SCOTTSDALE, AZ—This year in the medical office real estate industry there has been several large portfolio sales that have been the result of the aggregation of single assets and smaller portfolios. That is according to Chicago-based Erik Tellefson, managing director of Capital One Healthcare Medical Office/Medical Properties Loan Originations segment.

Tellefson, who will be a speaker at the upcoming RealShare Healthcare conference here in Scottsdale in December, tells GlobeSt.com that from a lender's standpoint, this is a positive development. “While we remain very happy to finance single assets and smaller portfolios, larger diversified portfolios are often very strong credits and diversify any risk inherent in the assets.”

He also notes that this trend is positive because it validates the aggregation strategy many of the company's borrowers and overall medical office investors have been pursuing. “Capital One continues to support the medical office and medical properties sector, and we look forward to continuing to grow with the industry. As a lender this has been our most robust year and we anticipate even more growth in transactions and development in the near future.”

From a technology perspective, Tellefson says that tele-health has become more prevalent in the healthcare market today. “We view this as a positive shift for the medical office industry as the likely result from these services is that patients end up going in for treatment to a hospital or medical office setting.”

He adds that the response to consumer preferences, whether spurred by technological advances or just in general, has been the ongoing movement of healthcare into the suburbs and closer to the end user.

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