ABOUT TRAVER
Mat BessettePrincipal, Traver Healthcare Real Estate
My experience ranges from healthcare portfolios with 150+ locations and growing groups with 25-plus locations to a practitioner opening a 2,000-square-foot startup. Each brings different demands, but every client deserves the same thoughtful strategy, personal attention, and focus on profitability.
Nearly 20 years in real estate brokerage.
My background combines market penetration strategy, firm ownership, national brokerage management, and healthcare real estate. Before launching Traver HRE, I led senior brokers in the Carolinas at CARR as team lead and broker-in-charge. Today, that experience informs how I approach your growth, site decisions, and lease renewals. Renewals are a personal favorite.
You work directly with me.
I stay engaged from the first conversation through execution, coordinating with your team and drawing on trusted broker relationships across the country. You get clear advice, personal attention, and an advocate who takes your business seriously.
EXPERIENCE
From the next opening to the entire portfolio.
My career started in corporate marketing and grew into firm ownership, national brokerage leadership, and healthcare real estate. I graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1999 with B.A.s in Political Science and English.
As a marketing manager and director for two multibillion-dollar building-products companies, I focused on market penetration strategies and brand development—identifying opportunities, understanding the competition, and deciding where to concentrate resources to grow market share.
That foundation still shapes how I think about where a practice should grow. Before searching for space, we study the patients you want to reach, the providers already serving them, and how demographics, access, and forecasted growth affect the opportunity. For groups adding locations, we also consider how each office can extend your reach without drawing patients away from an existing practice.
Sophisticated heat-mapping helps translate that research into a focused site strategy. We establish where a location makes sense, then evaluate available properties and negotiate terms that support your growth and profitability.
I owned and operated Traver Realty & Associates for approximately 12 years, growing the firm to more than 20 full-time brokers. I understand the decisions and daily demands that come with owning a business.
As Managing Broker at Birch Inc., a property management company with more than 22,000 properties across 27 states, I oversaw compliance, developed the governing documents for staff and brokers, and directed brokerage operations.
At the nation’s largest healthcare-specific brokerage, I served as a senior broker on the Carolinas team and broker-in-charge in North Carolina. I worked with national healthcare accounts, local groups pursuing regional growth, and independent practitioners planning their next move. My work combined expansion strategy, sophisticated heat-mapping, site selection, and lease negotiations with coordination among lenders, designers, and build-out teams.
As Managing Broker for one of my national physical therapy accounts, I managed its 150+-location portfolio and guided de novo growth—from identifying target markets through sophisticated heat-mapping and selecting sites to negotiating leases and coordinating new clinic openings.
I created Traver HRE to build on that experience, expand my service offerings, and give my clients more personalized attention and commitment. Extensive market research, sophisticated heat-mapping, site selection, portfolio strategy, and lease renewals serve one purpose: helping you make informed real estate decisions that support your business and maximize profitability.