Physicians Realty Trust Announces Agreement To Purchase Medical Office Portfolio For $764 Million

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Physicians Realty Trust, a self-managed healthcare real estate company, announced today that the Company, through its operating partnership, Physicians Realty L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, has executed a Master Transaction Agreement for the acquisition of 15 Class-A medical office buildings located in eight states, comprising approximately 1,460,000 square feet, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $764.3 million, subject to closing prorations and other adjustments.

The Pending Acquisitions

The portfolio is approximately 95% leased with a weighted average remaining lease term of approximately 7.4 years. Each of the 15 buildings are either located on a health system campus or are affiliated with a health system, and approximately 74% of aggregate leased space is attributable to investment grade health systems or their subsidiaries. Upon closing, the first year unlevered cash yield of the portfolio is expected to be 4.9%. The Company expects that the transaction will be completed in the fourth quarter of 2021.

At closing, the Company anticipates funding the purchase of the Pending Acquisitions through the issuance of units of the Operating Partnership, the assumption of indebtedness on certain properties, the satisfaction of existing mezzanine loans outstanding, and proceeds from its unsecured line of credit.

The Master Transaction Agreement contains customary representations, warranties and covenants of the parties. The Pending Acquisitions are also subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions to closing, including the waiver of health system purchase rights with respect to certain properties. There can be no assurance that any or all of the conditions to closing will be satisfied or, if satisfied, that the Operating Partnership will complete the Pending Acquisitions, or effectuate the closing in a timely manner or at all.

About Physicians Realty Trust

Physicians Realty Trust is a self-managed healthcare real estate company organized to acquire, selectively develop, own and manage healthcare properties that are leased to physicians, hospitals and healthcare delivery systems. The Company invests in real estate that is integral to providing high quality healthcare. The Company conducts its business through an UPREIT structure in which its properties are owned by Physicians Realty L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Operating Partnership”), directly or through limited partnerships, limited liability companies or other subsidiaries. The Company is the sole general partner of the Operating Partnership and, as of June 30, 2021, owned approximately 97.6% of the partnership interests in the Operating Partnership (“OP Units”).

Investors are encouraged to visit the Investor Relations portion of the Company’s website (www.docreit.com) for additional information, including annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, press releases, supplemental information packages and investor presentations.

 

Source: HREI

Artemis Recapitalizes Six Properties With Rendina To Seed New Joint Venture For Development And Acquisition Of MOBs Nationwide

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Newmark announced that it has arranged a strategic joint venture seeded by a national MOB portfolio recapitalization.

Rendina Healthcare Real Estate  is a leading, national medical office development and acquisition platform, fully integrated with development, ownership, management and leasing capabilities. A pioneer in the healthcare real estate development sector, Rendina has developed more than 8.5 million square feet during its 35-year history.

This transaction marks an inflection point in the growth of the company as the firm partners with Artemis Real Estate Partners, an institutional investment manager that focuses on equity and debt investments in healthcare real estate across the United States.

Rendina and Artemis have entered into a joint venture to develop and acquire a national portfolio of healthcare properties. The venture was seeded with the recapitalization of six properties developed by Rendina. The nearly 230,000 square foot portfolio spans four states, with concentration in the Northeast, and is leased to some of the leading healthcare systems and physician group practices in the country. The joint venture will immediately invest in an additional 140,000 square foot medical office development, followed by a near-term development and acquisition pipeline.

Newmark’s Healthcare Capital Markets Group represented Rendina on the portfolio recapitalization, advised Rendina and Artemis on establishing the joint venture, and secured the acquisition and development financing. The transaction was led by Newmark Executive Managing Director Ben Appel, Senior Managing Directors Jay Miele and Michael Greeley, Managing Director John Nero, and associates Ron Ott and Adam Goss of the firm’s National Healthcare Capital Markets Group.

