Real Estate Is a Whole New Ballgame
Kaufman Hall and HRE Capital provide a winning strategy for healthcare and higher education.
Kaufman Hall and HRE Capital provide a winning strategy for healthcare and higher education.
Kaufman Hall’s real estate practice provides transaction advisory services to many of the nation’s top healthcare providers and developers/investors of healthcare real estate. Kaufman Hall’s focused model provides clients with an unmatched level of relevant experience & independent transaction analysis, structuring and execution capabilities. Kaufman Hall’s real estate practice was launched in 2021 through the acquisition of Healthcare Real Estate Capital (HRE Capital). Providing both consultative and transaction-oriented services, including asset / portfolio joint venture structuring, recapitalizations, dispositions and other related real estate advisory services, the real estate practice has been involved with more than $14 billion of sector-specific real estate transactions across the United States since 2008.
We believe focus matters. That’s why we are strictly focused on advisory and transactional work in the U.S. healthcare and higher education real estate sectors. These asset classes have unique similarities based on institutional anchoring and need to be understood from a fundamental real estate, capital markets and the institutional ecosystem perspective in which they exist. Comprehensive understanding of these dynamics allows us to efficiently and effectively implement the optimal structured transactions for our clients.
Our clients include many of the nation’s largest owners of and investors in healthcare and higher education real estate, including hospitals/health systems, universities/academic institutions, physician practices, developers, operators, real estate investment trusts, private equity firms, and institutional investors, among others.
In aggregate, healthcare in the U.S. represents approximately 18 percent of the Gross Domestic Product, equating to almost $3.5 trillion of annual spending.
The facilities that drive this ecosystem are an interconnected network of inpatient (hospitals), outpatient (medical office buildings and ambulatory facilities), manufacturing (medical devices), and research and production facilities (laboratories, academic research, pharmaceutical production) that are designed to serve the specific needs of its occupants.
We have unmatched real estate advisory and transactional experience across the healthcare delivery chain, representing some of the nation’s largest healthcare providers, developers, investors, and users.
There are approximately 4,700 degree granting higher education institutions in the U.S., of which approximately two-thirds are four-year institutions. These institutions provide education for over 21 million students, or approximately 5 percent of the U.S. population.
Over the last decade, due to technological transformation as well as a changing overall job market, Higher Education institutions are facing unprecedented challenges to their traditional business models. This is playing out with a backdrop of aging facilities, evolving physical plant needs and growing pressures on historic funding sources.
We provide advisory services related to how real estate assets could be owned and/or developed. If appropriate, we will provide transaction services related for new real estate development projects and the monetization of existing core and non-core real estate holdings.
Whether it’s a transactional or consultative need, our team has unmatched real estate advisory and transactional experience across all types of assets that are central to our clients’ core business.
We have experience with the following asset types:
We have experience with the following asset types:
Our focused model, experience, significant consistent transaction volume, and national footprint allow us to best understand all aspects of transaction value drivers and the nuances of these specific asset classes.
Our experience in the healthcare and higher education real estate sectors includes $14 billion of transactions throughout the United States for clients that include many of the nation’s largest institutional and entrepreneurial owners, developers and users of real estate assets.
$193,000,000
Recapitalization of a 19-Building, 525,759 Square Foot Medical Office Building Portfolio Located in the State of Florida
$605,000,000
Sale of a 29-Building, 1,226,312 Square Foot Healthcare Real Estate Portfolio Located Throughout the United States
$400,000,000
Programmatic Joint Venture Equity Raise Including the Recapitalization of a Medical Office Portfolio Throughout the Greater Washington D.C. / Baltimore Region
$215,000,000
Sale-Leaseback of Four Acute-Care Hospitals and Two Medical Office Buildings Located in Los Angeles, California
$285,000,000
Sale of a 16-Asset, 856,179 Square Foot Portfolio of Medical Office Buildings Located in Greenville, South Carolina
$282,000,000
Recapitalization of a Portfolio of 17 Medical Office Buildings Totaling 1.1 Million Square Feet and Development Financing for a 300,000 Square Foot Medical Office Building / Cancer Center
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E. Hunter Beebe is the leader of Kaufman Hall’s Real Estate practice. He has more than 20 years of experience advising health systems, academic institutions, physician practices, developers, investors, and healthcare and higher education real estate operators. Hunter has worked on more than $10 billion in real estate related assignments for many of the nation’s largest and most sophisticated sector participants.
Brent Farrell is a Senior Vice President with Kaufman Hall’s Real Estate practice. With more than 20 years of experience in commercial real estate, he has been involved in over $5 billion in healthcare real estate advisory assignments ranging from medical office buildings to hospitals and post-acute facilities. Brent has completed a variety of transactional engagements, including programmatic joint ventures, acquisition sale/leasebacks, outright dispositions, and debt financings, among others.
William Earl is a Vice President in Kaufman Hall’s Real Estate practice, with more than 15 years of experience in commercial real estate. He has been involved in over $4 billion in healthcare real estate advisory assignments for a variety of clients nationwide.
Stefano Breuer is an Assistant Vice President with the Real Estate practice at Kaufman Hall. His responsibilities include providing analytical, investor outreach, and day-to-day support for current and potential real estate engagements.