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NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. — Lucescu Realty has been quite active in 2011. According to Mark Lucescu, the firm’s president, his company has done about $500 million-worth of retail property transactions so far this year. This represents both completed transactions and transactions that are in escrow. Lucescu Realty has also expanded its operation with a new office at Howard Hughes Center in Las Vegas. In 2010, Lucescu was recognized for being one of the most active brokerage firms in the nation when it came to the sale of shopping centers valued at $25 million or more.