REAL ESTATE

Home for Builder: Centex Homes, buoyed by its recent purchase of 915 lots in Foothill Ranch, has just leased nearly 20,000-square-feet of office space in Corona to house its Southern California regional office. The Dallas-based home builder, the nation’s largest, has several Southern California home developments including those in San Clemente, Rancho Cucamonga, Hemet and Lake Elsinore. . . . Digital Equipment Corp., the Massachusetts-based computer maker recently renewed its 81,759-square-foot lease at Executive Park, the Irvine Co.’s 580,000-square-foot business center in Irvine. Terms of the five-year lease were not disclosed. An estimated 350 Digital employees are housed there.