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Healthcare Realty Trust Acquired $547M In Medical Office Buildings In 2020

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Healthcare Realty Trust had a banner year of investment in 2020, acquiring $547 million in medical office buildings, according to the Motley Fool transcript of the company’s earnings call.

Bethany Mancini, associate vice president of corporate communications, said CMS’ decision to eliminate the inpatient-only list in three years and the continued migration of procedures to the ASC payables list will spur development in the medical office building and ASC sectors.

“We expect health systems to continue to ramp up plans to use a network of MOBs [and] ASCs to lower costs and improve profit margins, while focusing higher-acuity care in hospital settings,”  said Mancini.

Mancini also said the future of government health policy is promising under President Joe Biden’s administration. She believes the administration will expand ACA subsidies and potentially Medicaid.

Healthcare Realty Trust has already made $40 million in acquisitions this year and is also actively developing several medical office buildings with projects in Texas and Memphis, Tenn.

 

Source: Becker’s ASC Review

Borrowers And Lenders Are Adapting To The Hot Heathcare Real Estate Market

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When it comes to financing medical office building (MOB) acquisitions, the cost of capital is not always the most important factor in choosing a lender.

“In fact, when a nine-property MOB portfolio in the Atlanta area changed hands in a sale-leaseback transaction in late 2019, the borrower on the $25 million loan chose to go with a lender that did not have the lowest cost but that knew the tenant best so that they could make sure that everything would go quickly through due diligence and get to closing and not hit any bumps along the way,” said Sabrina Solomiany, a first VP, US Healthcare Capital Markets Debt & Structured Finance with CBRE Group Inc. (NYSE: CBRE), who helped line up the debt for the buyer. “It was very competitive, but ultimately we went with Synovus, with part of the reason being that even though they did not necessarily have the most competitive terms, they actually had a banking relationship with the physician group.”

Ms. Solomiany made her remarks during the recent Revista Medical Real Estate Investment Forum 2020, held Jan. 27-29 at PGA National Resort & Spa in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. She was part of a panel session titled, “Debt Outside the Box: Construction, Mezz & Alternative Asset Classes.” Joining Ms. Solomiany on the panel were: Natalie Sproull, VP with Capital One (NYSE: COF), as moderator; Jim Barnes, director of Healthcare Specialty Lending with Synovus Financial Corp. (NYSE: SNV); and Andrew Smith, managing director with Los Angeles-based Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LP.

During the session, the panelists discussed some of the latest trends in healthcare real estate (HRE) financing when it comes to acquisitions as well as development deals. Part of the discussion focused on how and why certain HRE deals get done.

“When it comes to construction financing of medical projects, people are often surprised that the first few things I consider are not always financial in nature, said Mr. Barnes of Columbus, Ga.-based Synovous. “I like to look more at the expertise of the developer,” he said, “making sure that the developer really has a deep experience in delivering medical properties on time and within budget. This has become much more important recently with the trend toward greater institutional equity investment and, for the most part, the institutional investors having much less expertise in construction than the developers. Secondly, the firm looks for strong sponsorship either from a hospital system or a longstanding, stabilized private practice – something that will create an anchor within the property.”

 

Source: HREI

MLL Capital Expands Medical Office Portfolio With Four Acquisitions

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MLL Capital, a Boston-based commercial real estate investor focused on medical office, laboratory and life sciences properties across the US, announced today the recent acquisition of four medical office buildings, totaling 251,546 square feet during December of 2019.

The properties are located in Chicago, Minneapolis/St Paul, Washington D.C. and Nashville markets.

“These acquisitions align with our strategy to build a portfolio focusing on opportunistic and value-add investments in this sector and repositioning them to attract and retain high-quality medical tenants,” said Wyndsor DePetro, an MLL Capital Principal. “The assets, which are currently 81% occupied, present the opportunity to lease up to stabilized occupancy levels by attracting and retaining a diverse mix of high-quality medical office tenants with a targeted leasing effort using attractive lease packages and capital improvement plans.”

The acquisitions include:

— The 95,043 square foot Advocate Sherman medical office building located on the campus of the Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin, IL, part of the Chicago market

— 28 White Bridge Road, a 60,540 square foot medical office building located near the 498-bed St. Thomas West Hospital in Nashville, TN

— 46440 Benedict Drive, a 35,405 square foot medical office building in Sterling, VA, a submarket of Washington D.C.

— The 60,558 square foot High Pointe Health Campus located in Lake Elmo, MN in the Minneapolis/St. Paul market.

“These are well-located medical properties that present an opportunity to create premier, on- and off-campus, multi-tenant healthcare properties,” said Kyle O’Connor, MLL Capital President and Founder. “There continues to be strong interest from investors in value-add medical office, laboratory and life sciences properties, which offer some of the best risk adjusted returns in the market today given the underlying demand fundamentals and downside protection. These recent acquisitions have us on track to reach our goal of building a $500 million portfolio of institutional-quality assets in this sector.”

 

Source: HREI