HOUSTON—Dallas-based Westmount Realty Capital LLC has acquired the 542-unit Braesridge Apartments, located in southwest Houston, and will rebrand the garden-style community as Westmount at Braesridge.

AUSTIN—Accesso Partners LLC has entered the Austin market in a huge way. The Hallandale Beach, FL-based company has acquired Riata Corporate Park, a class A 688,432-square-foot eight-building complex on a 51-acre campus in the Northwest submarket, from San Francisco-based Spear Street Capital.

GRAND PRAIRIE, TX--David Tuttle, with Keller Williams Commercial's Arlington office, has brokered the sale of a multi-tenant office property called Executive Business Centre.

AUSTIN--ARA, A Newmark Co. (ARA Newmark) has hired Patrick Short as managing director and part of the capital markets group in the Austin office.

HOUSTON--HREC Investment Advisors has arranged the sale of the 294-room Crowne Plaza Houston Northwest Brookhollow located in Houston. The buyer, Unique Hotel Management Group, is a regional hotel; the seller is a special servicer that acquired the hotel through foreclosure.

HOUSTON--Houston-based Mattress Firm Inc. will consolidate the company's two Houston offices into one corporate campus with more than 350 employees.

AUSTIN—With three Austin-area multifamily projects, Irving, TX-based JPI has expanded its presence in the area with a new local office and team leader.

DALLAS--The national apartment market recorded a monthly occupancy rate of 95.3 percent last month, along with annual effective rent growth of 5 percent--the fourth straight month the metric was at or above 5 percent, according to a new report from Dallas-based Axiometrics.