Transactions: Healthcare Realty Trust lands MOB attached to hospital in Seattle suburbs
BURIEN, Wash. – Nashville, Tenn.-based Healthcare Realty Trust Inc. (NYSE: HR) recently acquired a 60,161 square foot, five-story MOB in Burien, in the suburbs south of Seattle, for $22.675 million.
Transactions: Minnesota system sells building in sale-leaseback; Health Care REIT is the buyer
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Toledo, Ohio-based Health Care REIT (NYSE: HCN) recently found a monetization acquisition opportunity in downtown St. Paul, Minn., and it moved forward on the purchase of the Nasseff Specialty Center from Minneapolis-based Allina Health.
Transactions: ARC Healthcare Trust II acquires docs’ MOBs in Northwest Indiana for $46M
MUNSTER, Ind. – In what some observers are calling the Midwest’s largest medical office building (MOB) deal of 2014, New York-based ARC Healthcare Trust II closed on a five-building portfolio in Northwest Indiana, outside of Chicago, for about $46 million. The portfolio has a total of 165,000 square feet, meaning the unlisted real estate investment […]
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
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.
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.
Transactions: Harrison Street brings in $283M
Equity firm completes separate sales to Health Care REIT and CNL Healthcare By John B. Mugford Since its founding in the mid-2000s, Chicago-based Harrison Street Real Estate Capital has developed a successful formula for enhancing value in the properties it accumulates, holds and eventually sells in portfolios. The company accomplished such a strategy in recent […]
Transactions: CNL pays $47.9 million for MOBs in Glendale, Calif., and Massachusetts
ORLANDO, Fla. – In more news from CNL Healthcare Properties, the non-traded REIT recently made MOB acquisitions in Greater Boston and Glendale, Calif., paying a total of $47.9 million in two separate transactions. In Glendale, CNL acquired the Lee Hughes Medical Building, a 76,758 square foot MOB on the campus of the 500-bed Glendale Adventist […]
Transactions: Health Care REIT finds $200M deal
Firm acquires four-MOB portfolio in Southern California for more than $500 PSF By John B. Mugford The country’s second largest owner of healthcare real estate (HRE), Toledo, Ohio-based Health Care REIT (NYSE: HCN) recently found a deal to its liking in Southern California, picking up a portfolio of four healthcare properties with five facilities for […]
Transactions: CNL to land portfolio for $238 million
REIT agrees to buy 13 MOBs from pioneering MOB developer Meadows & Ohly By John B. Mugford One of the Southeast’s most prolific medical office building (MOB) developers during the past four decades will soon cash in on the market’s historically high pricing. Atlanta-based Meadows & Ohly LLC, which has developed more than 60 MOBs […]
Transactions: The Broe Group buys troubled D.C.-area office, plans to convert it to MOB
ROCKVILLE, Md. – Denver-based the Broe Group recently paid $16 million for a 120,000 square foot general office building in Rockville, Md., that it intends to convert to an MOB. The company has renamed the facility the Shady Grove Medical Pavilion, which is listed by RCA as a “troubled situation” property, as it has an […]
Transactions: Q2 MOB sales pick up the pace
Quarter saw $1.69 billion in volume, making the first half of 2014 a record-setter By John B. Mugford Sales of medical office buildings (MOBs) in the first half of 2014 showed no signs of slowing down, as the volume actually topped that of the first-half of a record-setting 2013. For the second quarter (Q2) of […]
Transactions: ProMed sells facilities for $205M
Israel-based subsidiary sells large building to HCP Inc., 5 MOBs to HTA By John B. Mugford It looks as if Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Healthcare Trust of America Inc. (NYSE: HTA) landed even more of a gem from New York-based ProMed Properties Inc. than reported in June. A couple of months after ProMed sold a six-building medical […]
Transactions: New hospital owner acquires MOB across the street in Downey, Calif.
DOWNEY, Calif. – On the heels of acquiring the former Downey Regional Medical Center, PIH Health recently purchased an MOB across the street from what is now known as PIH Health Hospital–Downey. The not-for-profit health system, which was founded in 1959 and is based in Whittier, Calif., paid $11.3 million for the 56,121 square foot […]




