FDIC, the banking oversight agency, has re-upped for 102,619 square feet at Ten 10th Street, the building’s owner, Parkway Properties Inc., said Monday.

Lincoln Property Co. has snapped up the Towers at Bella Terra, a 420,000-square-foot office and retail complex in Huntington Beach, Calif., in a $76 million cash transaction green-lighted by the state Superior Court.

The $62 million project will provide new big-box industrial space to a thirsty market and reclaim a brownfield site that was once home to the Bethlehem Steel Corp.

Interstate Hotels & Resorts has just announced its acquisition of the 265-room Crown Plaza Tampa East in a joint venture with Waramaug Hospitality L.L.C. and a private investment group.

While several surveys of late have generally said the economic outlook is improving, the CRE executives at the Real Estate Roundtable have seen their outlook drop to its lowest point since 2009.

A Reuters consumer-sentiment index saw an uptick in late October, but the BEA said U.S. consumers are earning more but saving less through September. And a little-noticed trucking index made year-over-year gains in August.

The economy’s still blah, but there was a little good news this week. CPE’s economic analyst Dees Stribling gives his podcast for the week ending Oct. 28, 2011.

It’s been a busy week for SL Green Realty Corp., which, in perhaps its biggest news, signed a deal to sell the leased fee interest at 292 Madison Ave. for $85 million.

Purchased in two separate transactions, Multi-Employer Property Trust has grabbed two grocery-anchored properties, with an aggregate 524,000 square feet, for a combined price tag of $122.6 million.

“Be patient” was the advice of executives opening day two of the ULI Fall Meeting. With the economy’s direction tough to predict right now but in their opinion unlikely to take a second dip into recession, waiting out the volatility will bear fruit.