PORTLAND-Property owners, under the threat of criminal liability, must now provide purchasers with information and records of construction projects on the property for the two years immediately preceding the sale of the property.

PORTLAND-Two weeks after GlobeSt.com breaks news that Good Guys is trying to get out from under nine of its leases in Oregon and Washington, the consumer electronics retailer announces it will close five of its 14 stores in the two states.

SAN FRANCISCO-Bob Gilley, who with partner and executive director Jeff Congdon dominated the Northern California office market for Cushman & Wakefield over the past few years, will head Insignia/ESG's new Bay Area investment sales and financing division.

PORTLAND-Four years after leaving Grubb & Ellis to kick-start a Portland retail division for Trammell Crow Co., local broker Ron Dowhaniuk has left Trammell to do the same for The Staubach Co.

PORTLAND-"We expect that we will turn the corner on this recession by the third quarter of 2002," says Bradford H. Fletcher, Grubb & Ellis executive vice president and Portland managing director, in the company's just released 2002 Real Estate Forecast on the office, industrial and investment markets.

PORTLAND-The national provider of assisted living facilities will issue 6.5 million shares on the over-the-counter market, possibly Pink Sheets, under the symbol ALSC. Owners of the original stock will receive 4% of the new shares.

PORTLAND-"We expect that we will turn the corner on this recession by the third quarter of 2002," says Bradford H. Fletcher, Grubb & Ellis executive vice president and Portland managing director, in the company's just released 2002 Real Estate Forecast on the office, industrial and investment markets.

CITY OF COMMERCE, CA-As 2001 wound down, the 130-year-old publicly traded warehouse grocery chain closed on a five-year synthetic lease financing that paid off a smaller, shorter-term loan and secured an expanded revolving line of credit.