San Francisco

SAN JOSE, CA-The developer of the Bella Villagio Apartments here refinances the 231-unit property with a 10-year fixed-rate loan.

SAN FRANCISCO-Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory LLP next June will move to the Boston Properties office building from 333 Bush, where its lease is up at the end of May.

SAN JOSE-Equity Office Properties Trust names Richard Scott--most recently principal and senior vice president of Commercial Property Services Co. in Santa Clara, CAits managing director leasing in the San Jose region.

MAMMOTH LAKES, CA-Fifty-two one-, two-, and three-bedroom resort condominiums here--the final release of homes in Grand Sierra Lodge, the third phase of The Village at Mammoth--are sold this week at prices ranging from $380,000 to more than $1.3 million.

BRISBANE CA-The Woodland Hills, CA-based real estate investment firm is buying the class A office building in Brisbane from Hitachi, which occupies 40% of the building. Earlier this month, Younan acquired the 59,000-sf Mowry office building in Newark, CA, for $7 million.<P>

LAFAYETTE, CA-The Lafayette-based purveyor of tenancy-in-common transactions is expecting its exponential growth during the first half of 2003 to continue, with projected year-end results in excess of 250 completed transactions and real estate value approaching $500 million.

SAN FRANCISCO-In the largest lease the CBD has seen in a couple of years, the locally based international law firm Orrick Herrington and Sutcliffe leases the top four floors of a new 10-story Downtown building developed by Wilson Meany Sullivan for Equity Office Properties.

OAKLAND, CA-The City of Oakland plans to sell Preservation Park, a complex of restored houses that provides office space to nonprofit organizations, to raise money for the Forest City project.