FRAMINGHAM, MA-The office supplies retailer also establishes two major facilities in the country.

NEW YORK CITY-The Joint-Industry Taskforce may have won a significant battle in the war of the listing service groups. Douglas Elliman, which had partnered with the Corcoran Group to create a New York multiple listing service, is said to be abandoning that effort to join the opposition.

SAN DIEGO-A local firm, which is trying to develop a major resort project in Baja California, is a launching senior-care facilities division. The first community opens this week in Youngstown, AZ

SEATTLE-The ultra-tight office market here, which is holding steady at a rock bottom 1.1% vacancy rate through the first nine months of the year, has sent lease rates in some new class A office buildings soaring past the $50 per sf full-service benchmark, according to a third quarter report by Grubb & Ellis.