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The Daily Record placed its Saratoga Street home of almost 100 years on the market Wednesday and is looking downtown for "nicer," "modern" offices for its 35 employees, publisher Suzanne Fischer-Huettner said.

Real estate experts offered a gloomy view of the market for some of the office space in the core of downtown, telling the Baltimore Development Corp. Thursday it is becoming harder for owners of offices along the Baltimore and Charles Street corridors to find tenants.

City officials went shopping for deals at a Las Vegas retail real estate conference this week, looking for big name stores to locate here, even as one developer stopped work on plan for a Walmart in Remington.

A Baltimore-based private real estate company acquired the troubled Eastpoint Mall last month for $33.4 million, only slightly more than the 68-acre property fetched at foreclosure auction in 2012.

On average, law firms still occupy two to three times the space per worker as companies in banking, finance, insurance and technology, according to a national October study by Cushman & Wakefield. But with increasing pressure on firms to lower costs, that's expected to change.

Baltimore's political and business leaders praised the New York-based real estate investment firm purchasing Harborplace as a potential savior for the Inner Harbor mall that has struggled to find the right mix of tenants to appeal to both tourists and locals.

Howard Hughes Corp. buys former Ryland Group headquarters in downtown Columbia

Howard Hughes purchased a nine-story office building adjacent to the Columbia Mall in downtown Columbia.

An Owings Mills-based real estate investment and development group has purchased the New Town Village Shopping Center for $22.5 million, the buyer announced Wednesday.

The Village of Cross Keys has been sold by General Growth Properties to Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp., a retail and office property investor, according to a notice to tenants.