MIAMI-The Miami-Dade County Aviation Department is looking for willing sellers in roughly a 20-acre industrial-warehouse section along the southwestern edge of Miami International Airport. The county will be paying top dollar for the dirt--about $50 per sf or an average $2.5 million per acre.

ATLANTA-Paradyne, a Fairlawn, NJ-based broadband hardware maker, is contracting with locally based Advantis Real Estate Services Co. to find office tenants for its Building H in Spectrum Technology Park, Largo, FL, a Tampa suburb 80 miles west of Downtown Orlando. The negotiated fee was not disclosed.

ORLANDO-The area ranks seventh in the nation on building permits pulled for multifamily and single-family dwellings, down from second place two years ago, a new University of Central Florida study shows.

HOUSTON-Hall Financial Group has sold the last of its Houston multifamily assets in an ongoing disposition of 16 older properties. The Forestree Apartments in the southeastern Houston suburb of Webster has been sold to a limited partnership.