CHARLOTTE-Flex product (office and warehouse combination) is suffering the most at a 22.9% vacancy level, followed by warehouse/distribution, 7.5% and manufacturing, 4.8%, according to a new study of the area's 110.7 million-sf inventory by CB Richard Ellis Inc.

MIAMI-New South Federal Savings Bank, an affiliate of Birmingham, AL-based Collateral Mortgage Capital is loaning a total $6.22 million on three manufactured home communities in Miami, Lake Alfred, FL and Auburndale, FL.

EUSTIS, FL-The Downtown two story, 12,718-sf former Ferran's Department Store on Magnolia Avenue is expected to sell for a conservative replacement cost of about $50 per sf or $635,900, independent construction industry estimators tell GlobeSt.com.

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL-The city commission has approved the final site plan for the five-building, 25-story, 4.2-acre oceanfront redevelopment venture which will comprise 346 hotel rooms, 171 timeshare units, 33,015 sf of retail and 25,000 sf of banquet/meeting space.

TAMPA, FL-The 5.62 million-sf central business district submarket saw 394,551 sf go dark in fourth quarter 2001, bringing total net absorption to a negative 128,852 sf, the poorest performance of the last six years.

TAMPA, FL-Brad Luger, the firm's executive director, investment services group, has closed $6 million in transactions since January of this year. He has been with Advantis since the Atlanta-based brokerage opened the Tampa office April 13, 1999.

BIRMINGHAM, AL-The multifamily, office and retail REIT is paying first-quarter dividends to holders of record on March 15 on two series of preferred shares on March 29. The Alabama-based company owns 108 multifamily, office and retail properties in the Southeast and Texas.

TAMPA, FL-The Beachwood, OH investor/developer paid Focus Group of Boca Raton, FL $68,088 per unit for the 340-unit, 90%-leased, two-year-old apartment complex in affluent suburban Citrus Park. Downtown Tampa is 80 miles west of Orlando.