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Transactions: Health Care REIT Inc. buys MOB outside of Baltimore for $20.6 million, or $367 PSF

COLUMBIA, Md. – Toledo, Ohio-based Health Care REIT Inc. (NYSE: HCN) recently aquired the Charter Professional Builing in Columbia. The real investment trust (REIT) paid $20.6 million for the three-story, 56,103 square foot building, about $367 PSF Marketing the building for the seller, a partnership of physicians known as Aequus I LLC, was Colliers International-Baltimore. Columbia […]

Seavest Healthcare Properties and KIRCO have acquired the three-story, 149,000 square foot Beaumont Medical Center in West Bloomfield, Mich., near Detroit.
Photo Courtesy of Seavest Healthcare Properties

Transactions: Seavest, KIRCO Team for Another Buy

Partners acquire second large multi-specialty outpatient center in Detroit area By John B. Mugford The potential success, or lack thereof, of an off-campus medical office building (MOB) often hinges on a number of factors, with location perhaps being highest on the list.  As far as officers with White Plains, N.Y.-based Seavest Healthcare Properties LLC are […]

Healthcare Trust of America Inc. recently acquired Forest Park Pavilion on the campus of Forest Park Medical Center in Dallas for $26.75 million.
Photo courtesy of HTA

Transactions: HTA Lands MOB on Doc-Owned Campus

REIT caps quarter with $26.75 million acquisition of Forest Park Pavilion in Dallas By John B. Mugford Forest Park Medical Center in Dallas has to be considered one of the biggest success stories when it comes to beating the odds in the world of new hospital development. That’s because the relatively new hospital, which opened […]

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Thought Leaders: MOB Trades Set Record in Annual Transaction Volume

HAMMOND HANLON CAMP LLC Medical Office Building Quarterly Update    2012 was a record-setting year for MOB transaction volume, with nearly $5.57 billion in recorded transaction volume disclosed for the year, the highest of any year since Real Capital Analytics began tracking the data in 2002. The 2012 annual volume total was higher than the total […]

Mark Engstrom

Thought Leaders: The Impact of the Affordable Care Act

By Mark Engstrom Executive Vice President, Acquisitions Healthcare Trust of America, Inc. Healthcare Trust of America, Inc. (“HTA”) is taking note of last year’s most significant events and what impact these will have upon health care delivery in 2013 and beyond. Without question, the most notable event of last year was the Supreme Court decision […]

Industry Pulse: HEALTHCARE SPENDING SET TO REALLY TAKE OFF

Lest anyone forget what a meteoric rise is expected to take place in healthcare spending in coming years, a recent report spells it out rather clearly. Healthcare stocks have been on an impressive run to start 2013, Research Driven Investing at www.RDInvesting.com notes in a recent report. The firm says that the Centers for Medicare […]

Industry Pulse: MEDICAL PROPERTIES PART OF COMPANY ACQUISITION

When Realty Income Corp. (NYSE: O) closed on its $1.9 billion acquisition of American Realty Capital Trust (ARCT) in January, it received more than 500 properties as part of the purchase. In closing the deal, Escondido, Calif.-based Realty Income Corp., which owns more than 3,500 properties, also became an owner of some medical office buildings […]

Industry Pulse: 1$ BILLION YEAR AHEAD FOR ARC HEALTHCARE?

There’s no doubt that 2012 was a big year for American Realty Capital (ARC) Healthcare Trust. In fact, the New York-based, non-traded real estate investment trust (REIT) both raised and then invested more than $500 million on medical office buildings (MOBs), seniors housing properties and post-acute facilities. Yet the REIT’s officers say this year will […]

Industry Pulse: On The Record

Who is raising the most capital to buy MOBs? “The public healthcare REITs raised more money than any other REIT sector last year and the private REITs are raising tens of millions of dollars each day (to acquire MOBs).” Jim Kornick Managing Director Avison Young

Industry Pulse: ROCHESTER, MINN., TRYING TO HOLD (ONTO) THE MAYO

In cities large and small, hospitals and health systems are quite often a source of good-paying jobs and an important cog in the local economy. Nowhere, however, might a provider’s local impact be more prevalent than in Rochester, Minn., where the renowned 148-year-old Mayo Clinic touches just about everything and everyone. In the southeastern Minnesota […]

Editor’s Letter: Furious Finish for 2012

Our sources expected it – and they were right on Dear Reader: As we’ve noted in the past, here at Healthcare Real Estate Insights we recieve quarterly medical office building (MOB) sales reports from the fine folks at Real Capital Analytics (RCA) Inc.  We take that data, analyze it, seek and insights feedback from healthcare […]

News Release: Seavest acquires Beaumont Medical Center

White Plains, N.Y.-based healthcare real estate fund manager closes on purchase of 149,000 square foot West Bloomfield, Mich., outpatient center Seavest closed on the purchase of Beaumont Medical Center, West Bloomfield, Mich., Dec. 19. The outpatient facility offers a wide range of services, including surgery, children’s rehabilitation and adult physical therapy/occupational therapy. Please click on […]

News Release: Baylor Health Care System and Scott & White Healthcare Plan Merger

February 20 – Baylor Health Care System and Scott & White Healthcare jointly retained Cain Brothers to assist the two health systems in merger discussions that have culminated in a Letter of Intent that was signed in December. The combined Baylor Scott & White Health will be the State of Texas’ largest not-for-profit health system. […]

Tennova Portfolio

For Sale: Tennova Portfolio, Knoxville, Tenn., MSA

Call for Offers Newmark Grubb Knight Frank Capital Tennova Portfolio – Knoxville, Tenn. MSA Four on-campus and attached MOBs. Offers due Feb. 22, 2013. For more information on this listing, please visit: Tennova Portfolio Disclaimer: HREInsights.com posts listings for healthcare real estate for sale or lease for informational purposes only. HREI has no financial interest […]

Archives: February 2013

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