Differentiation Among Health Care Real Estate Portfolios Likely to Persist in 2020

The latest edition of the Nareit REIT Report podcast looked at trends in the REIT health care real estate segment with Michael Gorman, a managing director and REIT analyst at BTIG.The key theme last year was the differentiation in the underlying performance of health care real estate portfolios, according to Gorman. That trend is likely to remain in place, at least in the first half of 2020, he noted.In 2020, “we don’t see a groundswell of improvement in any of the particular property types. Senior housing is still going to be pretty choppy at the national level,” Gorman said. However, the medical office building segment should return to external growth in a “more meaningful way” in 2020, he added.One key factor adding to uncertainty in the health care real estate sector this year is November’s general election, according to Gorman.