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TOLEDO, OHIO—Welltower has entered into a definitive agreement to buy a 29-property Class-A medical office building portfolio from Hammes Partners for $787 million. The properties are concentrated in the New York and Boston areas as well population centers in Massachusetts, California, Texas and Maryland. The portfolio is affiliated with Baylor Scott & White, Providence St. Joseph, Trinity Health, Medstar and other not-for-profit health systems and multi-specialty physician groups.

Separately, the REIT is also investing $885 million across four separate outpatient medical transactions that are currently under contract.

And in another transaction, Invesco Real Estate took a majority stake in a portfolio of 35 medical office buildings owned by Welltower in a $850 million joint venture with the REIT.