Office

AUSTIN-The Scheffe Group is actively looking at two sites in Bee Cave and one in Austin's northwest submarket. The next project will have a bigger footprint than the 25,000-sf Juniper Ridge.

PHOENIX-Brookwood Financial Partners closes on its first Phoenix deal this year, a 181,629-sf office building. The owner of three other Arizona properties plans to spend up to $100 million in the next 18 months in the state.

ORLANDO-In Central Florida's biggest office deal of the year, Inland Real Estate Acquisitions Inc. of Oak Brook, IL paid an estimated $88 million for 440,000 sf of class A space in three of the four existing office buildings at the 109-acre Celebration Place Office Park in Celebration, FL, 20 miles south of Downtown Orlando.

WESLEY CHAPEL, FL-The Pasco County Commission has just given the go ahead for the proposed Cypress Creek development, a multi-faceted project that would bring a hotel, office space, retail space and residential units to the largely undeveloped area.

WOODLAND HILLS, CA-The insurance company takes 30,000 sf of space in a Warner Center office park owned by the REIT. The move will combine and expand two existing claims offices in Woodland Hills and Ventura.

LONDON-New research from Catella shows prime West End rents have fallen 12% in six months. And the agent reports that the City market is off 8% over the same period.