Companies & People: More Company News
■ Colliers | Baltimore recently completed two long-term leases for spaces at Waterloo Crossing, a Medical Community, a speculative two-building complex under construction in Columbia, Md. Colliers handles leasing for the complex, which is slated for completion in late summer 2013. One of the largest local medical practices, whose name was not revealed, has signed […]
Industry Pulse: VA hospitals plagued by delays, cost overruns
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is providing plenty of construction jobs and perhaps boosting local economies while building a number of new hospitals around the country. Four of the most visible projects, which have projected price tags in the hundreds of millions of dollars each, are in
Industry Pulse: Systems are moving on and need capital
Providers are powering past the indecision of Obamacare. At least that was the assessment of the executive team of Healthcare Realty Trust Inc. (NYSE: HR) on May 2, during the firm’s first quarter (Q1) earnings conference call.
Industry Pulse: Forecast uncertain for Sandy-battered hospital
The last hospital to remain closed as a result of the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 remains, well, unopened. And according to the latest reports, it might never open as a hospital again.
Industry Pulse: Record MOB prices not here to stay
Recent interest rate changes give pause to some investors. Despite record-high medical office building (MOB) prices, recent interest rate fluctuations show that those prices won’t be around forever. That’s according to most recent Medical Office Investor Update report from CBRE.
Industry Pulse: On the Record
Does Health Care REIT plan to sell more medical office buildings? “We can always be proactively looking to prune our portfolio, but… I think the vast majority of the significant disposition listing has been completed.” Scott A. Estes CFO & EVP Health Care REIT Will MPT make additional MOB acquisitions this year? “Our active acquisitions […]
Capital Markets: Is the market in for stormy weather?
Healthcare REITs are feeling the brunt of recent interest rate uncertainty The market feels a little like the weather in the northern states just as winter arrives and a big, early season storm displaces the colors and the lingering warmth of fall. The last month or so has brought significant shifts in interest rates, market […]
REIT Report: Healthcare reform has HTA thinking big
REIT is adapting its leasing strategy as medical office tenants increase in size By Murray W. Wolf As we have been hearing for the past couple of years, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as healthcare reform, as well as other economic factors, are driving more and more formerly independent physicians […]
Editor’s Letter: Tidbits and topics
Miscellaneous news from around the HRE sector Dear Reader: We come across plenty of tidbits and hear about so many things taking place in the healthcare real estate (HRE) sector that it’s not always easy to include all of the information in each issue of Healthcare Real Estate InsightsTM. So this month I decided to […]
News Release: Peoria business receives $250,000 Innovation Challenge Grant
Nasseo Inc., a Peoria-based company, located at BioAccel’s medical device accelerator BioInspire, was a recipient of a $250,000 Innovation Challenge Grant June 11. The grant was awarded through the Innovation Challenge, a bi-annual business plan competition offered by the Arizona Commerce Authority. Nasseo is a medical device company dedicated to providing clinicians and patients smarter […]
News Release: New Camp Pendleton Naval Replacement Hospital Construction Teams Stomp Competition at World Famous 10K Mud Run
183 Clark/McCarthy JV employees, subcontractor partners, owner’s reps and friends & family members team up to raise $8,100 for ASYMCA as part of annual “mud madness” SAN DIEGO – (June 20, 2013) – Just as the Clark/McCarthy joint venture design-build team is out ahead of construction on the new 500,000-square-foot Camp Pendleton Naval Replacement Hospital, […]
News Release: GE Capital Provides $89 Million in Medical Office Building Financing to MB Real Estate
BETHESDA, MD – June 24, 2013 — GE Capital, Healthcare Financial Services announced today that it has provided $89 million in senior secured financing to MB Real Estate. The financing will be used to support the purchase of a medical office building in Atlanta, GA. “GE Capital has proven to be a reliable debt […]
Investment Opportunity: Landmark Office and Medical Office Building in Downtown Jacksonville
Offering Summary On behalf of the Owner, CBRE, Inc. as exclusive agent, is pleased to offer for sale the Aetna Building (the “Property”), a 20-story, Class A landmark office and medical office building in Downtown Jacksonville. The Aetna Building consisting of approximately 494,437 square feet of rentable area is 98% leased to thirteen (13) tenants […]
News Release: OGA Breaks Ground on Seven Medical Facilities Spanning Five States in June
Outpatient buildings totaling over 47,000 square feet, located from Georgia to Michigan, now underway Nashville, Tenn. – OGA, a national full service real estate services and development company, has broken ground on seven new outpatient clinics in Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Michigan and South Carolina. In total, the projects represent 47,171 square feet of medical space […]
News Release: CNL Healthcare Properties Acquires Indiana Cancer TreatmentT Center
(ORLANDO, Fla.) June 20, 2013 — CNL Healthcare Properties, an investment offering focused on senior housing and healthcare real estate, has acquired the LaPorte Cancer Center, a freestanding comprehensive cancer care center in Westville, Ind., from Holladay Properties for $13.1 million. The 30,268-square-foot property is fully leased on a long-term, triple-net basis by the largest […]