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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 […]

The new U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Las Vegas is 74 months behind schedule and 80 percent over budget. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)

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

Executives of Healthcare Realty Trust say the outlook is very positive for their firm. (Photo courtesy of HR)

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.

Although some restoration work has already been done, the fate of Long Beach (N.Y.) Medical Center is now clouded by merger talks. (Photo courtesy of Long Beach Medical Center)

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.

Allina Health received about $290 per square foot when it recently sold this complex near Minneapolis. Have MOB prices peaked? (HREI photo)

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

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?

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 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

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 […]