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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will expand operations at energy Plaza in Dallas. It is close to signing a five-year, 125,000-square-foot office lease at 1601 Bryan St., according to published reports. FDIC's Division of Resolution and Receivership...

International infrastructure planning and design firm Halcrow Inc. plans to move to Oakland City Center in December.

Integrity Bank's skyrocket run as the fastest-growing bank in Georgia history, fueled by housing construction, has ended in failure. (RF)

Nearly a month after United Title of Texas Inc. was forced to shut down its 27 offices around the state, the former title group’s Colorado parent company has filed for bankruptcy.

Merritt Properties LLC recently signed two tenants to its Ashburn properties.

Capmark Finance Inc. named Ashley Harkness senior vice president of its Dallas mortgage banking office. Harkness will handle originating commercial real estate loans under Executive vice president William Ross. Harkness was vice president of JPMorgan...

Grubb & Ellis Healthcare REIT Inc. purchased five medical office properties in Texas and Missouri from The Cirrus Group, for $44.8 million, or about $260 per square foot. The 171,973-square-foot portfolio consists of 5551 Winghaven Blvd. in O'Fallon...

Miami-based REIT Equity One sold a three-property retail portfolio in Carrollton, TX, to private investors for $2.75 million or $54 per square foot. The properties are part of the Rosemeade Park shopping center and were 77% occupied at the time of sale...

Colonial Properties Trust, a Birmingham, AL-based REIT, sold a four-property multifamily portfolio in Texas, to private investors for $40.8 million, or about $51,000 per unit. The 800-unit portfolio consists of four properties, totaling 582,170 square...

Rolando Leal and Michael Trenary have joined Fronteras Commercial Real Estate, Dallas/Fort Worth's first commercial real estate firm to specialize in the Latino retail market, as vice president and associate. Fronteras brought Leal and Trenary on board...