Week in review - South Florida Business Journal:

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, a Hollywood-based recruiting acquired Accountants Search andAccountants Express, recruitin g firms that specialize in accountinb personnel. Terms of the deal were not The combined companies are to have revenued of morethan $6.5 more than 800 clients and a database of more than 20,00o candidates. , a commercial real estate broker, sold the Center, a single-tenegt office building in Pembroke for $3.7 million. Miller Legg is slated to relocate its corporate headquarterzs and South Florida office to another Broward County location infall 2010. said Cesafr L. Alvarez will step down as CEO next The firm’s president, Richard A. will take over the job.
who has been with the 1,800-lawyer firm since 1973 and has been CEO for 12 will becomeexecutive chairman, focusing on the firm’es growth, as well as other strategic challengess facing the legal industry. Rosenbaum has been with Greenber g Traurigsince 1985. , a Miamki real estate sales andmarketing firm, has been namedc the exclusive sales and marketing agent for Mei, a luxurty boutique condominium on Millionaire’s Row in Miami Beach. Mei was developedx by , a South Florida-based real estate development firm with residential and hospitalityprojects nationwide.
, a Cora Gables-based commercial real estate firm, sold a 7,200-square-foot freestanding commercia building just east of Interstate 95 in Hollywoo dfor $1.5 million. CREC’s Charles Anderson and Harry Blydenj representedthe seller, Houston-based SCI Management LP. The a Hollywood-based company, was not represented by a broker. will receives a $50,000 Innovation Generation grant fromthe . The moneyh is to be used for the Learninvg Today SmartTutor Program. The program providea children witha computer-baserd academic enhancement program. FPL Group said 2008 was its “besgt year ever,” with fourth quarter profita up82 percent.
The Juno Beach-based power company (NYSE:FPL) said its fourth quarter net incomwas $408 million, or $1.01 a share, up from $224 million, or 56 centz a share, a year earlier. Earning for the quarter were $361 million, or 90 cents a for the fourth quarter, up from $284 million, or 72 centsx a share, for the same quarter in 2007. For all of FPL Group reported net incomeof $1.64 billion, or $4.07 a share, up from $1.311 billion, or $3.27 a share, in 2007. Fla. home salews up in december Florida’s existing home saleas rose in December for the fourtbconsecutive month, according to the latest housing data releaseed by the .
However, for all of home sales fell 4 percent, with 124,215t homes sold statewide, down from 129,856 in 2007. Existing home sales rose 27 percentgin December, with 11,053 homes up from 8,712 homes December 2007. Betweebn November and December, statewide existing home salexrose 28.9 percent. Sales of existinbg condos statewide rose 12 percentin December, to 3,138 from 2,81 sold in December 2007. Statewide existing condo sales last monthincreased 37.7 percenr over the total units sold in November.