Los Angeles

MARINA DEL REY, CA-For the highest price ever paid for an apartment community in Los Angeles County, SSR Realty Advisors and one of its clients pick up a 583-unit complex in Marina Del Rey. Apartments here average 854 square feet with an average rent of $1,671 per month.

WOODLAND HILLS, CA-The insurance company takes 30,000 sf of space in a Warner Center office park owned by the REIT. The move will combine and expand two existing claims offices in Woodland Hills and Ventura.

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA-The three-story building is located at 8335 Sunset Blvd. The new owner plans to refurbish the structure. Brokers on the deal say the property drew six offers in excess of the $2.6 million asking price.

OXNARD, CA-AstroCosmos Metallurgical has signed a 10-year lease valued at $3.9 million. The company will be expanding its headquarters into a 70,000-sf facility here.

LOS ANGELES-The local office of Interior Architects, one of the largest interior design firms in the world, signs a 10-year lease at the same site but on a different floor. The transaction is valued in excess of $3 million.

LOS ANGELES-Qantas Airways, the airline company servicing the South Pacific, relocates its headquarters for the Americas/Pacific region. The company signs a seven-year lease deal in Howard Hughes Center

LOS ANGELES-The publishing house giant Hachette Filipacchi Media has expanded its Los Angeles office across from the Wilshire Courtyard office complex. The company has signed a five-year, $1.6-million agreement for 12,500 sf.

LOS ANGELES-Juergen Bartels, CEO of the London-based Le Meridien Hotels and Resorts, told a small crowd gathered in the Garden Room of his Le Meridien at Beverly Hills that the independent luxury hotel group has its sights set on becoming the number-one brand in the international hotel trade by 2004.