Medical Office Building Construction Remains Strong In Starts And Completions

Although many healthcare real estate (HRE) professionals correctly predicted that medical office building (MOB) sales would remain strong during the COVID-19 pandemic, they did express some concern that construction numbers would fall as providers would be forced to focus on myriad other concerns than moving into new buildings.

But that hasn’t been the case so far.

“Medical office construction has remained very strong throughout COVID, both in terms of starts and completions,” said Hilda Flower Martin, a principal with the HRE research and data firm, during a Jan. 26 Revista webcast. “Completions slowed a little bit towards the end of the year (2020), but starts remain pretty much in line (with past years), as there was about 20.9 million square feet of MOB space started as of the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2020 on a trailing 12-month basis (TTM). The MOB projects being built are typically well pre-leased and continue to get larger.”

 

Source: HREI