Is MOB Rent Growth Correlated to Occupancy?
Classic economic theories establish a clear relationship between supply and demand for many goods and services. In real estate circles the theory says that as prices rise, demand (or occupancy) …
Policy/Legislation
Qualified Opportunity Zones Added to Revista
Qualified Opportunity Zones were created by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The zones are intended to encourage economic development and job creation in distressed communities throughout the country …
New advisory board members commit to Revista’s growth as Revista Forum plans for record attendance
Andy Baxter, Alfonzo Leon, and Ben Ochs join the Revista Advisory Board Anchor Health Properties, Global Medical REIT and Interfinish commit to partnership Revista to have more than 400 at …
Big Welltower MOB Portfolio Purchase Closes Out 2019
As 2019 was winding down, a large MOB portfolio sale closed with just five days left in the year. That sale, perhaps, could be a key toward propelling 2019’s total …
2019 MOB Starts Trend Toward Large, Multi-Specialty Outpatient Centers
Last year 77 medical office projects started that will be over 100,000 square feet when completed. That’s quite an uptick over previous years when we averaged less than 50. The …
Single Property MOB Cap Rates Creeping Up
Overall, MOB cap rates have continued to remain at lower levels compared to just a few years ago. According to Revista’s 3rd Quarter, 2019 Medical Real Estate Transactions Report, the …
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 …
Key Health Care Trends That Will Impact Health Care Real Estate Decisions
Introduction On the consumer side, health care costs represent almost 18% of GNP in the U.S. which is far higher than other industrialized nations around the world. The reasons are …
Revista Updates the Size and Scope of the Healthcare Real Estate Sector
We have recently completed an annual update of the size and scope of the medical real estate sector. For this update, Revista counts inpatient hospital real estate as well as …
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? …
The Most Active MOB Metros 3Q18-2Q19
Medical Office (MOB) transaction volume has slowed during the past year. Within the top 50 metros Revista recorded $7.14B worth of MOB trades from 3Q18 to 2Q19. This was down …
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 …
Revista to Debut Trends for the Top 50 Metros and host 2nd Quarter Webcast on 7/31.
Revista has been hard at work collecting data on medical properties in the top 125 metro areas for several years. As a result, we are very excited to be able …
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 …
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 …
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 …
LEED is not necessarily a widespread goal for MOBs, but ‘green’ trends, including WELL, are emerging
When we at Healthcare Real Estate Insights learned that gaining LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council is no longer a widespread goal for healthcare facilities and MOBs, we …
Metro Highlight – Minneapolis
Minneapolis is not even in the top ten metros when it comes to total number of medical properties in a market. In fact, it’s ranked at 13. Yet this unassuming …