HREI board members foresee a strong year, while also expressing some caution
By John B. Mugford
The HREI Editorial Advisory Board met April 14 in a conference room at the headquarters of Healthcare Realty Trust (NYSE: HR) in Nashville, Tenn. (HREI photo)
Although there is certainly plenty of turmoil around the globe, professionals with many of the top firms are optimistic about the year ahead. At least that’s how a vast majority of the members of the HREI™ Editorial Advisory Board see it.
At our annual meeting, held this year on April 14 in a conference room at the headquarters of Healthcare Realty Trust (NYSE: HR) in Nashville, Tenn., we asked our board members how their businesses fared in 2025 and how they expect them to fare for the remainder of 2026.
In their anonymous responses, 22 of the 24 board members in attendance, or almost 92 percent, said they expect to grow their businesses in 2026. Of those, 12 respondents, or 50 percent of our attending board members, said they expect their firm’s business to increase by more than 10 percent during the year ahead. Ten others said they expect business to increase from 1 percent and 10 percent.
Since the HREI board comprises top executives with many of the sector’s leading firms, their responses can perhaps be considered a bellwether of HRE executives’ perceptions of how the sector as a whole is performing and will perform this year. The professionals on the board represent almost every type of discipline involved in HRE, from development to capital markets (brokerage), from leasing to property management, from real estate law to consultation. Several of the firms provide multiple services.
The reasons our board members cited for their overall optimism varied, from
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