On-campus Laguna Hills MOB trades for $31.335M

SAN DIEGO – Apr. 14, 2021 – JLL Capital Markets announced today that it has closed the $31.335 million sale of The Laguna, a 57,573-square-foot, medical office building in Laguna Hills, California.

JLL represented the seller, Meridian, in arranging the sale to the buyer, a publicly traded real estate investment trust.

The Laguna is located at 24022 Calle de la Plata on the campus of the 325-bed MemorialCare Saddleback Medical Center. This affluent location boasts attractive healthcare demographics with half the population aged 65+ within a one-mile radius.  

The five-story, fee simple property was originally built in 1983 and renovated in 2019, including installing electric car chargers on site, common area renovations, a fire suppression system and an LED lighting retrofit.

The JLL Healthcare Capital Markets team representing the seller was led by Managing Directors Evan Kovac, Andrew Milne and John Chun, and Vice President Trent Jemmett.

“Medical office building space availability has dramatically decreased around the MemorialCare campus in the last few years – dropping from 24% vacancy in 2017 to less than 10% today,” Milne said. “Ownership will benefit from the recent upgrades in conjunction with the lack of available MOB space in the immediate vicinity to capture upside by leasing up the largest vacant block of space on the campus.”

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