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Corporate Property Associates 17-Global Inc., a non-traded REIT affiliate of W.P. Carey & Co., has spent $163.4 million on a 42-property portfolio of self-storage facilities located in California, Illinois and Hawaii.

Suffolk Construction has been busy in Boston, breaking ground on the $220 million, 390,000-square-foot Millennium Place III residential tower in Downtown — its second groundbreaking project in two weeks.

Penzance has just purchased its own slice of American history for the price of $76 million, picking up one of the two office towers in the iconic Washington, D.C.-based Watergate complex.

U.S. consumer confidence saw an unexpected bounce back toward the positive in November, but home prices didn’t move much during the third quarter. And investors are feeling more optimistic these days, according to the State Street Confidence Index.

Hartz Mountain Industries has snapped up the one-acre parcel at 99 Hudson in Jersey City in a transaction valued at $35 million.

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SJP Properties, owner and developer of the year-old 11 Times Square in Manhattan, has tapped Jones Lang LaSalle to serve as the exclusive leasing agent for the 1.1 million-square-foot office tower.