Transactions: Marcus & Millichap brokers $9 million sale of Los Angeles MOB to undisclosed buyer
LOS ANGELES – An unnamed private investor recently acquired a three-story, 42,729 square foot MOB in the Granada Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles for $9 million, or $211 PSF. Representing the seller, Los Angeles-based Jamison Services Inc., was John R. Smelter, a senior director of Marcus & Millichap’s National Healthcare Real Estate Group from the […]
Transactions: MedSouth Healthcare Properties LLC acquires Myrtle Beach, S.C., MOB
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – MedSouth Healthcare Properties LLC, a relatively new company focused on acquiring healthcare properties in the Southeast, recently purchased an MOB in Myrtle Beach in a JV with Sterling Fox Group LLC. Both MedSouth and Sterling Fox Group are based in Charlotte, N.C. The JV acquired Market Commons Medical, a 20,000 square […]
Transactions: New publicly traded REIT, Physicians Realty Trust, continues making deals
MILWAUKEE – Physicians Realty Trust (NYSE: DOC), which raised about $123.8 million in an initial public offering (IPO) that closed in July, has made a number of significant acquisitions in recent months. According to new releases as well as data from Real Capital Analytics, the new healthcare REIT has made three separate purchases since September, […]
Transactions: Sabra REIT moves into acute-care space with Texas deals
DALLAS – For the most part, Irvine, Calif.-based Sabra Health Care REIT Inc. (Nasdaq: SBRA) looks to grow its portfolio primarily through the acquisition of senior housing and memory care facilities, with a secondary focus on skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). However, it also continues to search for “opportunistic” acquisitions of other types of healthcare real […]
Transactions: San Diego medical office sells for $11.4 million to TDA Investment
SAN DIEGO – TDA Investment Group of San Mateo, Calif., in recent months acquired an MOB located within a complex of three medical buildings across the street from Alvarado Hospital Medical Center in San Diego. The firm closed on Alvarado Medical Plaza III, a three-story, 51,441 square foot MOB, for about $11.4 million, according to […]
Transactions: G-A REIT II hits it big in December
Unlisted REIT invests more than $541 million on HRE only a single month By John B. Mugford A year ago, with an increase in capital gains taxes looming for anxious sellers, a flurry of medical office building (MOB) deals closed out 2012 and made it a record-setting year for total sales volume (dollar amount). […]
Companies & People: A big year for JLL’s healthcare group
As 2013 came to a close, Healthcare Capital Markets leader recapped the year By John B. Mugford It might be an understatement to say that the national Healthcare Capital Markets Group of Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE: JLL) had a good 2013. As Mindy Berman, the managing director who heads the group, notes, “We had […]
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 […]
Transactions: Medical office sales soared 73% in Q3
Quarterly volume was more than $2 billion – the second biggest quarter ever By John Mugford Healthcare real estate (HRE) sales professionals had been predicting a big third quarter (Q3) of 2013 after two somewhat uneventful quarters to start out the year. Were they ever right, as Q3 sales shot up 73 percent over Q2. […]
Industry Pulse: ARC grabs big portfolio from LaSalle for $171m
JLL-affiliated firms have disposed of more than $366M in HRE properties since July In September, New York-based ARC Healthcare Trust, currently one of the most active buyers of healthcare real estate (HRE), landed the largest deal of the third quarter (Q3). ARC paid
News Release: MedSouth Healthcare Properties, LLC (MedSouth) and Sterling Fox Group, LLC are pleased to announce a joint venture acquisition of a Class A multi tenant medical office building located in Myrtle Beach South Carolina.
The property is located adjacent to Market Common, a Class A 114-acre, lifestyle center located near the Myrtle Beach International Airport. Market Common, opened in 2008, has over 370,000 square feet of shops, nearly 24,000 square feet of offices and 195 residential units. The acquisition is comprised of an approximately 20,000 SF, two story medical […]
News Release: Pomfret Estates purchases Pleasanton medical building for $6.55 million
Transwestern Brokers Sale on Behalf of Buyer and Secures Leasing Assignment (NOVEMBER 7, 2013 – PLEASANTON, CALIF.) – Transwestern today announced it brokered the sale of a medical services building at 5000 Pleasanton Ave., in Pleasanton, Calif. Bernal Associates, based in Pleasanton, sold the property to Pomfret Estates Inc., for $6,550,000. Transwestern Managing Director Ed […]
Transactions: Relationships drove Dignity deal
NexCore-Heitman JV foresees opportunities as part of $114M MOB portfolio buy By John B. Mugford As reported in the September edition of Healthcare Real Estate Insights™ , NexCore Group LLC agreed Aug. 30 to acquire the 13 buildings being offered for sale by Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) Income Property Trust Inc. as part of the […]
Transactions: Healthcare Realty Trust buys 91,000 s.f. MOB near major hospital in Gastonia, N.C.
GASTONIA, N.C. – Large, publicly traded REITs often look to buy properties in large bunches, as individual buildings typically don’t “move the needle” enough for them. However, they do often show interest in single properties put on the market if they have other buildings in the area, which allows them to achieve economies of scale […]








