A publication built on healthcare real estate.

Landlords lease medical space every week. Health systems and REITs trade buildings constantly. The doctors and the independent investors show up to those conversations once or twice a career, and the documents they're handed are written by the other side. That asymmetry costs real money — quietly, over years, buried in CAM escalators, renewal options, and cap-rate assumptions nobody reads closely enough.

The Med Space Report is built to fix that. We write plain-English analysis of medical, dental, and veterinary leasing — plus what's trading and getting built across Seattle — written for the practice owners who actually need to understand it, not the insiders who already do.

What we do

Three things. We publish analysis and breakdowns — lease clauses explained, market rents by submarket, what's trading, and the sharper corners of Seattle-area healthcare real estate. We run the wire — a running feed of the trades, leases, permits, and openings that move the market, each with a one-line read. And we send a weekly newsletter that pulls the week together, straight to your inbox.

On AI: we use AI tools to help draft and tighten some pieces — the way you'd use spell-check or Grammarly. It never decides what runs: every piece is reviewed and published by a real person, and every figure links to a source you can check.Read our editorial standards →

Who's behind it

The Med Space Report is founded and edited byStuart Chapin — National Editor across the network, and Seattle Editor for this edition. A healthcare real estate broker by trade (tenant- and buyer-side for medical, dental, and veterinary practices), Stuart covers the market the way a practitioner sees it: grounded in real deals, not theory. He is a member of the Washington Rural Health Association. He writes much of what you'll read today, and the publication brings in other specialists to cover their corners of the market — every piece carries a byline, so you always know whose analysis you're reading.

Editorial principles

• We write for the person signing the lease, not the people who wrote it. A practice owner does this two or three times a career, across the table from people who do it every day. Closing that gap is the whole reason we exist — so we explain a deal the way you'd want it explained before you sign, not after.
• Healthcare real estate is its own animal. A medical build-out, a reimbursement-driven tenant, an ambulatory shift, a Stark Law wrinkle — none of it moves like general office space, and we never pretend it does. It's all we cover, and we cover it deep.
• Vague is a dodge. "The market's strong" tells you nothing. We put a number on it — a rent, a comp, a cap rate — or we tell you why we couldn't. No market-speak, no filler.
• Plain English, or it's cut. We explain a term the first time it matters and drop the jargon that's only there to sound smart. Useful beats impressive.