Editor’s Letter: The talk of the town
MARKET FOCUSES DIG INTO DETAILS, TRENDS By John B. Mugford. Dear Reader: This edition of Healthcare Real Estate Insights™ includes one of our most popular features, a Market Focus section on a particular major metropolitan area of the country. These highly detailed, labor-intensive projects have long been rated highly by our readers (when we have […]
Editor’s Letter: MOBs: Still attractive?
SOME DON’T THINK SO. WHAT’S YOUR OPINION? By John B. Mugford Dear Reader: There have been several occasions when I’ve asked readers to pick up the phone and give me a call about what they’re seeing in the healthcare real estate sector. Typically, I will hear from a few readers. But, hey, I know most […]
Editor’s Letter: Another good survey
CBRE’S NEW REPORT PROVIDES USEFUL DATA By John B. Mugford Dear Reader: Plenty of very informative and educational materials concerning our sector, healthcare real estate, come across our desks here at Healthcare Real Estate Insights™. Included are a growing number of surveys that track how professionals and organizations in the business are feeling about the […]
Editor’s Letter: That’s news to me
TELL US KNOW ABOUT YOUR LATEST PROJECTS By John B. Mugford Dear Reader: I know I’ve done this before, but here I am again asking for your help in getting as much news as possible into our publication. The news we’re looking for and will publish in Healthcare Real Estate Insights™ has to do with […]
Editor’s Letter: Is extravagance gone?
NEW HOSPITAL STILL PROUD TO BE ‘HOTEL-LIKE’ By John B. Mugford. Dear Reader: A handful of years ago, during the heyday of healthcare real estate development and before the Great Recession, there was an arms race of sorts among health systems looking to get a leg up on the competition. There was plenty of talk, […]
Editor’s Letter: Hungry for good news?
HOLIDAY TREATS PORTEND A SUCCESSFUL 2012 By John B. Mugford Dear Reader: Like almost everyone reading this publication, we tend to keep both eyes focused on healthcare real estate and our peripheral vision glancing on the leading U.S. economic indicators. After all, even though healthcare real estate is often dubbed “recession-resistant,” the economy certainly has […]
Editor’s Letter: We have news aplenty
TRICK IS TO GET IT ALL INTO THE NEWSLETTER John B. Mugford Dear Reader: I’m sitting here at my desk in the beautiful Minneapolis suburb of Minnetonka, Minn., occasionally looking out the window upon a beautiful summer day of sunny skies and temperatures in the 80s. We just wrapped up this edition of Healthcare Real […]
Editor’s Letter: ‘On air’ brought panic
RADIO SHOW EXPLORES MEDICAL REAL ESTATE By, John B. Mugford Dear Reader: I’ve got to admit, I was feeling pretty comfortable as I settled in as a guest on the “Commercial Real Estate Show” on Business Radio 1190. The episode that I was part of was recently recorded in Atlanta and called “Healthcare Real Estate […]
Editor’s Letter: Panelist can entertain
SOME SPEAKERS ADD HUMOR TO CONFERENCES By, John Mugford Dear Reader: Every time I attend a healthcare real estate conference – quite often to moderate one of the panel discussions – I am impressed with how educational, informative, important and timely these events have become for people involved in this sector. Did I mention that […]
Editor’s Letter: Glad we’re ‘healthcare’
THERE’S MUCH MORE TO THIS SECTOR THAN MOBs By John B. Mugford. Dear Reader: When we launched Healthcare Real Estate Insights™ in January 2003, we deliberately used “healthcare” in our publication title rather than a more specific term like “medical office” to reflect that the scope of our coverage would include a broad range of […]
Editor’s Letter: REITs certainly rule
HREI™ EDITORIAL BOARD PREDICTED AS MUCH By John B. Mugford (Editor) Dear Reader: A couple of years ago, as the country was mired in recession and the commercial real estate market was in the tank, the members of the Editorial Advisory Board of our publication, Healthcare Real Estate Insights™, gathered for our annual meeting to […]
Editor’s Letter: I’ll be out of the office…
HCRE CONFERENCE SEASON IS IN FULL SWING By John B. Mugford (Editor) Dear Reader: For folks involved in healthcare real estate, ‘tis the season. No, not that season. The season I’m talking about is the season of conferences and seminars concerning medical office buildings (MOBs) and other healthcare properties. Consequently, we at Healthcare Real Estate […]
Editor’s Letter: Not sure there’s space…
BUT WE HAVE ADDED ANOTHER NEWS SECTION By John B. Mugford Dear Reader: As noted in the headline above, I’m not sure that we have room for any more material – let alone a whole new section of news – in Healthcare Real Estate Insights™. But damn the torpedoes, we’re adding a new section anyway. […]
Editor’s Letter: Window on the market
BEEFY TRANSACTIONS SECTION IS A GOOD SIGN By John B. Mugford Dear Reader: I hope you get a chance to check out our “Transactions” section in this edition of Healthcare Real Estate Insights™. I really feel that the items listed in that section provide a small window into what’s taking place in the medical office […]
Editor’s Letter: An even closer look
LESS NEWS MEANS MORE IN-DEPTH COVERAGE John B. Mugford Dear Reader: For the past several years, the amount news briefs we’ve included in the pages of Healthcare Real Estate Insights™ has been so great that at times it was difficult to print them all. These news items included medical office building (MOB) transactions, outpatient and […]