Pitt Chancellor Mark Nordenberg bought a new house this week on Bigelow Boulevard.

The… Pitt Chancellor Mark Nordenberg bought a new house this week on Bigelow Boulevard.

The Allegheny County Department of Real Estate records showed that Mark and Nikki Nordenberg filed the complete deed for the $800,000 property on Sept. 27. Pitt requires the chancellor to live in the University Residence, which is on Devonshire Street in Shadyside.

Nordenberg issued a short statement yesterday which indicated that the purchase was not a sign that he would retire soon.

“This purchase is the product of that longer-term personal planning and not a signal that I expect my service as chancellor to come to an end at any time in the near future,” he said.

The chancellor and his family have owned a house for years in the city’s East End. The statement and the county’s online records did not indicate that the Nordenberg family had sold that house.

“[The purchase] reflects our strong commitment to this community, where we now have lived for more than thirty years, and where we intend to continue living whenever my service as chancellor does come to an end,” Nordenberg said.