The upscale La Casa del Zorro desert resort has been sold for $2.35 million.

(Bloomberg) -- Taylor Morrison Home Corp., a builder of homes in the United States and Canada, doubled the amount it will seek in a U.S. initial public offering to $500 million.

BioMed Realty Trust Inc. (NYSE: BMR) has priced its public offering of 12.7 million shares of its common stock at $20.50 per share, bringing in approximately $260.4 million in gross proceeds. The offering is expected to close on or about Feb. 19.

The 32-unit apartment complex at 3604 Georgia St., San Diego 92103, has been sold for $3,325,000, cash.

The free-standing, approximately 7,868-square-foot retail building in the Rolando neighborhood at 6075 University Ave., San Diego 92115, has been sold for $1,875,000.

Grocery Outlet has leased 15,292 square feet of retail space at 9805 Campo Road, Spring Valley 91977, from CIF Holdings LLC. The property, in the Casa de Oro Plaza shopping center, was leased for 10 years at $1,886,268, for a grocery store.

More than 230 tax-defaulted properties are set to be sold at the 2013 Property Tax Sale Auction on March 13, according to San Diego County Treasurer-Tax Collector Dan McAllister.

Trustee deeds in San Diego are down 37.9 percent from January 2012, and notices of default are down 67.6 percent from this time last year, according to the San Diego County Assessor's Office.

The toils and rewards of smaller infill and mixed-use developments were the topics of a morning meeting of the San Diego/Tijuana Chapter of the Urban Land Institute at the University Club on Tuesday.

Changes to the Pasha Automotive Services leasehold in National City were unanimously approved in concept by the Board of Port Commissioners on Tuesday.

As San Diego County’s economy improves, there’s growing risk that “crazy money” from real estate speculators could take prices back into bubble territory, a panel of local business and civic leaders told a packed audience at the Estancia La Jolla resort.

The two flex industrial/office buildings, totaling approximately 8,500 square feet each at 133-135 Pacific St. in San Marcos 92069, have been sold for $1.35 million, cash.

The Deal of the Week is the $8.5 million sale of the approximately 33,400-square-foot retail center at 7438-7466 Girard Ave. in La Jolla.

(AP) -- At least 30 fish were killed after a drinking water pipe burst and sent thousands of gallons of chlorinated water into a San Francisco Bay area creek.

The 4,800-square-foot retail/office property in North Park at 3783-3789 Park Blvd., San Diego 92103, has been sold for $1.26 million.

The approximately 6,041-square-foot industrial condominium in the third phase of the Burke Sycamore Business Center, at 1045 La Mirada Court in Vista 92081, has been sold for $816,000, cash.

Local developer Dean Welsh of Vertical Infill has affiliated with Harcourts USA to form Harcourts Prime Properties Carmel Valley.

Facing stale cereal sales, Kashi Co. will uproot its longtime La Jolla headquarters and lay off dozens of local workers in the process.

(AP) -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and other government officials are hosting a birthday party for America's newest national park, a 26,000-acre expanse of volcanic rock and chaparral in Central California.

The vacant and foreclosed building in Pacific Beach at 1366 Hornblend (on the corner of Gresham Street), San Diego 92109, has been sold for $1.1 million.