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Ronald P. Fish, an attorney who worked in commercial real estate, died Saturday at Maryland General Hospital of complications from a spinal cord injury he suffered in an auto accident near his home last year. The Tuscany-Canterbury resident was 68. Born in Washington and raised in Forest Park, he was a 1957 graduate of City College, where he played tennis and squash. He earned a history degree at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., and graduated from the University of Maryland Law School in 1964.

`Solid' gains forecast for commercial real estate market The U.S. commercial real estate market should experience "solid" gains through 2006, the National Association of Realtors said Tuesday. "Even with a lot of new construction around the country, we are seeing healthy levels of commercial real estate space being purchased, rented and occupied," David Lereah, NAR's chief economist, said in the group's latest forecast for the commercial real estate market. The group's latest forecast comes as U.S. bank regulators are paying more attention to rising commercial real estate concentrations at some banks.

A Mass of Christian burial for Troy Michael Vance, a commercial real estate leasing and marketing manager who was killed Sunday when he was struck by a car while walking in the 1000 block of York Road in Towson, was to be offered at 11:30 a.m. today at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, 101 Church Lane in Texas. He was 26.The former star athlete and honor student at Loyola High School lived in Chevy Chase.Since his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, he had worked in commercial real estate, first for the Trammell-Crow Co. in Northern Virginia and then for MIE Investments in Baltimore.

Commercial real estate new leasing activity in Maryland of at least 2,000 square feet: Tenant Landlord Location Square footage Agent(s) Mid-Atlantic Neurosurgical Associates P/A The Commerce Center Venture LLP 1777 Reisterstown Road, Pikesville 2,307 M. Glick, CC, for the tenant; T. Mink and J. Purcell, Mac, for the landlord Northlake Partners t/a A Step Ahead Kenilworth L/P 800 Kenilworth Drive, Towson 2,000 J. Harrington, Mac, for both parties....

NEW YORK -- Delinquent mortgages at Citicorp, the nation's largest home lender, increased substantially in the quarter that ended Sept. 30, with much of the rise coming from the economically-depressed Northeast.The rise in mortgage loan delinquencies at Citicorp is a reminder, bankers and analysts said, that defaults and losses are likely to increase for most kinds of bank loans as the economy weakens.In the last year, while Citicorp, which operates Citibank, the nation's largest bank, and many other banking companies have been hurt by heavy losses on commercial real estate loans, mortgage loan portfolios have fared much better.

O'Conor, Piper & Flynn Realtors yesterday confirmed it intends to sell its commercial brokerage interests to the MacKenzie Co., ending a five-year partnership between the two longtime Baltimore real estate firms.Lutherville-based MacKenzie's decision to split the company -- known as MacKenzie/O'Conor, Piper & Flynn Commercial Real Estate Services -- stemmed from a dispute involving limited commercial brokerage work conducted by OPF residential agents, which MacKenzie contended presented a conflict of interest, sources said.