REIT Report: CCP remains active buying, selling
SNF-focused Ventas spin-off buys behavioral health portfolio as part of strategy By John B. Mugford When Chicago-based Care Capital Properties Inc. (NYSE: CCP) closed on a recent $400 million acquisition of six behavioral health facilities in California, Arizona and Illinois, the real estate investment trust (REIT) revealed something about its strategy moving forward as well […]
News Release: Sabra Health Care and Care Capital Properties to Combine in $7.4 Billion Transaction
Sabra Health Care and Care Capital Properties to Combine in $7.4 Billion Transaction to Create a Premier Healthcare REIT May 07, 2017 21:15 ET | Source: Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc. Combined company to have a diversified portfolio of 564 investments across 43 states and Canada Transaction expected to be immediately accretive Credit enhancing to all stakeholders IRVINE, Calif. […]
REIT Report: HR Trust picks up investment pace
In Q4 earnings call, company officials tell analysts they expect similar results in 2017 By John B. Mugford Nashville, Tenn.-based Healthcare Realty Trust (NYSE: HR) is not necessarily known for opening up its checkbook and making huge acquisitions, although the publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) has gradually accumulated a $3.5 billion portfolio with […]
REIT Report: G-A REITs still making acquisitions
REIT III made $509.5 million of acquisitions in 2016; REIT IV has invested $139 million By John B. Mugford Amid what can be described as a slowdown in both capital raising and acquisitions for the country’s non-traded, healthcare-focused real estate investment trusts (REITs), two REITs co-sponsored by American Healthcare Investors LLC (AHI) and Griffin Capital […]
REIT Report: Second biggest buyer in 2016: HTA
REIT’s acquisitions topped $700 million, its biggest year since going public By John B. Mugford Most long-term holders of medical office buildings (MOBs) have been cautious when making recent acquisitions, as high demand from new investors has driven prices to all-time highs.
News Release: Global Medical REIT Inc. Provides Acquisition Update
Press Release Company Release – 2/1/2017 8:30 AM ET Company Announces Two Completed Acquisitions and Five Executed Purchase Contracts for an Aggregate of $103.5 million BETHESDA, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Global Medical REIT Inc. (NYSE:GMRE) (the “Company” or “GMR”), a Maryland corporation engaged primarily in the acquisition of licensed, state-of-the-art, purpose-built healthcare facilities and the leasing of these facilities […]
REIT Report: Big year, big retirement at DocREIT
Acquisitions totaled $1.28 billion last year and founder John Sweet retired By John B. Mugford Prior to the start of 2016, executives with Milwaukee-based Physicians Realty Trust (NYSE: DOC) set its acquisitions guidance at $750 million to $1 billion for the year.
REIT Report: HR Trust glad to be on campus
By John B. Mugford As far as many healthcare real estate (HRE) investors are concerned, off-campus medical office buildings (MOBs) have become nearly as attractive, or in some cases just as attractive, as on-campus outpatient facilities.
REIT Report: MPT making big deal with Steward
Publicly traded REIT to buy nine hospitals from for-profit system for $1.2 billion By John B. Mugford If all goes according to plan, Boston-based Steward Health Care System LLC, which has been focused on eastern Massachusetts, can start expanding its “community-based care” model to a national platform.
News Release: 378 healthcare REIT properties threatened by Hurricane Matthew
More than 10,000 REIT-owned properties lie in the wider path of Hurricane Matthew, with the bulk comprising homes owned by single-family REITs. The now-Category 3 hurricane approached Florida’s east coast early Friday morning and began moving north just offshore, with reported wind gusts around 100 miles per hour. Current projections show the storm heading up […]
News Release: Investors Real Estate Trust Announces Planned Dispositions of Senior Housing Properties for $236.0 Million
Expected Closings in Calendar 2017 Would Complete Exit from Senior Housing Portfolio- MINOT, N.D., Aug. 31, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Investors Real Estate Trust (NYSE: IRET) (NYSE: IRETPR) (NYSE: IRETPRB) (the “Company”), a real estate investment trust focusing on the acquisition, development, redevelopment and management of multifamily communities located primarily in select growth markets throughout the Midwest, […]
REIT Report: Healthcare REITs: Not just in the U.S.
Japan offers investment option through Nippon Healthcare Investment Corp. By Murray W. Wolf Americans can sometimes get so wrapped up in what’s happening in our own country that we don’t pay much attention to what’s going in the rest of the world.
REIT Report: HCP plans HCR ManorCare spin-off
Troubled skilled nursing facilities portfolio to become a standalone company By Murray W. Wolf In August 2015, healthcare real estate investment trust (REIT) Ventas Inc. (NYSE: VTR) announced completion of the spin-off of its skilled nursing facility (SNF) portfolio into a publicly traded independent REIT called Care Capital Properties Inc. (NYSE: CCP). Now another healthcare […]
REIT Report: HTA finding deals so far in 2016
Increased investment activity follows a slight slowdown in investments in 2015 By John B. Mugford At a time when the country’s publicly traded, healthcare-focused real estate investment trusts (REITs) are supposedly being a bit more cautious about making medical office building (MOB) acquisitions, Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Healthcare Trust of America Inc. (NYSE: HTA) recently found a […]
REIT Report: A sigh of relief for unlisted REITs
But the Dept. of Labor ruling calls for more transparency concerning costs, fees By John B. Mugford Opinions among healthcare real estate (HRE) professionals differ on whether the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) final version of its new fiduciary rule concerning retirement accounts will have a positive or a negative effect on the non-traded real […]