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Cover Story: Looming over the real estate landscape: Health system executives discuss the ongoing effects of the PPACA on the HRE sector

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

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 […]

Cover Story: MOB sales: What’s next after a record-setting 2013?

By John B. Mugford As most people involved in the sector know by now, 2013 was a record year for medical office building (MOB) sales. Data from Real Capital Analytics Inc., a real estate research firm, indicate that more than $6.5 million worth of MOBs traded hands in 2013, a total that includes only transaction […]

The reception area of 95 Crystal Run Road in Middletown, N.Y., which was part of the $141 million Crystal Run MOB portfolio. (Photo courtesy of Raymond James)

Cover Story: Buyer gets a warm reception

Physician group welcomes $141 million sale-leaseback By John B. Mugford Medical group tenant was big driver in six-building MOB portfolio deal     Since its founding 17 years ago, a physicians’ group in the mid-Hudson Valley area of New York has built itself into one of the leading independent, multi-specialty physician practices in the United States. […]

The reception area of 95 Crystal Run Road in Middletown, N.Y., which was part of the $141 million Crystal Run MOB portfolio. Photo courtesy of Raymond James

Cover Story: Medical group tenant was big driver in six-building MOB portfolio deal

Since its founding 17 years ago, a physicians’ group in the mid-Hudson Valley area of New York has built itself into one of the leading independent, multi-specialty physician practices in the United States. “As (one healthcare real estate consultant) always tells me, a provider’s market share in its respective area is the key to its […]

Large multi-specialty facilities like this four-story, 280,000 square foot VA Healthcare Center being developed by Lend Lease in Kernersville, N.C., represent one approach to off-campus outpatient real estate development strategy. But providers and developers are also exploring a range of other options. (Rendering courtesy of Lend Lease)

Cover Story: The off-campus era

How it’s revolutionizing healthcare real estate By Murray W. Wolf For the benefit of the handful of readers who might be new to the healthcare real estate (HRE) sector – and with sincere apologies to those for whom this is painfully obvious – we must premise this article by stating that more and more healthcare […]

Cover Story: Seeking direction

Cover Story: Seeking direction

How HRE developers are responding to change By John B. Mugford Industry experts discuss the ‘new’ state of the healthcare real estate market If chaos is an appropriate way to describe the state of today’s healthcare sector, then uncertainty, with plenty of chances for good opportunities, might best convey what’s facing those involved in healthcare […]

The per square foot price recently paid for this Santa Monica,
Calif., outpatient center reportedly set a new record for MOBs. (Photo courtesy of Montecito Medical Investment Co.)

Cover Story: A grand bargain in L.A.

MOB sale shatters $1,000 per square foot barrier By John B. Mugford The buyer, Montecito Medical Investment Co., says the MOB merits the lofty price.  John B. Mugford The average price per square foot (PSF) that MOB investors have paid so far in 2013 is right around $208 – that’s for transactions of more than […]

Cover Story Sidebar: A quick look at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus

The healthcare district has made quite a turnaround and revitalized a portion of the city These days, the bustling 120-acre Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC) just outside of downtown Buffalo, N.Y., is a fine example of how healthcare can revitalize a community and, for that matter, a city. According to some local reports, the area […]

Aurora Health Care is the master lessee of a $20.4 million, three-story, 60,800 square foot MOB/ASC in Wauwatosa, Wis., which was developed and is owned by Mayfair Medical Properties LLC, a joint venture of a local developer and a physician group. (Photo courtesy of VJS Construction Services and Aerialscapes Inc.)

Cover Story: Is it wise to monetize MOBs?

At BOMA, health system executives outlined why their answer is ‘yes’

Cover Story: Hit the road with HREI!

Cover Story: Hit the road with HREI!

We unpack highlights from healthcare real estate conferences across the USA When we began publishing Healthcare Real Estate InsightsTM more than a decade ago, there was only one established medical office buildings (MOB) conference and that event was relatively small. The 2003 BOMA MOB Conference piggybacked on the national BOMA convention and attracted about 150 […]

Cover Story: Ready or not, here it comes

Change, that is. System executives discuss how to prepare. Destination: InterFace Healthcare Real Estate West, Los Angeles By John B. Mugford Ah, the comfort of the status quo. For the people and companies involved in healthcare real estate, the next year or so is supposed to be, according to some high-level observers, a lot like […]

Cover Story: Sector is stronger than it looks

The market is quietly rebounding – and opportunities abound  Destination: MREJ Healthcare Conference, Minneapolis By John B. Mugford The healthcare real estate (HRE) sector has quietly rebounded during the past three years and plenty of development and investment opportunities remain. That seemed to be the consensus of the presenters and panelists who appeared at the […]

Cover Story: Ideas for thriving on chaos

Industry experts tell Chicago audience to reposition for growth  Destination: IREJ Healthcare Conference, Chicago By John B. Mugford Editor’s Note: This is an expanded version of the article that appeared in the print edition of Healthcare Real Estate Insights Like the U.S. economy, the healthcare real estate (HRE) sector has experienced a precarious and excruciatingly […]