Multi-family Housing

KAILUA-KONA, HI-Several months ahead of schedule, the company completes the final phase of Lokahi Apartments, a new 306-unit, affordable rental community here.

OXNARD, CA-The Beverly Hills-based company, RECP/Urban Partners and Capri Capital Partners acquire the Serenade apartment complex for $81.5 million.

SAN CLEMENTE, CA-Locally based Sunstone Investors was reported to be negotiating to acquire the 1,625-room Hyatt Manchester San Diego, but talks are off for now.

NEW YORK CITY-The investment management firm will help the National Association of Insurance Commissioners evaluate potential losses from insurers’ CMBS holdings.

ORLANDO-Harkins Commercial inked five medical office leases and two medical office sales worth $2.5 million in August--and has four upcoming transactions in this niche.

DALLAS-Randy Baird, a managing partner with investment firm Baird Fitzgerald Partners, has joined Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP as a senior managing director.

CHICAGO-Jones Lang LaSalle says the rest of the year will see industrial leasing pace slow down from the activity of the first half.

WASHINGTON, DC-This is the fourth structured sale Greenberg Traurig has handled, for a total of $3 billion.

NEWARK-The firm has been tapped to market the near-7,000-square-foot office building here.

LAS VEGAS-The Irvine, CA-based company hires Scott Monroe as senior vice president to lead the company’s growth in this market.

SAN DIEGO-Experts have announced purchase of three life sciences properties in San Diego by Pasadena-based Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc.

MIAMI-Brightstar Corp., the Miami-based mobile device distribution specialist, has shifted its Latin American/Caribbean distribution center from a 45,000-square-foot building into a larger facility that measures 65,000 square feet.

NEW YORK CITY-The civic groups and Community Boards are in the urge of revising the policies of restricting national retailers.

NEW YORK CITY-A media company, Omnicom Group Inc. is in talks with a retirement system to lease a larger space in East Side office tower.

CORAL SPRINGS, FL-Despite 31% occupancy, Design Row, a strip center targeting furniture retailers, sold for $7.25 million.