There’s a good reason Senator Barack Obama is considering Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for energy czar in an Obama administration. California is the greenest of all our states, in no small part due to the Governator’s action-packed role in ensuring the sustainability of the state’s new and existing buildings.

Over the past several years, hospital construction in the United States has boomed. The hospital industry spent nearly $100 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars in the past five years on new facilities, up 47 percent from the previous five years, according to the Census Bureau. Those statistics, coupled with an expected increase in demand for healthcare from an aging population, have given investors ample reason to pay attention to the medical real estate market.

Hawkeye Partners, a boutique real estate private equity firm based in Austin, Texas — has made a name for itself among institutional investors as a matchmaker of sorts. Through its first tailor-made investment program, Scout Fund I, the company works to facilitate relationships between institutional investors looking for new opportunities and new managers looking to earn their stripes among the major players. Claudia Faust and Scott McArtor, co-founders and managing partners of Hawkeye, recently spoke with The Institutional Real Estate Letter editor Rachel Speirs, about their company, their services for investors and their outlook on the market.