AUSTIN--Longbow Real Estate Group, a new firm formed by local brokers Nick Nelson and Jim Young, has made its first lease announcement.

HOUSTON--Memorial City Medical Plaza 4, of the Memorial Hermann Health System, has been named “The Outstanding Building of the Year” (TOBY) in the 2015 Medical Office Building category by the Houston chapter of the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA), Transwestern has announced.

DALLAS--Hart Advisors Group LLC has hired a 28-year commercial real estate veteran to be its new chief operations officer.

Irving—Los Angeles-based National Asset Services (NAS) has assumed asset management of Hunter Plaza, a 105,864-square-foot shopping center in Irving. NAS will assume management responsibilities of the neighborhood shopping center on behalf of a group of 21 tenant-in-common co-owners, who each has a deeded interest in the retail property.

HOUSTON-- Moody Rambin has been awarded the leasing and management of Detroit-based Gupta Partners' 600,000-square-foot office portfolio in Houston.

AUSTIN--Atlanta-based Wood Partners LLC is banking on the expanding housing market in the Austin/San Antonio corridor, having recently opened a new office in Austin.

DALLAS--Gladstone Commercial Corp. is making the push into Dallas/Fort Worth, not to mention other Texas markets.

HOUSTON--The Port of Houston and the city's industrial outlook will be the focus of a panel at the upcoming RealShare Houston conference, on March 31 at The Houstonian hotel.