Deal reinforces strategy of creating value by packaging MOBs into large portfolios With MOB sales off to a somewhat slow start in early 2019, the closing of the sector’s second-biggest arm’s length deal of all time is sure to bolster the volume for the year. On May 15, Toledo, Ohio-based Welltower Inc. (NYSE: WELL), which has invested more than $6 billion in a variety of healthcare asset types since coming off the sidelines in early to mid-2018, reported that it closed on its previously announced $1.25 billion acquisition of 55 MOBs from Orlando, Fla.-based CNL Healthcare Properties, a non-traded healthcare real estate investment trust (REIT).

Medical Office Building (MOB) capitalization rates are trending up from their lows set in late 2017 and early 2018. The average cap rate for MOBs was 6.7% in the 1st quarter of 2019..

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