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Moving House: NBC Sports, United Talent Agency Sign for New HQs

Two major firms signed big deals to move their respective headquarters to new digs this past week: NBC Sports will relocate to Stamford, Conn., and United Talent Agency will take new digs in Beverly Hills.

NYU Capital Markets Special Report: Opportunity in Distress

This year’s Capital Markets in Real Estate conference by the NYU Schack Institute took on a decidedly positive note, with industry leaders seeing investment opportunities for CRE.

Shippensburg University Kicks Off $200M Student-Housing Development

Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania breaks ground today on its $200 million student-housing initiative that will be completed in three phases through January 2013 by developer Campus Apartments.

Ashforth’s West Coast Arm Bought by Its CEO

Ashforth Pacific, the West Coast operating subsidiary of The Ashforth Company, has just been purchased by Scott Langley, the subsidiary’s CEO for the past 10 years.

$55M for a Manufactured Seniors Home Community Outside Boston

A privately owned Chicago firm has just purchased Oak Point, a 870-unit seniors manufactured-home community in Middleborough, Mass., for $55 million.

Avison Young Opens Vegas Office

The largest independently owned commercial real estate services company in Canada is about to grow even larger, as Avison Young has just opened a Las Vegas office with Joseph Kupiec at the helm.

SL Green to Sell 1.4 MSF Long Island City Office for $476M

SL Green has entered into a deal to sell One Court Square, a 1.4 million-square-foot office complex in Long Island City in Queens, N.Y., to a private-investor group for $476 million.

Reno’s Meadowood Mall Sees $125M Refi

Financing to the tune of $125 million has been put in place for Meadowood Mall, an 877,000-square-foot retail property in Reno, Nev., in a deal orchestrated by HFF on behalf of Meadowood Mall SPE.

$159M Chicago Apartment Complex Picked Up by RP Holdings

In a big Midwest move, RP Holdings L.L.C. just ponied up $159 million for a two-tower, 1,031-unit multi-housing property in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago.

Boston’s $92M Victor Apartments Break Ground

Boston’s newest housing development, The Victor, has just broken ground. The 12-story, 286-unit project is being built by Suffolk Construction at a cost of $92 million.