Aveo Pharmaceuticals just inked a lease for 126,000 square feet of laboratory and office space at BioMed Realty Trust’s 280,000-square-foot property at 650 E. Kendall St., marking another life-sciences transaction in the Cambridge, Mass., market.

The co-sponsors of Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II Inc. purchased five medical-office buildings located in California, Arizona and Texas for an aggregate price of $52.5 million. With the purchase, the REIT now holds 76 properties with a total purchased value of $715 million.

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Jones Lang LaSalle Inc.’s job as program manager for the development of Parkview Health’s Parkview Regional Medical Center is done, now that construction of the 975,000-square-foot hospital in Fort Wayne, Ind., has reached completion. The big-ticket project came with an equally big price tag of $536 million.

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Ventas Inc. has announced plans to market 64 healthcare properties, which generate $77 million in annual rent and are presently leased to Kindred Healthcare Inc.

Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services Inc. will be playing key roles as a broker and consultant on a $1 billion, 9.2 million-square-foot development in Apopka, Fla., that is expected to include a regional mall, offices, a college campus, hospital, housing and a merchandise mart.

Kilroy Realty Corp. has unloaded $147.5 million of property — in the form of two medical-office buildings — to LaSalle Investment Management. The two Class A buildings, which total 253,676 square feet, are located in San Diego.

Healthcare Trust of America Inc. expands its presence to 26 states with the $51.3 million acquisition of a 203,000-square-foot medical office building sited on a 200-acre medical campus 30 miles outside of Detroit in Novi, Mich.

With the acquisition of the former Miami Heart Institute, Lionheart Capital L.L.C. has just gotten its hands on a prime waterfront property in Miami. The real estate investment firm acquired the 700,000-square-foot facility from Mount Sinai Medical Center.