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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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!
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 […]