Transactions

News Release: Magna Health Systems Completes Permanent Financing For Surgical Center; SomerCor 504 Provides Financing SBA 504 Program

Chicago, Ill. (July 19, 2013) – Magna Health Systems has secured permanent financing for its newly developed surgical center at 7456 S. State Road in Bedford Park, Ill. Gabe Beukinga, Senior Vice President, SomerCor 504 worked with Magna Health Systems to secure a significant portion of the loan through the SBA 504 loan program. The new […]

MedProperties Holdings and Equity Inc. recently closed on the acquisition of Evendale Healthcare Center in suburban Cincinnati.

News Release: MedProperties Holdings LLC adds Ohio MOB

Dallas-based firm partners with Equity Inc. to acquire the 65,670 square foot, Class A Evendale Healthcare Center in suburban Cincinnati. Extensive renovations are planned. CINCINNATI and DALLAS, July 18, 2013 – A recently-formed partnership of MedProperties Holdings LLC and Equity Inc. has acquired the Evendale Healthcare Center medical office building (MOB) in suburban Cincinnati. MedProperties […]

News Release: CNL Healthcare Properties Acquires Four Medical Office Buildings in Tennessee

CNL Healthcare Properties has acquired four medical office buildings in or near Knoxville, Tenn., from affiliates of N.T. Brinkman, Inc., for approximately $57.3 million. The four Knoxville Medical Office Properties total more than 200,000 square feet of modern, Class A, medical office space and include the Physicians Plaza A at North Knoxville Medical Center, Physicians […]

News Release: American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust Investment Update

American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust (“ARC HT”), is a publicly registered, non-traded real estate investment trust focused on the acquisition of income producing healthcare facilities across the medical care continuum. Company Highlights Completed $1.7 billion equity raise during 2Q 2013 Closed over $200 million of transactions in 2013 (approximately $900 million in total) Portfolio includes […]

Lincoln Healthcare building, Bettendorf, Iowa. (Rendering courtesy of EnTrust Realty Advisors LLC)

News Release: EnTrust Realty Advisors Announces the Sale of the Lincoln Healthcare Building in Bettendorf, IA

CHICAGO, July 9, 2013 – EnTrust Realty Advisors, LLC, announces the sale of the Lincoln Healthcare Building, a 39,899 SF medical office building in Bettendorf, IA.  James I. Clark III, EnTrust’s Managing Principal, announced the transaction.   EnTrust Realty Advisors and NAI Ruhl & Ruhl Commercial Company represented the seller, a private partnership, in the transaction; […]

News Release: Fairfield Advisors announces successful closing of St Vincent Medical Office Building

Denver CO & Little Rock AR / PR Newswire – Fairfield Asset Advisors, a national Real Estate Advisory firm focused on the HealthCare marketplace, facilitated the successful sale of the St Vincent Medical Office Building in Lonoke, AR. The Medical Office Building is anchored by the St Vincent Hospital System with headquarters in Little Rock […]

News Release: New York Downtown Hospital Merges with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

Newly named NewYork-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital is the only acute care hospital south of 14th Street NEW YORK (July 1, 2013) — NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital announced today that New York Downtown Hospital has become its sixth campus, the result of a merger between the two hospitals. The 180-bed community hospital, now renamed NewYork-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital, remains the […]

News Release: Emeritus Senior Living Announces Lease of 38 Communities

SEATTLE, WA, June 27, 2013 – Emeritus Corporation (NYSE: ESC) (“Emeritus”), the nation’s largest provider of assisted living and memory care services, today announced that the Company has entered into definitive agreements with Health Care REIT, Inc. (NYSE: HCN) (“HCN”) and Merrill Gardens under which Emeritus will lease a total of 38 senior housing communities […]

The 96-bed, 61,125 square foot Heartis Cleburne assisted living and memory care residence, south of Fort Worth, Texas, is the first of up to a dozen senior living facilities Caddis Partners plans to develop under its new Heartis brand. (Rendering courtesy of Caddis Partners)

Post-Acute & Senior Living: Firm puts its brand on senior sector

Caddis Partners plans to develop up to 12 senior residences in next 18 months By Murray W. Wolf Caddis Partners LLC, a healthcare real estate firm best known for its medical office buildings (MOBs), is jumping into the senior housing market with both feet. In recent weeks, the Dallas-based healthcare real estate development, management and […]

One of Griffin-American’s recent acquisitions was the one-story, 18,000 square foot Rockwall Medical Office Building II in the Dallas suburb of Rockwall, Texas. (Photo courtesy of Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II Inc.)

Transactions: Two months, 21 assets acquired

Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II spends $141.3 million on 17 MOBs, four SNFs By John B. Mugford In the largest of the more-recent transactions, the REIT purchased 11 properties in what is known as the Central Indiana MOB Portfolio. The seller was

Peoria, Ariz.-based Plaza Cos. has won the leasing assignment for the eight-building, 398,000 square foot Scottsdale Healthcare medical office building (MOB) portfolio, including the 97,549 square foot Mountain Vista MOB in Mesa, Ariz. (Photo courtesy of HCP Inc.)

Companies & People: Plaza lands big leasing assignment

Firm is now in charge of REIT’s 795,000 square foot portfolio in Greater Phoenix  By John B. Mugford When the Scottsdale Healthcare system in Arizona put a portfolio of medical office buildings (MOBs) on the market in late 2011, it was certainly big news in the healthcare real estate (HRE) sector.

Transactions: Broadstone acquires six MOBs from Milwaukee developer for $46.5 million

MILWAUKEE – In early June, Milwaukee-based Irgens, a healthcare and commercial real estate firm, sold six MOBs in a deal valued at $46.5 million. The buyer was Rochester, N.Y.-based Broadstone Real Estate.

Transactions: CNL Healthcare Properties adds to portfolio with $13.1M cancer center acquisition

WESTVILLE, Ind. – Orlando, Fla.-based CNL Healthcare Properties, an unlisted REIT focused on seniors housing and healthcare real estate (HRE), recently acquired a freestanding comprehensive cancer care center in Westville, Ind. The REIT, which is sponsored by CNL Financial Group LLC, paid

Transactions: Virtus, Flagship team up on $12.47 million MOB purchase in Greensboro, N.C.

GREENSBORO, N.C. – While it has flown under the radar a bit in the HRE sector, 10-year-old Austin, Texas-based Virtus Real Estate Capital has now acquired 47 medical office properties with affiliates and joint venture partners. In recent weeks, the private equity real estate investor partnered with Charlotte, N.C.-based Flagship Healthcare Real Estate Fund in […]

Silver Cross Hospital Pavilion A, New Lenox, Ill. (Photo courtesy of NexCore Group)

Companies & People: NexCore Group lands new tenants, expands others at MOB in New Lenox, Ill.

NEW LENOX, Ill. – Denver-based NexCore Group has made plenty of progress on filling up the MOB that it developed and owns on the campus of the new Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox, a southwest suburb of Chicago. NexCore reports that since the beginning of 2013 it has finalized leases for more than 22,000 […]