MUSCAT, OMAN-A small public company traded on the Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board is acquiring a small private company that last week signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the government of the Sultanate of Oman for construction of a major tourism and residential development.

SAN RAMON CA-The San Leandro-based life sciences software services firm is relocating its headquarters to San Ramon, where it has leased a chunk of the Bishop Ranch 6 complex for 10 years. Local sources estimate the deal value at between $15 million and $16 million.

SAN RAMON CA-The San Leandro-based life sciences software services firm is relocating its headquarters to San Ramon, where it has leased a chunk of the Bishop Ranch 6 complex for 10 years. Local sources estimate the deal value at between $15 million and $16 million.

SEATTLE-The 309,400-sf, class A Downtown office building is 90% leased, but the building was completed in 2000, which means some leases will be rolling over during the next 18 months.

PORTLAND, OR-The title insurance and real estate transaction services company leases the 17,000-sf fifth floor in the office tower on Block II of the Brewery Blocks, a 1.7-million-sf five-block development on the northwest edge of Downtown. The 167,000 sf of office space on Block II was delivered in 2002 and is now about 75% leased.

ST. PETERSBURG, FL-Marathon Asset Management, Robert Martin Co. and Prospect Capital Group put up $111 million to acquire the Coquina Key Arms with plans to flip the units as condominiums.

ST. PETERSBURG, FL-Marathon Asset Management, Robert Martin Co. and Prospect Capital Group put up $111 million to acquire the Coquina Key Arms with plans to flip the units as condominiums.

NOVATO, CA-The locally headquartered insurer exercises its option to acquire the 64-acre 700,000-sf complex here from Menlo Park-based Spieker Partners and flips it to publicly held American Financial Realty Trust of Jenkintown, PA in trade for a long-term lease agreement.