Four Corners Property Trust Acquires MOB in Tennessee

Four Corners Property Trust Acquires MOB in Tennessee

Four Corners Property Trust announced the acquisition of a medical office building (MOB) housing a Baptist Medical Group (BMG) primary care practice for $9.7 million. The transaction was priced at a 6.9% cap rate on rent as of the closing date and exclusive of transaction costs. The BMG property is located in a highly trafficked corridor in Tennessee and is corporate-operated under a long-term, triple-net lease with approximately 10 years of term remaining. BMG is the Mid-South’s largest integrated not-for-profit multispecialty physician practice, with more than 500 expert primary and specialty care doctors practicing throughout West Tennessee, North Mississippi and East Arkansas.... Read More »
U.S. Hospital Transaction Trends, at Mid-Year

U.S. Hospital Transaction Trends, at Mid-Year

It just might be “the pause that refreshes.” Or it could be the beginning of a painful contraction in the hospital market. In the first five months of 2018, 34 deals—representing definitive agreements and closures—have been announced. That’s the same number reported in the first five months of 2017. The difference lies behind the number of deals, of course. In the first five months of 2017, several large hospital systems merged or were acquired. Among the deals were Mississippi Baptist Health System (four hospitals) and Baptist Memorial Health (17 hospitals); IASIS Healthcare (17 hospitals) and Steward Health Care (18 hospitals); and Steward Health’s acquisition of eight hospitals from... Read More »
May Day! Hospital Mega-Mergers Ahead

May Day! Hospital Mega-Mergers Ahead

Hospital merger and acquisition activity took a breather in the first quarter of this year. The 19 deals announced then represented a 17% decrease compared with the 23 deals announced in the fourth quarter of 2016, and a 30% decrease year over year. Readers who saw headlines in April regarding a rush of hospital mergers in the first quarter, according to data published by Kaufman Hall, should know our differing results are due to methodology. We do not report hospital mergers or acquisitions when the announcement involves signing a letter of intent, when many deals fall apart soon after. Our data derives from the more solid step in the process, when both entities have reached a definitive... Read More »