CBRE Completes Sale Of A 23-Medical Building Portfolio Totaling $90M Across Four States

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CBRE just announced  the closing of 23 medical buildings through three separate transactions totaling approximately $90 million.

The deals, sold to separate buyers over the last week, totaled over 300,000 square feet across four states. Properties include the Greenleaf Center Medical Portfolio in the Chicago Metropolitan Area, the Dermatology Solutions Group Portfolio in multiple markets in Florida and Alabama, and 2061 Peachtree located in Atlanta, Georgia. The seller’s exclusive advisors for these deals were Lee Asher, Chris Bodnar, Sabrina Solomiany, Shane Seitz, and Ryan Lindsley of CBRE U.S. Healthcare Capital Markets.

The Greenleaf Center Portfolio consists of 13 medical office buildings clustered around a high traffic intersection within the Chicago Metropolitan area. The buildings total 197,385 rentable square feet and were 93% leased at the time of sale, with 44% of the rentable space leased to investment grade-credit and health system tenants.

The Dermatology Solutions Group Portfolio consists of eight dermatology facilities totaling 51,505 rentable square feet located in Florida and Alabama. The properties were 100% leased to Dermatology Solutions Group with a new 10-year lease which was signed by the physician practice at closing.

2061 Peachtree is a five-story class A medical office building located in the highly affluent South Buckhead area of Atlanta, Georgia. The 47,936 rentable square foot building was built in 2013 and is adjacent to Piedmont Atlanta Hospital. At the time of sale, the property was 100% leased to a diverse set of tenants, including Georgia Hand, Shoulder & Elbow (GHSE), the largest hand and upper extremity practice in Georgia.

“We continue to see very strong interest in the market for healthcare real estate assets, and investors have allocated a substantial amount of capital to the sector this year. Consistent with previous years, pricing and demand for healthcare investment properties continues to be strong with steady cap rates year-over-year,” said Lee Asher, Vice Chairman at CBRE.

CBRE Healthcare Capital Markets (HCM) is a national practice of seasoned professionals dispersed throughout the United States with access to the deepest sources of capital dedicated to healthcare investments. The group specializes in providing healthcare real estate investors with acquisition, disposition and debt & equity recapitalization strategies across the continuum of care, including medical office buildings, skilled nursing facilities, long-term care facilities, and other post-acute care operations.

 

Source: HREI

The Top Markets for Medical Office Buildings

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The medical office building sector is considered one of the safest in commercial real estate investments due to, among other factors, a national trend to lower healthcare property operating costs.

“MOBs are a lot more efficient to run, cheaper to operate and are usually leased on a triple net basis which is attractive to investors,” Rodman Schley, senior managing director of BBG tells GlobeSt.com.

According to a recently released report by BBG, between 2005 to 2016 MOBs rose by approximately 50% to about 41,000 nationwide.

“Houston, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Boston, Atlanta and Chicago have the largest concentration of MOB construction projects. Nationally, the MOB market accounted for an estimated 22 million square feet in 2018,” Schley says.

The Dallas/Fort Worth area had the nation’s highest number of MOB construction completions from the third quarter of 2017 to the second quarter in 2018, according to the report.

“The region had nearly one million square feet of medical office space added during this period,” Schley tells GlobeSt.com.

Besides lower operating costs, the increased demand for medical office buildings can be attributed to growing investor interest, convenience and technology, the overall pursuit of a healthier lifestyle, changes in reimbursement and regulations and the aging population’s need for medical care.

The average asking rental price for MOBs rose to nearly $23 per square foot, a 1.4% increase year-to-year. This is due to an increasing demand for the limited supplies of high quality, newly constructed, medical office space and other outpatient facilities.

“The rate of construction and the renovation of MOBs will continue growing,” predicts Schley. “It’s definitely a strong MOB market. We have a lot of baby boomers and they have medical needs. We’ve also become much more health conscious as a society. We are certainly not at an over saturation point in the MOB sector.”

 

Source: GlobeSt.

Healthcare Realty Trust Acquires Four Medical Buildings For $121 Million

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Healthcare Realty Trust Incorporated (NYSE: HR) recently acquired four medical office buildings in three separate transactions for an aggregate purchase price of $121.0 million.

The transactions were primarily funded with net proceeds of $115.9 million from the Company’s equity offering completed on March 19, 2019. Following are details regarding these acquisitions:

— On March 28, 2019, the Company acquired a multi-tenant medical office building on the campus of Indiana University Health’s Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis for $47.0 million. The 143,499 square foot building is 100% leased.

— On March 28, 2019, the Company acquired two multi-tenant medical office buildings on the campus of Inova Health System’s Fair Oaks Hospital, in the Washington, D.C. area for $46.0 million. These buildings total 158,338 square feet and are 72.8% leased in the aggregate.

— On April 2, 2019, the Company acquired a multi-tenant medical office building adjacent to Piedmont Hospital in the Buckhead area of Atlanta for $28.0 million. This 47,936 square foot building is 100% leased.

In the aggregate, the four buildings are 87.7% leased and were acquired at an average capitalization rate of 5.3%. The properties expand Healthcare Realty’s presence in three of its top markets and extend the Company’s relationships with three market leading, investment-grade health systems.

Healthcare Realty Trust is a real estate investment trust that integrates owning, managing, financing and developing income-producing real estate properties associated primarily with the delivery of outpatient healthcare services throughout the United States. As of December 31, 2018, the Company owned 199 real estate properties in 27 states totaling 14.8 million square feet and was valued at approximately $4.9 billion. The Company provided leasing and property management services to 11.2 million square feet nationwide.

Additional information regarding the Company, including this quarter’s operations, can be found at www.healthcarerealty.com. Contact the Company at 615.269.8175 to request a printed copy of this information.

In addition to the historical information contained within, the matters discussed in this press release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These risks are discussed in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Healthcare Realty Trust, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 under the heading “Risk Factors,” and as updated in its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed thereafter. Forward-looking statements represent the Company’s judgment as of the date of this release. The Company disclaims any obligation to update forward-looking statements.

 

Source: AP News