HOUSTON-Three Riverway and the Cabot Oil & Gas Building have new owners in deals that may be signaling a year-end flurry in the office tower market. Three Riverway fetches a reported $130 per sf and the Cabot Building, $160 per sf.

ELGIN, IL - Building is the latest office/warehouse space in a hot market for that kind of property.

CHARLOTTE-The 25-acre project along five blocks of abandoned land on the city's blighted West Trade and Fifth Streets in the Third Ward will encompass 1.1 million sf of office for the bank's technology center; 75,000 sf of retail; and 600,000 sf of multifamily.

SEATTLE-"The preleasing we've been seeing is previously unheard of in the Northwest marketplace," says Rob Aigner, executive managing director for Colliers International in Seattle. "Certain industries are saying 'we've got to be there'. It's sort of a herding instinct.