well as Tampa, FL and Des Moines, IA.