DALLAS—Oak Brook, IL-based InvenTrust Properties Corp. has named Alan Grayson as a director of leasing in the company's Dallas office. Grayson will oversee all retail leasing activities and assists in market expansion efforts for the North Texas and Western regions of the company's national portfolio.

HOUSTON—Miami-based Monument Real Estate Services (MRES) has been retained to manage the 1,039-unit Vista Verde apartment community in South Houston..

AUSTIN—Denver-based Griffis Residential has acquired Talavera Apartments, a 232-unit class A multifamily community in the northwest submarket.

DALLAS—Los Angeles-based Mesa West Capital has funded two separate five-year, non-recourse loans totaling $104.3 million for the acquisition of an 812,000-square-foot office campus and a 228-unit apartment home community in Dallas.

ALLEN, TX--TIG Real Estate Services Inc. has announced plans to build Ridgeview Business Center, a $31-million, 154,000-square-foot, six-story office building set on eight acres optioned by Allen Economic Development Corporation (AEDC) along the Sam Rayburn Tollway between Stacy Road and North Watters Road.

SAN ANTONIO, TX—While the San Antonio market may not get the same attention as Texas' major markets, Tim Ballard, co-founder and president of Buchanan Street Partners, believes in the South Texas city.

SAN ANTONIO--Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Tacara at Westover Hills, a 312-unit apartment community in San Antonio, IPA exclusively tells GlobeSt.com. The terms of the sale were not released.

HOUSTON—Transwestern will lead leasing efforts for 15000 Northwest Freeway, a 34,776-square-foot office building located in the Northwest Far submarket near the intersection of Beltway 8 and U.S. 290.