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Big Sky Medical Gets Rezoning Approval For Dallas MOB

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Big Sky Medical has received the approval from the Dallas City Council for the rezoning of the roughly 145,000-square-foot Pyramids South Tower, which can now include medical tenants within the property.

The adjacent Pyramids North Tower was rezoned to medical use in 2005 and is currently occupied by Baylor Scott & White and Dallas Plastic Surgery Institute.

Big Sky Medical acquired the two-building property near dowtown Dallas last year in October for an estimated $55 million from Healthcare Realty. The asset was described at that time as the largest medical office property to change hands in the U.S. since 2018. The purchase was made through Big Sky’s partnership with Bahrain-based GFH Financial Group.

The Pyramid Towers encompass a total of nearly 300,000 square feet and are set to become one of the largest medical complexes in North Texas. Pyramids South Tower is a six-story Class A building which was completed in 1998 and features three passenger elevators, controlled access and offers 730 car parking spaces. Managing Director Russ Johnson and Senior Vice President Chris Wright with JLL will handle the leasing services at the property.

Located at 9101 N. Central Expressway, Pyramid Towers are less than 10 miles from downtown Dallas. medical facilities in the surrounding area include Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, SMU Health Center and First Baptist Medical Center, among others.

Big Sky Medical recently made another purchase in the Dallas-Fort Worth market. The company acquired Richardson Medical Center I, a 118,472-square-foot medical office building in Richardson. The property’s repurposing to medical office use began this year.

 

Source: CPE

Caddis Healthcare Building 60K-Sq-Ft Medical Office In The Dallas-Fort Worth Suburb Of Frisco

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One of the state’s largest medical-facility developers is bringing a new medical office to the DFW suburb of Frisco.

Caddis Healthcare Real Estate, whose portfolio includes over $1 billion in acquisitions and developments across the Lone Star State, is set to build a three-story, 60,000-square-foot medical office in Frisco for $12 million.

The project will start construction at the beginning of next year and is expected to be finished in early 2024. It will include a three-story core building and a shell medical building for staff and equipment ready for a tenant-specific buildout.

Investment in Texas healthcare real estate is hot this year. BMO Harris and Synovus Bank just provided $200 million in funding for a joint venture between Dallas-based Big Sky Medical and Bahraini investor GFH back in August. That project will include 13 medical office buildings across Texas and seven other states.

South Florida investor Salvan Capital also purchased a Dallas medical center for $7 million earlier this year to expand its now $26 million national medical portfolio.

Caddis currently has over 80 assets under management across Texas totaling 5 million square feet, across the state’s major metros.

 

Source: The Real Deal

GFH Financial Group Acquires U.S. Medical Offices Portfolio In $400M Deal

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GFH Financial Group, an investment bank based in Bahrain, has acquired a portfolio of medical clinics in the US in a deal valued at $400 million, expanding its real estate portfolio in the world’s largest economy.

The income-yielding medical clinics portfolio consists of 11 assets with more than one million square feet of space and is spread across California, Texas, Maryland and Louisiana, GFH said.

“We are pleased to announce the acquisition of this prime, income-yielding medical clinic portfolio as part of GFH’s ongoing expansion in the medical office building sector in fast-growing cities across the US,” Nael Mustafa, co-chief investment officer of real estate at GFH, said. “We believe strongly in the long-term fundamentals in the healthcare sector and the dynamics that are supporting an increase in demand for high-quality medical office space.”

To date, GFH has built a portfolio of assets in the US medical office building sector valued at $1 billion. In December, it acquired a portfolio of medical offices in the US in a deal valued at $200M. The medical offices portfolio consists of 11 assets with more than 400,000 square feet of space spread across North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Utah, Wisconsin, Ohio and Texas.

The latest portfolio is anchored by investment-grade credit tenancy through Baylor Scott & White (Moody’s Aa3), Texas A&M Health Science Centre (Fitch: AAA), Texas Tech University (Fitch AA+), Memorial Hermann (S&P A+) and Tidal Health (Moody’s Aa3), GFH said. The assets also offer unique specialisations within their respective submarkets, positioning them for high occupancy and rent growth, it added.

The medical clinics sector has been strong performing and proven to be highly resilient to economic downturns — with 99 per cent rent collection during the Covid-19 pandemic. The sector also benefits from population growth and the aging US population accompanied by an increase in healthcare expenditure, which accounted for nearly 19 per cent of the US GDP last year, GFH said.

“Aging populations and growth in outpatient care … continue to make the sector highly recession-resilient and unimpacted by economic cycles. We look forward to working with our partner Big Sky Medical to maximize the value of these assets,” Mr Mustafa said.

GFH’s partnership with Big Sky has resulted in a number of acquisitions totalling nearly $500M in the past six months. This transaction is the third in a series of joint acquisitions.

GFH Financial Group reported a 10 per cent increase in its second-quarter profit as investment banking income and income from co-investments rose as the company continues to boost its portfolio around the globe.

Net profit attributable to shareholders of the bank for the three months to the end of June climbed to $23.06M compared with $20.92M during the same period last year.

 

Source: The National News