Globest Sectors

AUSTIN-A New York investor steps up to buy a 9,214-sf building along Camp Craft Road. The buyer gets a tenant signed to a five-year lease. ASC Management was seeking $1.7 million for the one-year-old structure.

MARINA DEL REY, CA-For the highest price ever paid for an apartment community in Los Angeles County, SSR Realty Advisors and one of its clients pick up a 583-unit complex in Marina Del Rey. Apartments here average 854 square feet with an average rent of $1,671 per month.

HOUSTON-The Houston law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue will move into 54,600 sf on the top two floors of the 689,000-sf CBD high-rise. The signing pushes the project to 56% pre-leased.

DALLAS-Southwest Bindery signs the deal with EastGroup Properties as a result of "aggressive" negotiations that end in a 10-year contract. The inbound tenant exits 40,000 sf for the expansion move and state-of-the-art equipment.

SOUTHBOROUGH, MA-The Archon Group sells 120 Turnpike Rd to TA Realty Associates for $11.7 million or $148 per sf. The building is fully leased with good credit tenants.

AUSTIN-In all, 11,776 sf is spoken for in a submarket with a 17.5% vacancy. Celite Systems, which already occupies 11,156 sf, took another 3,476 sf from Sun Microsystems at Lakewood on the Park.

NEWARK-The developer, which is under contract to buy a choice 5.7-acre tract on the Passaic River, is apparently looking to put up a project dominated by market-priced residential units, and possibly a hotel.

GLENDALE, AZ-The 88-unit complex's ownership changes from a California deed holder to a local one. The upside potential will be realized through some cosmetic changes and hands-on local ownership and management, says the broker.