Cover Story: Demand to continue well into 2015
While healthcare real estate executives have a few concerns, most seem to agree that the HRE sector continues to look strong By John B. Mugford The year 2014 in healthcare real estate (HRE) is likely to go down as the best in history, the culmination of a three-year run in which the annual volume for […]
Cover Story: Non-traded healthcare REITs seek deals amid flood of capital
By Murray W. Wolf Probable interest rate increases, new competition, historically high asset pricing and a potential lack of accretive acquisition opportunities are some of the concerns facing executives at the country’s non-traded healthcare real estate investment trusts (REITs). That’s according to “Placing Capital: The Role of Non-traded REITS in the Market,” a panel discussion […]
Cover Story: Hail to the REITs
Public HRE trusts control growing share of $1 billion market By John B. Mugford In the $1 trillion universe that is healthcare real estate, real estate investment trusts (REITs) certainly compete with each other when it comes to acquiring desirable properties, gaining name recognition and attracting investors. But it also looks as if the two […]
Cover Story: Black Friday for healthcare? How retail clinics are influencing real estate strategies
By Murray W. Wolf CVS is aggressively opening new MinuteClinics nationwide. Walgreens Healthcare Clinics have moved beyond low-level primary care into disease management. Target recently announced a retail clinic partnership with Kaiser Permanente – Kaiser’s first. And Walmart just opened several new retail clinics with an “everyday low price” of $40 per visit – or […]
Cover Story: Who are the largest owners of healthcare real estate?
Revista has compiled a list of the top 50, and the answers might surprise you By John B. Mugford Who are the largest individual owners of healthcare real estate (HRE) assets in the United States? As you pondered the question, the first organizations that popped into your mind might have been the largest publicly traded […]
Cover Story: ARC II lands big deal from Pa. system
Non-traded REIT paying $174.1 million for eight-building PinnacleHealth portfolio By John B. Mugford As health systems continue to face financial pressures and myriad other demands in the era of healthcare reform, many real estate professionals expect at least some of them to tap the capital locked into their property holdings. It’s not that the leading […]
Cover Story: New York state of mind
How Big Apple-based providers see the healthcare real estate market – and what that might mean for the rest of us By John B. Mugford Needless to say, any doctor who has been involved in providing medical care for a number of decades has watched the business get turned on its head in recent years. […]
Cover Story: Development on the mend
Rising demand for outpatient space is fueling the rebound By John B. Mugford As Philip J. “PJ” Camp puts it, healthcare development “fell off a cliff” back in 2009. That cliff, as it’s turned out, has been quite difficult to re-climb, as the number of annual healthcare real estate (HRE) projects has remained relatively flat […]
Cover Story: Hungry for growth: Healthcare REITs are gobbling up their competitors
Public REITs are gobbling up healthcare real estate – and each other – as they angle to grow their portfolios. Ventas is poised to shore up its position as the biggest fish in the HRE pond, but other REITs are also casting about for ways to move up the food chain. By John B. Mugford […]
Cover Story: Should systems monetize hospitals?
Selling MOBs is common, BOMA panel notes, but what about inpatient buildings? By John B. Mugford In healthcare real estate (HRE), there’s an untapped gold mine of properties awaiting investors who can figure out how to obtain them: acute care hospitals. Therein lies the difficulty, however, as the holders of more than 85 percent of […]
Cover Story: Forecasting the future
Industry experts discuss the outlook for the healthcare real estate sector By John Mugford To say that healthcare real estate has come a long way in recent years would be a bit of an understatement. All one has to do to illustrate such a point is to peruse the list of sector investor types – […]
Cover Story: When is a hospital not a hospital?
Perhaps when it’s a ‘re-admit facility’ designed to avoid readmission penalties As health systems prepare further for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), they must figure out ways to avoid certain potential penalties assessed for excessive readmissions to their hospitals. One member of the audience at InterFace Healthcare Real West 2014 asked a […]
Cover Story: Looming over the real estate landscape: Health system executives discuss the ongoing effects of the PPACA on the HRE sector
Health system executives discuss the ongoing effects of the PPACA on the HRE sector By John Mugford As if providers aren’t facing enough pressures with the changing of the whole delivery model paradigm, healthcare reform has thrown even more complications at them. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which was enacted into law […]
Cover Story: A look ahead
Some of the HRE sector’s leading professionals weigh in on the year to come By John B. Mugford The first part of 2014 brings with it myriad questions regarding the nation’s healthcare industry. Subsequently, that also means that questions abound concerning healthcare real estate (HRE), even though our unscientific poll finds that most professionals involved […]
Cover Story: Development: More activity, but who will own the MOBs?
By John B. Mugford The number of newly developed MOBs has held steady in recent years, with about 7 million to 8 million square feet completed in 2012 and 2103, according to a number of sources. But even though most HRE professionals do not believe that the enrollment of newly insured patients under the PPACA […]
