Investors Plan To Put More Money Into Healthcare

The I-word, inflation, is bad enough. But then there’s the R-word: recession. And some forecasters see the potential coming forward, according to the latest CNBC Fed Survey.

Not that it’s a given, but the trifecta of inflation, more hawkish Fed monetary policy, and issues coming out of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have increased the bet to a 33% chance of one in the next 12 months.

That may be what a new CBRE survey picked up on. Distributed to “approximately 500 of healthcare real estate’s most influential healthcare real estate trusts (REITs), institutional healthcare investors, private capital investors, and developers throughout the United States” and responses coming from about a fifth of them, 85% believed that the healthcare real estate industry is “recession resistant.”

“Survey results suggest a very significant increase in capital allocated to healthcare real estate for 2022,” the report said. “In 2021, the total capital allocation provided by respondents in our survey was $10.9 billion, while actual transaction volume for 2021 ended at nearly $16 billion. This year, the total capital allocation from those unique firms who provided a figure (65 out of 86 firms) totaled $17.1 billion, which represents a 57% increase compared to 2021.”

This year, the firms that gave a capital allocation reported $17.1 billion going into 2022, a 57% increase. Given that, CBRE expects investors to allocate at least $25 billion in capital to the sector. Market caps are likely to drop with the capitol going in, and 96% of respondents expected cap rates on Class A on-campus to be below 6% this year, while 79% anticipate the average cap rate will drop below 5.5%.

“This can be ascribed to the ongoing increase in demand for high-quality healthcare real estate, the resiliency of healthcare real estate during the pandemic, and new funding sources actively exploring alternatives to traditional real estate products, such as office, industrial, multifamily and retail,” the report reads.

Similarly, the life science sector is also tremendously strong, with record level venture funding of $32.5 billion in 2021 and in 2022 40% of respondents thinking that life sciences properties, especially those housing biotech or pharma, should see a cap rate below 5%.

As might be expected from these numbers, a big majority—84%—plan to be net buyers of healthcare real estate, including all healthcare REITs and institutional investors that responded. Only 26% of current owners will be net sellers. With that much demand and low interest in dropping net ownership, that describes a coming challenge to obtain additional properties, meaning likely higher prices.

 

Source: GlobeSt.

Dallas-Based Big Sky Forms $1 Billion Joint Venture With Off-Shore Institutional Investor

Big Sky Medical Real Estate, a Dallas-based healthcare real estate investment management firm led by well-known industry veteran Jason L. Signor, announced this morning that it has formed a $1 billion joint venture with “an off-shore, new-entrant, institutional investor.”

The new venture, which seeks to acquire medical office buildings and surgery centers, was seeded by a $400 million-plus MOB portfolio that was aggregated by the Big Sky Medical platform during the past year.

The formation of the JV was facilitated by Big Sky and the Healthcare Capital Markets and International Capital Markets teams of Newmark Group Inc.

 

Source: HREI

Eight-Building MOB Portfolio In Florida, Texas, Tennessee And North Carolina Sells For $91 Million

Dallas-based CBRE has brokered the $91 million sale of an eight-building medical office portfolio across four states in the Southeast and Texas.

A joint venture between Chicago-based Remedy Medical Properties and Boca Raton, Fla.-based Kanye Anderson Real Estate purchased the properties. Lee Asher, Chris Bodnar, Jordan Selbiger, Ryan Lindsley, Cole Reethof, Sabrina Solomiany and Zach Holderman of CBRE represented the seller, Los Angeles-based Spruce Healthcare, in the transaction.

The 177,000-square-foot portfolio includes five properties in Florida and one each in Texas, North Carolina and Tennessee. The portfolio was fully leased at the time of sale with 11 years of weighted average lease terms remaining. Two-thirds of the overall tenancy features orthopedics, oncology and imaging practices. Other specialties include ophthalmology and dermatology, both of which include ambulatory surgery centers.

 

Source: REBusiness Online