2015 HREI Insights Awards Finalists Announced
“Until two years ago, there was no comprehensive national awards program focusing on the real estate stories and strategies behind successful projects,” explains HREI Publisher Murray W. Wolf. “As the …
Archives for 2015
3 Things You Should Know About Revista
1. We specialize in healthcare real estate Focusing on healthcare real estate allows us to provide specialized information that is crucial to making smart investment decisions. We are the first …
A Quick Analysis of Major vs. Minor Markets
Revista’s mid-year construction report is about to come out, and ahead of its release, I’d like to dig into some of the stats. I’ve received a number of questions about …
Beverly Hills medical office buildings sell for over $1,000 per foot
G&L Realty recently sold a portfolio of 8 medical office buildings to a partnership between Health Care REIT (NYSE: HCN) and the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP). The partnership, …
Breaking Ground in Medical Real Estate
Below are recent medical office projects that have broken ground. Olympic Medical Center has broken ground on a new 42,000 square foot medical office building on its campus in Port …
California is #1 in the Nation in Hospital Construction!
Revista recently held a webcast on the California medical real estate market and revealed that the Golden state is the far and away leader in hospital construction across the nation. As of …
CS Capital Invests in Boston Post-Acute Real Estate
CS Capital on behalf of the Alaska Permanent Fund has recently acquired two Boston area acute rehabilitation hospitals. Both the Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital in Braintree, MA and the New England …
Do Medical Real Estate Prices have Room to Run?
We recently wrote about the fact that Medical Office prices are trending near all time highs. Given this fact as well as the sentiment that most economists believe interest rates …
Excitement for Dr. Sam Chandan’s Keynote
I was so excited to hear that Dr. Sam Chandan would be presenting again at the Revista national conference. I would rate Dr. Chandan’s presentation last year as the best …
Fitch Ratings Issues Presale Report for Griffin American Healthcare REIT Commercial Mortgage Trust
Fitch Ratings recently released a presale report for the GAHR Commercial Mortgage Trust 2015. This is a CMBS issue of approximately $1.8 Billion to be used to fund the acquisition …
Five Mega Projects Opening This Spring
Five construction projects scheduled to be completed this spring represent nearly $1.3 billion dollars and more than 1.6 million square feet. All five of the projects are hospitals; three of the five are …
HCP buys 11 on campus MOBs from Memorial Hermann Health System
HCP, Inc. (NYSE: HCP), disclosed with the reporting of second quarter, 2015 earnings that it had purchased a portfolio of 11 on campus medical office buildings from Memorial Hermann Health …
Healthcare Trust of America, Inc. Increases Third Quarter Dividend
SCOTTSDALE, AZ, August 13, 2015 – Healthcare Trust of America, Inc. (NYSE: HTA) announced today that its board of directors has declared a cash dividend for the quarter ending September …
Hospital Real Estate Prices Are Going Up!
The hospital real estate sector has been gaining favor with investors in 2015. We have seen two high profile deals – the $1.75B Ventas/Ardent deal and the $900M Medical Properties …
Hospital Real Estate Transaction Volume has Picked Up
For the first time since Revista began tracking medical real estate transaction volume in 2014, hospital real estate transaction volume is outpacing medical office volume. Thus far, in the 3rd …
Hospital Real Estate Yields Compress Through the First Half of 2015
Revista has recently released mid-year 2015 transactions reports. A national report is available for purchase while subscribers have additional access to the top 50 metros report. Each report is roughly …
HTA Sets the Pace in 2Q
Healthcare Trust of America (NYSE: HTA) recently announced it had closed on over $190 million worth of acquisitions in the second quarter of 2015. The acquisitions were in the REIT’s …
ICD-10: One Week Out
The below blog can be accessed at http://blog.cms.gov/2015/09/24/icd-10-one-week-out/. September 24 By Dr. Bill Rogers, ICD-10 Ombudsman In one week, the U.S. health care system will start using the International Classification …
Investor Appetites for Medical Real Estate Trending at High Levels
Anyone involved in medical real estate in the past few years has felt the trends. Generally, we have seen rising volumes, cap rate compression and rising prices in the form …
Is Private Equity Becoming More Competitive?
Coming out of the great recession, Health Care REITs have generally enjoyed a cost of capital advantage over other forms of capital. This has played out in the Revista transaction …
Medical Construction is in Every State
Did you know that Revista tracks medical real estate construction? Yes, it does track both Hospital and Medical Office construction across the United States. We finished the initial count of …
Medical Properties Trust to Buy Capella Healthcare
Medical Properties Trust (NYSE: MPW) has recently announced they were acquiring the real estate of seven hospitals as well as an interest in the operations of Capella Healthcare in a …
MOB in Oakdale, CA Trades Hands
A 51,000 square foot medical office building in Oakdale, California traded hands in late July. The Oakdale Medical Plaza was developed in 2007 by GL Bruno in association with Oak …
MOB Prices Trending Near All Time Highs…
If you feel like medical office pricing is about as high as it can go, you would have a point these days. The current 2nd quarter average price per square …