Through April – Transaction Volume slowing but still outpacing 2019
A weekly running sum of medical office volume through April 2020 reveals that volume is slowing but that overall, total volume is still running ahead of 2019. Through week 18 …
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Top 50 Metro Occupancy Rate Climbs in 3Q21 for MOBs
The occupancy rate across medical office buildings located in the US top 50 metros climbed to 91.7% in 3Q21. This was up from 91.5% in 2Q21 and 91.3% one year ago.
Top Markets for MOB Construction
In the past twelve months, over 21 million square feet of medical office space have been delivered across the country. More than 35% of that has been condensed in 10 markets. Chicago …
Top Ten Markets for MOB Construction
A significant portion of outpatient construction has been concentrated in top markets in recent quarters. As of 3Q21, 15.3 million square feet, or 32% of the entire US pipeline of medical office construction was located in just 10 metros.
Top Ten Metros for MOB Sales Activity
Last quarter was a record for medical office transaction volume since Revista has been tracking data, coming in at a total of $5.2B in sales. On an annual basis, that …
Top Ten MOB Buyers of 2020
Despite all the difficulties of the pandemic in 2020, medical office transaction activity still kept pace with previous years. Total sales volume cleared $11.2B and these top buyers represented almost …
Transaction Activity has Slowed, but Providers are still Selling
Transaction activity for MOBs has certainly slowed in 2023 due to higher interest rates and tighter lending requirements, but deals are still getting done. A bright spot still seems to …
TTM MOB Cap Rate Trends Showing a 20-30 Basis Points (bps) Sequential Rise
Revista recently held its 1Q23 Subscriber Webcast. Hilda Martin and Mike Hargrave of Revista were joined by Gino Lollio, an Executive Director with Cushman & Wakefield Healthcare Capital Markets. Over 230 subscriber lines registered for the webcast indicating a high level of interest in emerging trends we covered.
UBS Acquires Saddleback Valley MOB from Lillibridge/Ventas
UBS Real Estate, along with Greelaw Partners of Irvine CA recently acquired the Saddleback Valley Medical Center (MOB) from Lillibridge/Ventas. The purchase price was $34.5 million which works out to …
Update on Health System Medical Outpatient Building Buybacks
Health systems have been one of the most active participants in the medical properties investment sales market in the last 3 years, accounting for 17% of all sales activity as either the buyer or seller. In 2025 alone . . .
US Healthcare Real Estate is One Trillion Dollar Sector
Each year, Revista updates its size and scope of the US Healthcare Real Estate Sector. We maintain a database of all hospital, medical office (MOB) and other healthcare properties located …
Ventas – Ardent Deal – Premium Price for a Premier Portfolio? – Part 1
The recently announced Ventas (NYSE: VTR) acquisition of Ardent Health services caught many healthcare real estate investors by surprise. Questions have arisen such as what are they buying, is the …
Ventas – Ardent Deal – Premium Price for a Premier Portfolio? – Part 2
Part one of this post established comparative pricing for the Ventas/Ardent hospital real estate deal compared to Revista’s industry averages. We established that Ventas is paying a slight premium (compared …
Ventas Completes Merger of HCT, MOB cap rate at 6.2%!
Ventas recently completed its previously announced $2.6 Billion acquisition of American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust (HCT). HCT’s portfolio spans 147 total properties including medical office buildings (78), seniors housing (46), post-acute/SNF …
What Was Revista’s Most Active Metro in 2017?
Continuing focus on high medical office sales activity might lead one to wonder where all this activity is occurring. In 2017, more than 25% of sales volume was represented in only …
Where are MOB Cap Rates?
In the chart below we are comparing MOB cap rates to the 10-year treasury yield. So far in 2026 cap rates for medical office transactions have been quite stable. From the end of 2025, through the first half of 2026, the average was flat at . . .
Which Markets are Investors Gaining Share of Outpatient Real Estate?
In the table below we compare these two numbers for each of the Top 50 markets and rank them by the largest shift towards investor-ownership relative to the markets size. Birmingham tops the list with a net . . .
Will Cap Rates Continue to Compress?
We have continued to see cap rates compress throughout the first quarter of 2022. The median has gone up slightly, but...