BOSTON, MA-A new study by Trammell Crow shows the average deal size of the top 15 investment sales in the first half of 2000 was $115 million.

AUSTIN-The city's retail market gets another "for sale" sign - this time a 13,310-sf specialty market just eight blocks from the main campus of the University of Texas. The brisk shopping center market lends to the prevailing "sell" mindset to dispose of older properties while others line up for new construction to satisfy the thriving marketplace.

FORT LAUDERDALE-Zenith Realty Investments pays William Mencarelli $4 million or $71.17 psf for two vacant, one-story showroom/warehouse structures totaling 56,200 sf at prime site near Powerline Road, Interstate 95 and the Florida Turnpike.

AUSTIN-The Chippery is taking 50,000 sf of a 104,600-sf office/industrial building under construction by Trammell Crow Co. The lease marks the first tenant for the spec project, tentatively slated for a December completion