Building on its “longstanding relationship with J.P. Morgan,” services firm Cassidy Turley has just landed a contract to lease and manage 2.5 million square feet of office space at Dallas’ Fountain Place and Houston’s Post Oak Central.

Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II picked up $166.5 million worth of commercial real estate from the partnership of Westport Capital Partners and Reichmann International Development in the form of 10 skilled-nursing facilities across the Southwest.

Eight years after selling The Plaza at Legacy in Plano, Texas, Hines has welcomed the 215,000-square-foot office property back into its portfolio.

Aided by $52 million of financing placed by Holliday Fenoglio Fowler L.P., The Scion Group and Arch Street Capital Advisors have snapped up two student housing properties in Texas.

Following the signing of a 358,100-square-foot lease, LydondellBasell, a longtime tenant of 1 Houston Center, will see the building renamed the LydondellBasell Tower.

The Morgan Group, a company focused on development, construction and property management of luxury multi-family properties, has arranged financing of $146 million on behalf of its affiliated investment partnerships.

In a $66 million deal that completes the second phase of the Scottsdale Promenade sale, Lucescu Realty has sold the Promenade Corporate Center to Excel Trust, a publicly traded REIT.

Approximately eight months after Trammell Crow and Principal Real Estate Investors snapped up the former Hewlett-Packard headquarters in Houston, the joint venture has secured a commitment from Noble Energy Inc. to occupy the 497,000-square-foot office building in its entirety.

American Campus Communities Inc. has just expanded its portfolio by nearly 2,000 beds with the acquisition of 26 West Apartments in Austin and the purchase of a controlling stake in The Varsity in College Park, Md., for a total of $208 million.

Coventry Real Estate Partners has tapped Vestar to manage Christown Spectrum Mall, a 1.1 million-square-foot, super-regional retail destination in Phoenix.