Interesting points taken from the InterFace Medical Office Conference

In the future it will take 3 doctors to replace 2 that we have today.

Only about 25% of proposed new MOB development space has been pre-leased.

National sale price average of $225/Sq Ft, with a cap rate of 7.2.

National cap rates fluctuate between 6 – 9%.

Lowest vacancy rates are in San Francisco and Boston (sub 6%).

In 2012, 1 out of every 3 Hospitals in this country will have financial problems.

A rebirth of primary care is needed.

There will be a fight for the outpatient market.

Timeshare spaces and entrepreneurial physician models will start to appear.

The rent savings of moving off campus needs to be 25% to really be effective.

The ACO concept is widely misunderstood.

Market dominance will be the ability to have the lowest rental rate.