Office

LONDON-Greycoat subsidiary City Offices and the German fund CGI have let the 15,600-sf One Paternoster Square, London EC4 to Lexicon Partners at a rumoured pounds 50 ($85) per sf.

LONDON-Land Securities Trillium, the outsourcing subsidiary of Land Securities, has reached agreement with the Department for Work and Pensions to expand its existing property outsourcing agreement to include the 9 million-sf former Employment Service Estate.

HOUSTON-Transwestern Commercial Services wins the contracts for Westbridge One, a 103,835-sf, class A office building sold about three months ago. Three other brokerage houses were vying for the pacts to an 81%-leased structure on the west side of town.

MEMPHIS, TN-BGK Group of Santa Fe, NM acquires White Station Tower in East Memphis from Kaufman Realty Group of Atlanta. The anchor tenant of the multi-tenant property is I-bank, a Memphis-area financial institution that keeps its headquarters in the building.

DALLAS-The region gets a show of promise from an industrial market posting a quarterly gain for the first time in a year despite a year-to-date absorption that's still in the red. As for office, the best that can be said is it's "losing less blood today ... than before.

FRAMINGHAM, MA-Five tenants lease 21,964 sf of space in the Meadows at 161 Worcester Rd. on Route 9 in the the city's retail center. A broker involved says that the deals demonstrate that the MetroWest market is turning.