Tag: healthcare

Altamar and Healthcare Join to Create Healthcare Activos Yield

10 September 2019- Healthcare Activos, which specialises in investing in the healthcare real estate assets, and Altamar have joined to create Healthcare Activos Yield. The vehicle, which will invest in the Iberian Peninsula, has 20 assets in its portfolio, all of which are leased long-term to European operators, and an initial investment of more than €250 million.

Healthcare Activos Yield intends to grow its portfolio by acquiring additional assets. Healthcare-based real estate assets in Spain are currently worth approximately €20 billion. Market sources forecast growth of around 3% per year over the next 15 years.

Original Story: Expansión

Adaptation/Translation: Richard D. K. Turner

Belgium’s Cofinimmo to Invest in Geriatric Residences in Spain

10 September 2019

Cofinimmo, a Belgian socimi specialised in developing and managing rental properties, is now investing in the healthcare market. The company has begun construction on its first residence for senior citizens in Spain, in Vigo. Cofinimmo will also invest in a second such residence in the province of A Coruña.

Cofinimmo’s subsidiary Gloria Health Care Properties is building the residence in Vigo, with a planned investment of eight million euros. The 8-floor building will have a total of 140 beds and is expected to be ready by November 2020. Clece Vitam, geriatric facility management group responsible for 145 residences and 92 daycare centres throughout Spain, will manage the facility.

Original Story: Planta Doce – A. Escobar

Adaptation/Translation: Richard D. K. Turner

Medcap Diversifies & Allocates €50M to Alternative Investments & Portugal

19 March 2018 – Eje Prime

Medcap is starting 2018 by making new investments and entering new markets. Diversification and alternative assets are going to be the focus of the group over the coming months, which has just invested €50 million on its entry into Portugal and the launch of a healthcare assets investment division, according to explanations provided by Dimas de Andres, the group’s CEO to Eje Prime.

One of the main operations that Medcap is going to carry out this year, as well as continuing “to keep an eye on opportunities in the prime retail sector, which is one of the fund’s main activities” is going to be the launch of two out-of-town retail parks in the Portuguese market, specifically, in Lisbon and Porto.

The company has invested €30 million in the purchase of 2 plots of land, one spanning 19,000 m2 and the other measuring 27,000 m2, for the complete development of two commercial areas, which are going to be leased in their majority to a supermarket group, according to explanations from Medcap.

Medcap Real Estate, a company owned by the De Andrés Puyol family, has also explained that it is going to back alternative investments this year. The company is currently involved in a healthcare project in the Community of Valencia. With an investment of between €15 million and €20 million, Medcap is going to construct the building with all of the needs that a healthcare operator may have, in order to put it on the market and lease it or resell it.

With these types of assets, the company is going to focus its efforts on Valencia and Cataluña. “We are not afraid to continue buying in Spain: our investments in Madrid and Barcelona are still intact”, explains the CEO of the company. “We are long-termists and we are not afraid of the political situation”, he says.

In addition to its investments, the group is also starting a divestment phase in 2018. The company has already sold the NH Murcia Hotel, located in Cartagena, and a supermarket, also located in Cartagena, for €12.5 million. “At the end of the day, divestment forms part of our business too”, say sources at the company.

MedCap, ten prime assets

At the beginning of 2015, the De Andrés Puyol family constituted Medcap Real Estate to manage its portfolio of assets, formed as a result of the contribution by Inversora del Reino de Valencia of one of its branches of activity, which included all of the urban assets leased or offered as rental properties, as well as all of the shares of the subsidiary specialising in managing operations relating to prime retail.

Medcap’s shareholders have a long history in the real estate business, with extensive experience in the search for, development of and letting of assets. Medcap focuses its activity mainly on the prime segment given the greater stability of that sector. Nevertheless, it also has a portfolio of rental properties for operation such as supermarkets in more secondary areas.

