In a couple of months, a generous dollop of condominiums will be dropped on an already-heaping pile of unsold units in downtown Raleigh and fed to a market that has largely lost its appetite.

Real Deals:Plans for a massive, eco-friendly mixed-use development are taking form in Apex -- so massive that they're in danger of jamming inboxes and fax machines across the region. Or so town officials say.

Real Deals:To get a building out of the ground these days, a developer needs a slam-dunk project, some experience, lots of cash and a good relationship with a willing lender.

Real Deals:A Cary developer is dusting off plans to build a luxury hotel near Raleigh-Durham International Airport -- a sign that investors and lenders are confident the economic turnaround is getting closer.

Real Deals:Ram Development hasn't given up on plans to build 140 condominiums in downtown Chapel Hill. But it has given up the ambitious prices of yesteryear in an effort to forge ahead in a soft housing market.

Hagel:Bob Barrett wants to build a 350-room luxury hotel in West Raleigh. And he wants to break ground in less than a year.

Real Deals:During the first three months of the year, investors spent roughly $50 million on offices, apartments, warehouses and shopping centers in the Triangle.

Hagel:Patterson Place seems to be in a time machine, one that takes you back to an era of free-flowing financing for commercial real estate projects. Think three years ago.

Real Deals:Investors like to use the term underlying fundamentals as a fancy way to describe supply and demand. These days they're paying attention to that industry's most fundamental under-layer: dirt.

Real Deals:Lenders, who have tightened up in the past year and a half as the economy soured, have made it harder for many landlords to refinance debt.

In a couple of months, a generous dollop of condominiums will be dropped on an already-heaping pile of unsold units in downtown Raleigh and fed to a market that has largely lost its appetite.

Real Deals:Plans for a massive, eco-friendly mixed-use development are taking form in Apex -- so massive that they're in danger of jamming inboxes and fax machines across the region. Or so town officials say.

Real Deals:To get a building out of the ground these days, a developer needs a slam-dunk project, some experience, lots of cash and a good relationship with a willing lender.

Real Deals:A Cary developer is dusting off plans to build a luxury hotel near Raleigh-Durham International Airport -- a sign that investors and lenders are confident the economic turnaround is getting closer.

Real Deals:Ram Development hasn't given up on plans to build 140 condominiums in downtown Chapel Hill. But it has given up the ambitious prices of yesteryear in an effort to forge ahead in a soft housing market.

Hagel:Bob Barrett wants to build a 350-room luxury hotel in West Raleigh. And he wants to break ground in less than a year.

Real Deals:During the first three months of the year, investors spent roughly $50 million on offices, apartments, warehouses and shopping centers in the Triangle.

Hagel:Patterson Place seems to be in a time machine, one that takes you back to an era of free-flowing financing for commercial real estate projects. Think three years ago.

Real Deals:Investors like to use the term underlying fundamentals as a fancy way to describe supply and demand. These days they're paying attention to that industry's most fundamental under-layer: dirt.

Real Deals:Lenders, who have tightened up in the past year and a half as the economy soured, have made it harder for many landlords to refinance debt.