HMB Partners spends $7.6M for Financial Plaza building; Santa Fe investors buy Diamond Hill. (HMB Partners Inc.; Santa Fe, New Mexico; BGK Properties Inc.)

TWO LOCAL office building sales beat the new year by a matter of days.

Englewood-based HMB Partners Inc. picked up the Financial Plaza at Belleview Avenue and Interstate 25 for $7.6 million, closing Dec. 22, said HMB principal Tom Morrill.

"Financial Plaza is a quality B building in one of the best locations in the Tech Center," Morrill said.

Pension-fund adviser TCW Realty Advisors sold the 133,315-square-foot, two-building property. CB Commercial Real Estate Group Inc. brokers Rob Link, who leased the building for the last eight years, and Mary Sullivan represented TCW in the deal.

The property boasts 90 percent occupancy by tenants such as Van …