2 Large Speculative Projects Rising in the Baltimore MSA
If you have seen Revista’s metro trends you may have noticed the Baltimore MOB market is one of the tightest in the country. The MOB occupancy rate has averaged between …
Archives for 2019
2018 HREI/Revista Outpatient Development Survey Now Open through 2/15!
The 2018 HREI/Revista Outpatient Development Survey is now open! Click here to take the survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6C97JF8 Deadline is 2/15/2019 so please fill out today! Healthcare Real Estate Insights and Revista have …
2018 Medical Office Sales Remain at High Level Total – Medical Office Investment Sales
Medical office sales in 2018 remained vibrant as cyclical real estate investment trends drove investor interest to stable income-producing properties such as healthcare with strong and long-dated tenancy. 2018 activity reinforced …
2019 Continues with Flurry of Hospital Deliveries
While MOB transaction activity might have cooled somewhat and MOB construction remains steady, deliveries of hospital projects have been on a spike. Based on projects that have either opened or …
A Value-add, Repurposing MOB Project with Plenty of Entitlement Risk Looks to be Paying off for Longtime Sector Investor Seavest
SAN FRANCISCO– Every medical office building (MOB) development project comes with some risk. But for the first time in its history, White Plains, N.Y.-based Seavest Healthcare Properties LLC took on …
Are Larger Medical Office Buildings More Valuable than Smaller Ones?
Attendees of this year’s Revista Medical Real Estate Investment Forum (MREIF) in San Diego received take home data briefs as a part of their attendance. One such brief profiled several …
As Welltower Keeps Buying, its Strategy is Becoming Clearer
Sure, we featured Toledo, Ohio-based Welltower (NYSE: WELL) in this space last month, noting that the publicly traded REIT had come off the sidelines and was making plenty of acquisitions …
CPMC Van Ness Campus to Open March 2nd
2019 is expected to be a big year in terms of hospital project completions and the Sutter CPMC campus on Van Ness and Geary in San Francisco is one of …
Despite What Seems to be a Slowdown in MOB Offerings, Montecito Medical Real Estate is on Pace to Invest $900 Million in 2019
For four straight years, medical office building sales have topped $11 billion in annual volume, according to Revista data. However, so far in 2019, MOB sales have slowed a bit, …
Errath & Haslam Named 2020 MREIF Co-Chairs
Revista is thrilled to announce that Andrew Haslam, Chief Asset Officer for Providence St. Joseph’s Health System and Tom Errath, Director for Harrison Street Real Estate Capital will co-chair the …
For Community Based Building & Services, Flexibility is Key
Perusing the Wall Street Journal this weekend, I came across an interesting article: ‘Ok Boomer, Who’s Going to Buy Your 21 Million Homes‘. The article talked about the staggering number …
Healthcare Realty Trust is Finding MOB Acquisition Opportunities to its Liking
The country’s healthcare-focused REITs have always been, and are likely to continue to be, an important investor group in the medical office building (MOB) acquisitions sector.
High Demand Specialties – Orthopedics
There are currently about 600 medical office projects under way across the country. More than 15 percent of those projects include orthopedics. Why do so many projects include this specialty? …
Hospital Construction Booming in Philadelphia
Hospital construction across the US is in the midst of a delivery spike as many projects, both new hospitals and additions, open this year. We are on track to open …
Kaiser Still King of Medical Real Estate Ownership; UnitedHealth Group is on the Rise
It doesn’t look as if anyone is going to dethrone Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente as the country’s largest owner of medical real estate anytime soon.
For the sixth consecutive year, Kaiser, a health insurer and provider with 8.6 million members in nine states, sat atop the annual “2018 Top 50 Owners of Medical Real Estate” report compiled by Revista, which gathers and provides a wide variety of healthcare real estate (HRE) data, statistics and reports for its subscribing members.
Metro Focus – Jacksonville, FL
Did you know Revista is now tracking Occupancy, Absorption, Completions, Rents and Rent Growth within MOBs located in the top 125 metro areas? Let’s take a look at the Jacksonville …
Metro Highlight – Charlotte
Ah Charlotte. She’s been miss popularity for a number of years now. Although 22nd in rank for population, Charlotte is one of the fastest growing cities in the nation. Over …
MOB Cap Rates Coming Off Lows
Medical Office Building (MOB) capitalization rates are trending up from their lows set in late 2017 and early 2018. The average cap rate for MOBs was 6.7% in the 1st …
MOB Q2 Sales Drop 29 Percent From a Year Ago…But Sales Still Have a Chance to Top $10 Billion in 2019
There’s plenty of talk in the medical office building (MOB) sales sector that even though demand remains as high as ever for the product type, the volume has been quiet …
MOB Square Footage, Total Value Rose in 2018 Annual Revista/HREI Development Report Reveals Top Developers of the Year
The year 2018 proved to be healthy one for new medical office building (MOB) construction projects, which is certainly music to the ears of professionals involved in the healthcare real …
MOB Transaction Volume Continues to Cool, Private Investors Still Lead Acquirers
2019 MOB deal volume continues the cooling trend after coming off historical highs in 2017. Preliminary data shows 375 MOBs traded in the first half of 2019 representing about $4.4 …
MOBs Can Weather a Storm
In recent weeks we’ve seen significant volatility in the stock market along with increasing fears of a recession. After all, this is now the longest market expansion in history. It …
Providers and Developers Set Their Sights on Carmel, Indiana
Carmel, Indiana, located in the northern suburbs of Indianapolis, has become a hot target of healthcare providers and associated real estate developers over the past few years. Revista is tracking …
Q3 MOB Sales Were $2.2 Billion; 2019 Total Should Top $10 Billion Once Again
After a slow start to the year, medical office building (MOB) sales have picked up in the second and third quarters (Q2 and Q3), providing a very strong possibility that the final 2019 volume will top $10 billion for the fifth straight year.