On the Record: Why is there growing demand for outpatient medical facilities?
“As healthcare systems focus on their clinical and operational strategy, they are challenged with how to use and leverage real estate to be more effective… Healthcare systems are shifting care to the lowest-cost setting. This is generating greater demand for clinical space in outpatient and retail settings. These trends are already affecting real estate strategy […]
Editor’s Letter: Disruptive innovation
Is the healthcare industry facing ‘a Kodak moment?’ Dear Reader: In ancient times, when I was in graduate business school (1989-91, if you must know), I took an excellent class called “The Management of Innovation.” Among other things, we learned how certain products once held seemingly unassailable market positions, only to be eliminated almost overnight […]
Editor’s Letter: When will it all end?
Healthcare real estate is hot! Where is the horizon? Dear Reader: Spoiler alert: In our next few editions, we will be writing about how hot the healthcare real estate (HRE) market is. And with good reason. It seems a perfect storm has created this deluge of both sales and development activity: the economy, while still […]

Don’t Miss Out! Orders are Now Being Accepted for Advertising and Listings in the 2015 HREI Resource Guide
Reach 7,500+ Hospital and Health System Real Estate Decision Makers with the 2015 HREI Resource Guide™ Since 2008, hospital and healthcare executives have turned to the HREI Resource Guide™ when they have needed healthcare real estate services. Don’t miss this once-a-year opportunity to keep your firm top of mind with these qualified prospects both in […]
Hurry! The deadline is Oct. 17 to enter the 2014 HREI Insights Awards!
The deadline to enter the 2014 HREI Insights Awards is Friday, Oct. 17! About the HREI Insights Awards™ The HREI Insights Awards™ were established by Healthcare Real Estate Insights™ magazine in 2013 to recognize excellence in healthcare real estate. The HREI Insights Awards are the only awards totally dedicated to the healthcare real estate sector. […]
Editor’s Letter: Swish! MOBs are hot
High prices are compelling owners to cash in Dear Reader: When a basketball player has a fantastic game, scoring plenty of points, grabbing bunches of rebounds and dishing out myriad assists, he or she is said to have “filled up the stat sheet.” In the second half of 2014, it’s the healthcare real estate (HRE) […]

Entries now open for second annual HREI Insights Awards
Healthcare Real Estate Insights™ magazine announces the second annual awards program recognizing excellence in healthcare real estate. Entries are due Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. About the HREI Insights Awards™ The HREI Insights Awards™ were established by Healthcare Real Estate Insights™ magazine in 2013 to recognize excellence in healthcare real estate. The HREI Insights Awards are […]
Thought Leaders: Medical Office Market Report Available
1st Quarter Medical Office Market Report Colliers International | Minneapolis-St. Paul is pleased to present our Twin Cities Medical Office Market Report for the first quarter of 2014. Strong construction activity as merging health care groups prepare for increasing patient population and streamlining of patient care Now Available Download Q1 Medical Office Market Report View […]
Editor’s Letter: VA mess: A bad sign?
Failures of federally run healthcare raise concerns Dear Reader: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was designed to accomplish a whole host of things, perhaps most importantly to provide a way for uninsured Americans to receive affordable health insurance. As many as 30 million people are expected to receive coverage in coming years […]
Thought Leaders: First Quarter Medical Office Building Report
Large For-Profit Investors Look to Take Advantage of Favorable Selling Environment Following a record setting year in which medical office buildings set a new high for annual transaction volume at over $6.4 billion, the industry returned to a healthy start to 2014 with nearly $1 billion in reported volume. The market without question remains frothy […]

Industry Pulse: New entrants will disrupt healthcare
$2.8 trillion That’s the size of the U.S. healthcare system, and the potential of the “New Health Economy” will be even greater, says a new report from the consulting company PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (pwc). That’s the good news. The not so good news – at least for some current hospitals and physicians – is
Thought Leaders: EnTrust on Entrepreneurial Tenants
REAL ESTATE’S NEXT DRIVER? Read Jud Henry’s Article Minority-owned and women-owned businesses are the fastest growing segment of our economy expanding at more than four times the national rate but has the real estate industry kept up with the pace of their growth? Are tenant representation firms able to deal with the unique ambitions and […]

Publisher’s Letter: Healthcare reform + 5
Musings on a half-decade of living with the PPACA Dear Reader: As I write these words, it is almost four years to the day since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was signed into law: March 23, 2010. If you factor in about one year of Congressional debate prior to the passage of […]
Thought Leaders: The Alter Group on Branding Real Estate
BRANDING COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Read Richard Gatto’s New Article With Forbes about to launch the first global line of branded office towers, it’s clear that branding isn’t just for breakfast cereals and fast cars any more. But how do you brand commercial buildings or even a portfolio so it commands a premium in the market? […]
Thought Leaders: Cushman & Wakefield Report Suggests New Rules and Significant Changes for Healthcare Real Estate
WASHINGTON, D.C. – March. 6, 2014 – The healthcare industry will see significant changes in 2014 in how consumers seek health services, according to a white paper by Cushman & Wakefield’s Healthcare Practice Group. Recently enacted reforms, including health exchanges and a more at-risk consumer, are causing many changes in the industry, including where healthcare […]