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19-Building Florida Medical Building Portfolio Recapitalization Transaction Closes

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Kaufman Hall and Associates, LLC (“Kaufman Hall”) was selected as the exclusive financial advisor to AW Property Co. (“AW” or “Sponsor”) related to the joint venture equity raise for the recapitalization of a 19-building, 525,759 square foot medical office building portfolio located throughout the State of Florida.

The portfolio is comprised of a diverse mix of on- and off-campus medical office buildings aligned with several of the nation’s leading non-profit health systems. The portfolio was owned by a discretionary real estate fund sponsored by AW.

Kaufman Hall’s Role

On behalf of AW, Kaufman Hall undertook a competitive effort to identify the most appropriate institutional capital partner. Kaufman Hall’s efforts included approaching a diverse pool of potential equity partners, including investors with previous medical office experience and firms with no prior experience with healthcare real estate. Based on Kaufman Hall’s efforts, the quality of the Sponsor and the opportunity, AW received multiple proposals from various investor types, including domestic pension fund advisors, foreign capital sources and private equity groups, among others. The structured and highly competitive process resulted in the selection of a well-established institutional investment manager with a national presence across multiple real estate asset types.

 

Source: HREI

Capital Partnerships Are All The Rage In Healthcare Real Estate

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In the early days of the medical office building (MOB) sector, companies that had started to focus exclusively on developing, acquiring and managing such facilities often relied on a network of high net worth individuals, friends and family included, to invest in their projects.

In today’s growing, highly capitalized and sophisticated healthcare real estate (HRE) market, where capital often needs to be deployed quickly and at the lowest cost possible, that type of so-called “country club” capital stack can still work for certain firms and on certain projects.

However, a growing number of growth-oriented companies focused exclusively on HRE facilities, including MOBs, are turning to and aligning with large, deep-pocketed institutional capital partners and fund managers to invest in their developments and acquisitions.

A good example is Anchor Health Properties, a more than three-decades old HRE developer that, beginning with a new management team in 2015-16, embarked on a growth strategy based on expanding three verticals in order to offer wider array of services for its clients, including health systems: management, leasing and investments.

“These all play well off of each other and contribute to the growth of the other verticals,” said James Schmid, Anchor’s chief investment officer. “When we were starting to grow those three verticals, I would say we had modest means to build our platform, and so in order to do a large volume of transactions we knew we had to bring in institutional partners to be able to chase more investments and bring more flexibility, including being able to close quickly on deals, in order to work with best-in-class operators.”

Mr. Schmid, who helps run Anchor with CEO Ben Ochs, made his comments during a panel session at last week’s BOMA International Medical Office Building + Healthcare Real Estate Conference in Minneapolis. The panel, moderated by John Nero of Hammond Hanlon Camp (H2C), was titled: “Investor Strategies: Aligning with Capital Providers.”

He, as well as the other panelists, noted that large, institutional capital partners who want to own MOBs need to be willing to make investments that can start at prices in the $15 million range.

 

Source: HREI