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Industry Pulse: All of our COVID-19 coverage in one place

Industry Pulse: All of our COVID-19 coverage in one place

For your convenience, here are links to most of the COVID-19 coverage HREI has published to date: Feature Story: Recovery could be slower; U-shaped vs. V-shaped REIT Report: REITs reacting to COVID-19, not necessarily buying Feature Story: HRE update from the front lines Feature Story: The MOB market did well during Q1 Feature Story: Your […]

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Industry Pulse: Keeping an eye on the coronavirus effect

HRE sector professionals not yet ready to comment on possible market pause NATIONWIDE — Concerns over the coronavirus, or COVID-19, coupled with falling oil prices, have had an unmistakable impact on global financial markets. Last week (March 2-6), stocks suffered their worst weekly decline since the 2008 financial crisis, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) plunged […]

The CNL MOB portfolio includes the University of Tennessee Medical Center Cancer Institute building in Knoxville, Tenn. Photo courtesy of BarberMcMurry Architects

Industry Pulse: Healthcare REITs have been top performers in 2018

Amid a ‘volatile’ year for REITs, HFF says the healthcare sector delivered the best returns Although real estate investment trust (REIT) performance has been “volatile” in 2018, most REITs are on track to finish the year in positive territory, with healthcare REITs leading all sectors in total returns. That was according to the Quarterly Market Perspectives […]

Industry Pulse: A Stronger Post-Acute Sector Could Benefit HRE

If more health systems acquire post-acute operations, that could benefit the real estate One of the largest publicly traded, healthcare-focused real estate investment trusts (REITs), Toledo based Welltower Inc. (NYSE: WELL), has launched a new report focused on HRE trends and analyses.

Drone-based medical deliveries are here! Today, the Division of Aviation teamed up with WakeMed Health & Hospitals and Matternet to conduct the first round of test flights for drones to deliver medical packages.  (Photo courtesy of North Carolina Department of Transportation)

News Release: NCDOT Launches “First Flight” Under Drone Pilot Program in partnership with Matternet and WakeMed

August 29, 2018 RALEIGH, N.C. –  Drone-based medical deliveries are here.Today, the N.C. Department of Transportation’s Division of Aviation has teamed up with WakeMed Health & Hospitals and Matternet to conduct the first round of test flights for drones to carry simulated medical packages from Raleigh Medical Park, located across from WakeMed Raleigh Campus on Sunnybrook […]

Industry Pulse: HTA outlines why it remains bullish on MOBs

Industry Pulse: HTA outlines why it remains bullish on MOBs

Demographics, continued shift to outpatient care, to benefit the company In its latest investor presentation – released last week – Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Healthcare Trust of America Inc. (NYSE: HTA) provides information as to why it, as the largest owner of medical office buildings (MOBs) in the country, remains so bullish on the property type. The investor […]

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Industry Pulse: Is your HRE business ready to move beyond the boomers?

Millennials are projected to become the largest U.S. population group next year   Anyone who has been involved in the healthcare real estate (HRE) business for even a short time understands that one of the primary factors that makes the sector attractive is demographics, specifically the aging of the baby boom generation. That has certainly […]

News Release: EBRI Research Finds Millennials Bring Online Consumer Behaviors to Health Care Interactions

News Release: EBRI Research Finds Millennials Bring Online Consumer Behaviors to Health Care Interactions

News from EBRI 1100 13th St. NW  Suite 878  Washington, DC 20005 (202) 659-0670  www.ebri.org  Fax: (202) 775-6312 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 22, 2018 CONTACT: Paul Fronstin, EBRI (author), fronstin@ebri.org, (202) 775-6352 EBRI Research Finds Millennials Bring Online Consumer Behaviors to Health Care Interactions New research by the Employee Benefit Research Institute […]

Editor’s Letter: We’re all ears

We’d love to hear about your latest deals Dear Reader: I know I’ve said this many times before in the pages of Healthcare Real Estate Insights™, but I’ll day it again: send us your news.

Sears Holdings Corp. is the most vulnerable public retail company, according to a recent analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence. (Photo by Andriy Blokhin, Shutterstock)

Industry Pulse: Opportunities are increasing for retail repurposing

Almost 3,600 retail stores are slated to close this year, including hundreds of big boxes and department stores In the aftermath of the Great Recession, it became a common strategy for healthcare providers and healthcare real estate (HRE) firms to repurpose the buildings of failed big box and department stores. The bankruptcies of Circuit City, […]

Many urgent care centers are expanding into more complex services, such as physical therapy and concussion screening. (Photo courtesy of Sarasota Memorial Healthcare System)

Industry Pulse: Urgent care centers are still important, growing

The number of centers and patient volumes are increasing while wait times are declining. For those involved in the development and ownership of healthcare real estate (HRE), it looks as if owning a standalone urgent care center (UCC) building or having a UCC in your medical office building (MOB) continues to be a good bet, […]

Industry Pulse: Docs feeling the stress of today’s environment

Industry Pulse: Docs feeling the stress of today’s environment

U.S. physicians are struggling with morale, adapting to new models and access to care. While it might be a lucrative profession, being a doctor isn’t all that easy or stress-free these days, according to the people who would know best: doctors themselves. According to the 2016 Survey of America’s Physicians by Dallas-based Merritt Hawkins, a physician […]

Industry Pulse: Interest rate increases not seen as likely to have a big impact on HRE

Industry Pulse: Interest rate increases not seen as likely to have a big impact on HRE

Healthcare real estate sources say that slightly higher capital costs will probably do little to cool the market The Federal Reserve began cutting interest rates in September 2007 in growing recognition of the magnitude of the financial crisis. Rates were gradually reduced to historically low levels. The federal funds rate hit an unprecedented 0.25 percent […]

NorthStar obtained this Carson City, Nev., MOB as part of its $4 billion acquisition of Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II in 2014. (Photo courtesy of LoopNet.com)

Industry Pulse: NorthStar said to be near almost $1 billion MOB deal

Large foreign investor said to be interested in the firm’s massive medical office portfolio Healthcare real estate (HRE) sector sources say that a portfolio with nearly $1 billion worth of medical office buildings (MOBs) is for sale. The MOBs are being offered by New York-based NorthStar Realty Finance (NYSE: NRF), which is in the process […]

Industry Pulse: MOB deliveries on pace to rise by 37% this year

Industry Pulse: MOB deliveries on pace to rise by 37% this year

A ‘growing shortage” of MOBs has stimulated ‘a wave of development,’ according to CoStar Last month, in the article “Construction starts might decline this year,” we reported that the building research firm Dodge Data & Analytics, estimated that healthcare construction starts would decline by 4.5 percent in square footage and 2.9 percent in value this […]