Medcap has a pipeline of assets in different stages of development or study in Spain, the Netherlands and Italy. Its most noteworthy properties include the building at number 80 Paseo de Gracia, where the luxury firm Louis Vuitton has its flagship store in the Catalan capital, as well as the Desigual megastore on Plaza Cataluña and the Apple store on Paseo de Gracia, according to the firm’s annual accounts.

In Madrid, until January, the group was the owner of the Adidas flagship store at number 21 Gran Vía (pictured above), which it sold to Triuvua; and the Louis Vuitton flagship store at number 66 Calle Serrano in Madrid, amongst others. The valuation of Medcap’s prime retail assets exceeds €475 million, according to the most recent valuation performed by the company.

Original story: Eje Prime (by Custodio Pareja)

Translation: Carmel Drake

Solvia Puts 3 Hospitals Up For Sale

13 October 2017 – Solvia.es

Solvia, the nationwide leader in real estate services, has put three hospitals in Spain owned by Banco Sabadell, up for sale through an orderly process. The assets are currently leased to the hospital group Quironsalud, a high-profile company in the healthcare sector in Spain, which is in turn, owned by the German healthcare group Fresenius, which acquired 100% of Quironsalud in 2016.

This operation, which is expected to be closed before the end of the year, will be one of the largest to take place in 2017; moreover, this year is forecast to see record levels of investment in Spain. The operation is expected to spark interest amongst investors and Solvia had already received several offers from domestic and international groups, even before the hospitals had been put up for sale.

Hospital Quirón Barcelona, regarded as one of the iconic hospitals in the city, was constructed in 2006 in a privileged location (Plaza Alfonso Comín 7), just 5km from the city centre; it comprises a total surface area of 58,000 m2.

Hospital Quirón Vizcaya is located in the town of Erandio (Carretera Leioa-Unbe, 33 bis), 10km from the centre of Bilbao, and comprises a surface area of 19,000 m2 spread over two buildings.

Meanwhile, Hospital Quirón San Sebastián acquired a former palace in 1990, just 2km from the city centre (Parque Alcolea 7), which was subsequently converted into a hospital, comprising a complex of three buildings with a surface area of 7,000 m2.

Currently, the healthcare market is experiencing a significant shortage of supply in the face of rising demand, and so investors are very interested in identifying more opportunities beyond the traditional markets (France, Germany and United Kingdom) (…).

So far in 2017, investment in tertiary real estate assets in Spain has recorded a significant increase with respect to the previous year, favoured by an improvement in domestic demand, a reduction in unemployment and the favourable performance of tourism, whilst returns have continued to be compressed due to the strong investor pressure.

Proof of this is that more than €7,000 million has been invested in non-residential assets during the 8 months to August 2017, which represents an increase of more than 60% with respect to the same period last year. This year is expected to close with higher real estate investment figures than in 2016, with a volume of around €10,000 million.

Solvia has become the market leader in the real estate services sector in Spain, maintaining a portfolio of 148,000 real estate assets under management, whose value exceeds €31,000 million and of which more than €4,300 million are financial assets. Similarly, the firm manages €1,200 million of assets comprising land under development.

Original story: Solvia.es

Translation: Carmel Drake

Casanova Buys Land In Cataluña To Build 2 Logistics Warehouses

5 September 2017 – Eje Prime

Grupo Baraka is still shopping. The company, led by the Murcian businessman Trinitario Casanova (pictured above) has just closed two real estate transactions in Cataluña. The group has acquired two plots of land with a combined surface area of 72,000 m2, where it plans to build two logistics warehouses of up to 19,000 m2 each.

One of the plots is located in Sant Esteve de Sesrovires and the other is in Santa Perpètua de Mogoda, both in the province of Barcelona, according to El Economista. The company has not made any statement regarding the price it has paid for the plots.

These transactions follow the purchase of a plot measuring 600,000 m2 in Montcada i Reixac (also in the province of Barcelona) in July, for which the group paid around €300 million. On that plot, the group plans to construct a health care complex comprising at least one hospital, as well as care-in-the-home properties and garden areas.

Original story: Eje Prime

Translation: Carmel Drake