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Why healthcare property is attracting investors with “no idea what they are doing”

Real estate is at the heart of many deals in healthcare services. It can be the key to premium pricing, and deals lost and won. David Batchelor, executive director, specialist markets, CBRE, told HBI 2018 that real estate re-pricing has seen a surge in interest and thereby a rise in opportunities for operators to raise funds – but is this a good thing? Opinions are divided.

Healthcare Real Estate: Presentation, David Batchelor, CBRE – HBI 2018

Real estate is now at the heart of most deals in health care services. Often, it is the key to premium pricing and deals won and lost. In a data-driven presentation, David looks at valuations and forecasts across Europe and Emerging Markets. He then X-rays deals made or broken by property.

France’s biggest independent hospital looks for sale & leaseback deal

Sources at our HBI 2018 Conference tell us that the rumoured sale of the 500-bed Confluent hospital in Nantes should go ahead despite a temporary block imposed by the local high court. A well-educated estimation as to its value indicates it could be one of the biggest single hospitals deal seen in years.

Perennial rapidly grows healthcare services in China

Singapore-based property developer and Chinese health care service operator Perennial Real Estate Holdings reported soaring profits in 2017. We look at its strategy of building hospitals and care homes, often close to high-speed rail hubs. Perennial is pouring some of its profits as a real estate developer into building health care services in China. Perennial remained […]

Saudi group turning hotel into hospital in Egypt

GCC operator Elaj Group has reportedly paid US$10m for an unused luxury hospital in Egypt with a view to turning it into a multi-speciality hospital. We talk to a hospital design consultant who has done this in India and claims its 25% cheaper than a new build.

Nordic nursing home building boom to continue in 2018

More than half of healthcare real estate investor Northern Horizon’s aged care fund is in new build nursing homes and its manager Jussi Rouhento says that trend will continue in a wave of deals to be announced this spring.

The lucrative, luxurious post-birth care business in China

Professional postpartum care - luxury live-in care for both mother and child in the month following childbirth - has evolved into a lucrative business in China in less than a decade. Healthcare Nova speaks to John Yue Zhao, founder and CEO of the Xi Yue Ge care centre to find out more.

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