MOB Construction Outlook
With the cost of construction materials continuing to rise, and interest rate hikes on the horizon, how will new MOB developments be affected?
Industry News
MOB Construction Pipeline Grows throughout 2020
Despite the challenges this year with COVID-19, medical office projects continue to break ground. Openings are not keeping pace, resulting in an in-progress pipeline that continue to grow. As of …
MOB Construction Starts Strong Despite Rising Costs
We\’ve all been hearing about the significant uptick in materials and labor costs associated with construction over the last number of months, particularly lumber which has been the focus of …
MOB Financing Volume Slows in 2Q20 – Here’s the Data
It makes sense that transaction activity would slow in 2Q20 as the MOB sector was in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, Revista’s 2nd Quarter subscriber webcast showed …
MOB Fundamentals Holding Steady Through the Pandemic
The Medical Office Building (MOB) sector has shown its mettle through previous economic challenges. But with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing slowdown of elective surgeries and office …
MOB Fundamentals Remain Steady
Development and acquisition activity is currently suppressed in the medical office sector. However, this does not reflect a wavering in the underlying performance of medical assets. The graph below is from our 3Q23 Industry Fundamentals Report, which tracks a group of large medical office portfolios containing approximately 150 million square feet. It shows the average NOI per occupied square foot, which has continued to tick up, now at a level of $23.20.
MOB Pricing – What the Public Markets are Telling Us
A little over a month ago things were business as usual within the world of healthcare real estate. The Revista Medical Real Estate Investment Forum had just wrapped up very …
MOB Project Delays Temper Deliveries, Starts Steady
MOB project completions continue to slow in 2Q, down to 17 million square feet in annual deliveries. This is the lowest pace of deliveries in the last 6 years and represents a 32% decrease from the annual run rate of 25.1 million SF in deliveries in 1Q2020- just before the onset of COVID and all the related shutdowns, restrictions and labor shortages.
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 Rents by Region
Which regions have the highest rents? According to the following graph, which covers the largest metro areas across the U.S., the Pacific region is the outlier. In 2Q24, the Pacific had asking rents 29% higher . . .
MOB Sales Continue at Furious Pace in 2017
By Mindy Berman, Managing Director at JLL Record MOB sales in the first half of nearly $5.5 billion rivaled total volume in 2012 through 2014. The major reason was HTA’s …
MOB sales slow down in Q1, but it’s still early for 2021
It is probably safe to say that the volume of medical office building (MOB) salesin the COVID-19 pandemic-ridden year of 2020 exceeded people’s expectations. After a lackluster 2Q and 3Q, …
MOB Sales Top $11 Billion for the Fifth Straight Year
Through Q3 of 2019, there was some speculation about whether the total MOB sales volume for the year would top the $11 billion threshold for the fifth straight time. Any …
MOB Sales Were ‘Okay’ in 1Q, at $2.5 Billion
It looks as if the first quarter (1Q) might’ve been the calm before the storm when it comes to MOB sales.
MOB Sector Remains Resilient; Revista Webcast, Data Indicates Stabilized Occupancies Despite COVID-19
The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll on the country’s healthcare systems as well as the healthcare real estate (HRE) sector, even though the industry and property type continue to show resiliency.
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 Tenant Retention Rates Set Recent Highs in 4Q19
Industry participants often point to the “stickiness” of medical office leases. This stickiness is measured in tenant retention rates. Generally, over the past 11 years, average MOB retention rates have …
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 …