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TPG creates European outpatient real estate platform from €400m worth of MOBs bought from Northwest

Private equity investor TPG has launched a specialist outpatient real estate investment platform to hold the €400 million worth of German and Dutch medical outpatient buildings (MOBs) it bought from Canada-based healthcare REIT Northwest in January, and acquire similar additional properties. The platform, called Arcura Medical Properties, will remain fully owned by TPG’s real estate investment branch (TPG Real Estate), but will operate “independently”, managed by Simon Betty as CEO, who formerly headed Northwest’s European branch, along with his team.

CMA accepts Welltower’s offer to offload certain UK care homes

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally accepted US healthcare REIT Welltower’s offer to divest certain care homes out of the 600+ it bought last year. The CMA had raised concerns about the impact on local competition dynamics in certain areas where a large portion of the care homes would now be owned by Welltower.

FREE BLOG Some highlights from HBI’s 2026 Healthcare Property Special Report

This week we have published our third annual Special Report on European healthcare property investment. As well as an update on the general state of investment activity in the market, this report features more case studies than last year’s report, and an even more in-depth discussion on the on-going dearth of new developments across most of the continent, and what investors and operators can do to ameliorate the situation.

2025 saw highest ever residential elderly care real estate investment in Europe

2025 was a record year for investment into European care real estate, with a total of over €14 billion invested according to data from real estate broker Cushman and Wakefield. However, about half of this came from a single US REIT, Welltower, buying up a large chunk of the UK's care infrastructure.

HBI 2026: Healthcare Property Summit

Speakers at the ‘Healthcare Property Summit’ at HBI 2026 expressed qualified optimism about the state of Europe’s healthcare real estate market. The record €21 billion inflow the continent saw in 2025, boosted by US healthcare REIT Welltower’s ~€8 billion investment into the UK’s care sector, “clearly shows confidence that the market is back,” as Nicolas Sannier, EMEA Healthcare Lead - Valuation & Risk at real estate services firm JLL, put it.

How European real estate investors and care operators can build profitably and sustainably — interview with Alberto Fernandez, Healthcare Activos

Healthcare Activos is a Spanish specialist healthcare REIT investing in nursing homes, hospitals, mental health clinics and rehab centres across Europe. Currently it has 84 assets under management, worth over €1.3 billion. Healthcare Activos has two distinguishing features which set it apart from the other major healthcare real estate investors in Europe. One is that they prefer to buy individual properties rather than portfolios, as they prefer to pick and choose the best assets based on their fundamentals (catchment area, design, effort rate, operator, lease agreement) on a case-by-case basis. Secondly, and relatedly, they have a strong focus on new builds, which they design themselves.

CMA investigates Welltower’s UK care home acquisitions

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched an investigation into acquisitions by US healthcare REIT Welltower of care homes managed by for-profit UK care operators Barchester, HC-One, Aria Care, and Danforth Care.

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