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News Release: 2014 HREI Insights Awards™ Finalists Announced

News Release: 2014 HREI Insights Awards™ Finalists Announced

Healthcare Real Estate Insights™ reveals the Finalists for the second annual national awards recognizing excellence in healthcare real estate. Winners will be named Dec. 16. MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 25, 2014 – Healthcare Real Estate Insights™ magazine is pleased to announce the Finalists of the 2014 HREI Insights Awards™, the only national awards totally dedicated to recognizing […]

Shawn A. Janus 
Senior Vice President, PMB

News Release: PMB welcomes Shawn A. Janus to its team as Senior Vice President

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 25, 2014 – Pacific Medical Buildings (PMB) is pleased to announce the recent addition of Shawn A. Janus to its team as Senior Vice President for healthcare development and acquisitions. “PMB is delighted to add Shawn to our team,” says Mark Toothacre, President of PMB. “Shawn is a top-flight healthcare real estate […]

Archives: November 2014

Archives: November 2014

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Cover Story: Black Friday for healthcare? How retail clinics are influencing real estate strategies

By Murray W. Wolf CVS is aggressively opening new MinuteClinics nationwide. Walgreens Healthcare Clinics have moved beyond low-level primary care into disease management. Target recently announced a retail clinic partnership with Kaiser Permanente – Kaiser’s first. And Walmart just opened several new retail clinics with an “everyday low price” of $40 per visit – or […]

Transactions: DocREIT finds monetization in Ga.

88 percent-occupied portfolio has 13 buildings in Columbus, southeast of Atlanta By John B. Mugford As things stand in the healthcare sector, some health systems are inclined to retain the ownership of as much of their real estate as possible. There are some systems, however, who say they are willing to explore their options, perhaps […]

Transactions: Like a broken record

Transactions: Like a broken record

Q3 2014 MOB sales break the all-time third quarter record from a year ago By John B. Mugford After three quarters of the year, 2014’s medical office building (MOB) sales volume was on pace to set the all-time yearly record, with a potential for topping the high mark set just a year ago. However, it’s […]

Transactions: DocREIT acquires MOB portfolio for $23.1 million from Laub Realty

PENNSYLVANIA – In more news from Physicians Realty Trust, the REIT recently acquired a five-property medical portfolio from Bronx, N.Y.-based Laub Realty, a firm founded by Michael Laub that owns commercial properties in 12 states. The NGKF healthcare team – headed by Tood Perman, Garth Hogan and John Cobb – represented the seller.

One of the recent deals struck by Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III is the planned $41.6 million acquisition of the four-story, 154,089 square foot Morristown Professional Building in Morristown, N.J. The price is $41.6 million.
(Photo courtesy of Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates Inc.)

Transactions: Griffin-American taking big deals

Non-traded REIT landing MOB portfolios for more than $20M; more deals coming By John B. Mugford With 2014 looking like the “year of the medical office building (MOB) portfolio sale,” Irvine, Calif.-based Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III did its part to solidify such a notion by entering two big deals recently.

The Surgical Institute of Reading, in Wyomissing, Pa., is being offered for sale by the physician-owners of the facility and Nueterra. It opened for business in 2007.
(Photo courtesy of Brown Gibbons Lang Real Estate Partners)

Hot Property: Loads of interest in surgical hospital

Physician-owned, 33,217 square foot facility is in affluent area near Reading, Pa. Address: 2752 Century Blvd. City: Wyomissing, Pa. Size: 15 beds, 33,217 square feet Occupancy: 100% Tenant: Surgical Institute of Reading Seller: TEGRA Reading Med. Surg. LLC Brokers: Christopher L. Stai and Clinton J. Parker, Brown Gibbons Lang | Real Estate Partners (BGLRP) Lease […]

The three-story, 55,000 square foot Sierra Vista Medical Office Building is scheduled to open next
spring in conjunction with the opening of a replacement hospital in the southern Arizona community.
(Rendering courtesy of Rendina Healthcare Real Estate)

Outpatient Projects: Rendina developing Arizona MOB

Three-story, 55,000 square foot facility to be built next to replacement hospital By John B. Mugford As construction continues on a $55 million replacement hospital in Sierra Vista, Ariz., in the far southern part of the state, a 55,000 square foot MOB being developed by a third-party owner is also well underway on the 77-acre […]

Outpatient Projects: HCP plans MOB, mixed-use project

Public REIT to acquire, redevelop assisted living tower site in Fort Worth, Texas By John B. Mugford Irvine, Calif.-based HCP Inc. (NYSE: HCP) isn’t just an owner of healthcare real estate; it’s a developer, too. The publicly traded REIT is in the process of buying and redeveloping the site of an aging assisted living tower […]

Outpatient Projects: NCA Real Estate to develop MOB on site next to hospital in Sierra Vista, Calif.

SIERRA VISTA, Calif. – There’s a perfect storm brewing in California for moving more and more healthcare services into outpatient settings. In addition to a national shift toward providing more care outside of the hospital, health systems in the Golden State have an extra incentive to provide services in lower-cost settings: the state’s Senate Bill […]

Outpatient Projects: New cancer center to add capacity at MOB in Blue Ridge Mountains

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. — The size of a future medical project being planned by a partnership of local government and private entities has increased significantly recently, as a local hospital has decided to offer cancer services in the building in addition to other services. Known as the Joint Health Sciences Building, the 95,000 square foot building […]

Outpatient Projects: As renovation continues, Seattle MOB lands Swedish as a tenant

SEATTLE, Wash. — So far so good for a joint venture partnership that acquired a biotech facility next to Swedish Medical Center-First Hill hospital in the heart of Seattle. In 2013, the partnership of Dallas-based Trammell Crow Co. and Seattle-based Washington Capital Management (WCM) purchased a facility at 1124 Columbia St., for $42.6 million from […]