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 guides to medical real estate for practice owners — the clauses, the purchases, the build-outs, and what to do before you sign — for the people who actually need to understand it, not the insiders who already do.

What we do

One thing. We publish a library of clause explainers — how a medical lease actually works, written for the owner who signs one once a decade. We do not run a news ticker. Practice owners search at a trigger, not for last week's trades.

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(CARR) — 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 writes the way a practitioner sees a lease: 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.

Related, not this publication: a freefive-minute drive competitor mapfor Washington addresses — named practices inside a five-minute drive. This site is lease education. That map is the look at who is already nearby.

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.