“Like-minded investment philosophy, culture-fit, sophisticated understanding of the healthcare real estate market and appetite for portfolio growth were key criteria in our selection process. Artemis checked all the boxes we were looking for in a programmatic equity partner, said Richard Rendina, Chairman & CEO of Rendina.

“Artemis is excited to partner with a best-in-class sponsor like Rendina to grow a high quality portfolio of healthcare real estate assets. Rendina has the relationships and proven track record that we were looking for in a partner” stated Kevin Nishimura, Principal of Artemis Real Estate Partners.

“Rendina has seen tremendous success having developed for many of the Nation’s largest and most highly-regarded health systems, and dominant physician networks,” said Appel.

“This programmatic venture further supports Rendina’s growth, providing the firm additional resources to meet the evolving needs of healthcare providers across country,” added Miele.

“This joint venture will make Rendina even more competitive on development opportunities and will also provide us the acquisition platform and portfolio growth we have long-desired”, said Richard Rendina. “We believe the combination of Rendina’s expertise with Artemis’ capital will be a winning recipe not just for us, but for our healthcare provider clients as well. Rendina believes our health system relationships are our most valuable assets. Artemis understands this nuance to our business, and has shown us that they value relationship-based business and decision-making the same way Rendina does.”

 

Source: HREI

Demand For Senior Housing Ticks Up As Sector Continues COVID Recovery

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Demand for senior housing properties began recovering this quarter as vacancies dropped nationally and rent growth picked up across all four major care types.

According to a new report from Moody’s, Q2 vacancy for the asset class came in at 16.9%, still worse than the pre-COVID five-year average but 10 basis points below the peak of 17% earlier this year.

“It may be too early to say the stress has bottomed out, especially given the recent resurgence of the virus, but second quarter data did prompt a bit of optimism for the senior housing sector,” Moody’s economist Lu Chen writes, noting that the second quarter vacancy rate for independent living, memory care, and assisted living facilities all declined between 10 and 30 basis points, while the vacancy rate for skilled nursing properties remained flat.

Memory care facilities, which have been hardest hit by the pandemic, showed a vacancy decrease of 8.8%, ending the quarter at 19.9%. Assisted living and skilled nursing facilities vacancies ticked up 6.9% over the same period to 18.2% and 16.5% respectively, while the vacancy rate at independent living facilities ticked up 6.1% from 9.5% pre-pandemic to 15.9% in the second quarter of this year.

Rent growth has softened year-over-year, Chen says, since most senior housing properties post rent changes at the beginning of the year, but Moody’s data suggests that rent growth picked up across all care types. The assisted living sector posted the fastest year-over-year rent growth, followed by independent living facilities.

Meanwhile, net absorption increased into positive terrain for the first time since 2020. Memory care is back to Q1 2020 levels, while skilled nursing showed the biggest gains with 8,000 units absorbed so far this year.

“As a result of the weakness in sector fundamentals since the public health crisis, extended slowdown of new facilities coming to market is consistent with the increase in investor’s caution for senior housing,” Chen writes.

Moody’s is “cautiously optimistic” in its outlook for the sector, Chen says, citing Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service data indicating that more than 83% of the nursing home residents are fully vaccinated. However, he notes just 26% of nursing home facilities across the US have hit the industry target of vaccinating 75% of their staff.

“Low vaccine rates among staff and residents in states such as Florida leaves the senior housing industry more vulnerable to the resurgence of the virus. Starting in the first week of July, there has been a noticeable uptick of confirmed cases among senior housing residents and staff,” Chen says. “With new mask and vaccination mandates starting to take place in many places, we will closely monitor how that’s shaping the industry demand and supply in the coming months.”

An analysis from JLL earlier this spring indicated the need to serve the middle-income population will increase, leading to opportunities for investors.

“Investors remain bullish on seniors housing and care investments,” said JLL Managing Director Zach Bowyer, MAI, head of Alternatives Asset Sectors, Valuation Advisory. “We anticipate market fundamentals to steadily improve and the market to re-stabilize between two and four years, depending on the location.”

 

Source: GlobeSt.