Summary of Significant Accounting Policies	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2013
Accounting Policies [Abstract]
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies	Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Business Overview Healthcare Realty Trust Incorporated (the “Company”) is a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) that integrates owning, managing, financing and developing income-producing real estate properties associated primarily with the delivery of outpatient healthcare services throughout the United States. The Company had investments of approximately $3.1 billion in 199 real estate properties and mortgages as of September 30, 2013. The Company’s 194 owned real estate properties are located in 28 states and total approximately 13.6 million square feet. The Company provided property management services to approximately 10.2 million square feet nationwide. Principles of Consolidation The Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of the Company, its wholly-owned subsidiaries, joint ventures, partnerships, and other affiliates, as well as certain variable interest entities (“VIEs”) in prior periods where the Company controlled the operating activities of the VIE. The Company reports noncontrolling interests in less-than-wholly-owned consolidated subsidiaries of the parent as a component of total equity on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets to distinguish between the interests of the parent company and the interests of the noncontrolling interest holders. The Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements that are included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012. Management believes, however, that all adjustments of a normal, recurring nature considered necessary for a fair presentation have been included. All material intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated in consolidation. This interim financial information should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations included in this report and in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012. This interim financial information does not necessarily represent or indicate what the operating results will be for the year ending December 31, 2013 for many reasons including, but not limited to, acquisitions, dispositions, capital financing transactions, changes in interest rates and the effects of other trends, risks and uncertainties. Use of Estimates in the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements Preparation of the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements in accordance with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect amounts reported in the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and accompanying notes. Actual results may differ from those estimates. Reclassifications Certain amounts in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for prior periods have been reclassified to conform to the current period presentation. Assets held for sale, and related liabilities, have been reclassified in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets, and the operating results of those assets, including assets sold, have been reclassified from continuing to discontinued operations for all periods presented. In the second quarter of 2013, the Company reclassified certain non-real estate related personal property from "personal property" in "total real estate properties" to "other assets" on the Company's Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. As of September 30, 2013, this amount totaled $23.3 million in "personal property" and $7.2 million in "accumulated depreciation". As of December 31, 2012, the Company reclassified $10.4 million from "personal property" and $6.1 million from "accumulated depreciation", resulting in a net increase to "other assets" of approximately $4.3 million. New Pronouncements In February 2013, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2013-02, Reporting Amounts Reclassified Out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income ("ASU 2013-02"). ASU 2013-02 requires an entity to present, either on the face of the statement where net income is presented or in the notes to the financial statements, significant amounts reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) by the respective line items of net income but only if the amount reclassified is required under GAAP to be reclassified to net income in its entirety in the same reporting period. Amounts that are not required to be reclassified in their entirety to net income must be cross-referenced to other disclosures that provide additional detail. This guidance was effective on a prospective basis for the annual and interim reporting periods for the Company beginning January 1, 2013. The Company's adoption of this standard did not have a significant impact on its Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. The Company's accumulated other comprehensive loss is comprised of one item pertaining to the Company's defined benefit pension plan. Reclassification of the amortization of this item occurs on an annual basis in the fourth quarter of each fiscal year.

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Business Overview

Healthcare Realty Trust Incorporated (the “Company”) is a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) that integrates owning, managing, financing and developing income-producing real estate properties associated primarily with the delivery of outpatient healthcare services throughout the United States. The Company had investments of approximately $3.1 billion in 199 real estate properties and mortgages as of September 30, 2013. The Company’s 194 owned real estate properties are located in 28 states and total approximately 13.6 million square feet. The Company provided property management services to approximately 10.2 million square feet nationwide.

Principles of Consolidation

The Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of the Company, its wholly-owned subsidiaries, joint ventures, partnerships, and other affiliates, as well as certain variable interest entities (“VIEs”) in prior periods where the Company controlled the operating activities of the VIE. The Company reports noncontrolling interests in less-than-wholly-owned consolidated subsidiaries of the parent as a component of total equity on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets to distinguish between the interests of the parent company and the interests of the noncontrolling interest holders.

The Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements that are included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012. Management believes, however, that all adjustments of a normal, recurring nature considered necessary for a fair presentation have been included. All material intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated in consolidation.

This interim financial information should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations included in this report and in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012. This interim financial information does not necessarily represent or indicate what the operating results will be for the year ending December 31, 2013 for many reasons including, but not limited to, acquisitions, dispositions, capital financing transactions, changes in interest rates and the effects of other trends, risks and uncertainties.

Use of Estimates in the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

Preparation of the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements in accordance with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect amounts reported in the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and accompanying notes. Actual results may differ from those estimates.

Reclassifications

Certain amounts in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for prior periods have been reclassified to conform to the current period presentation. Assets held for sale, and related liabilities, have been reclassified in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets, and the operating results of those assets, including assets sold, have been reclassified from continuing to discontinued operations for all periods presented.

In the second quarter of 2013, the Company reclassified certain non-real estate related personal property from "personal property" in "total real estate properties" to "other assets" on the Company's Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. As of September 30, 2013, this amount totaled $23.3 million in "personal property" and $7.2 million in "accumulated depreciation". As of December 31, 2012, the Company reclassified $10.4 million from "personal property" and $6.1 million from "accumulated depreciation", resulting in a net increase to "other assets" of approximately $4.3 million.

New Pronouncements

In February 2013, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2013-02, Reporting Amounts Reclassified Out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income ("ASU 2013-02"). ASU 2013-02 requires an entity to present, either on the face of the statement where net income is presented or in the notes to the financial statements, significant amounts reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) by the respective line items of net income but only if the amount reclassified is required under GAAP to be reclassified to net income in its entirety in the same reporting period. Amounts that are not required to be reclassified in their entirety to net income must be cross-referenced to other disclosures that provide additional detail. This guidance was effective on a prospective basis for the annual and interim reporting periods for the Company beginning January 1, 2013. The Company's adoption of this standard did not have a significant impact on its Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. The Company's accumulated other comprehensive loss is comprised of one item pertaining to the Company's defined benefit pension plan. Reclassification of the amortization of this item occurs on an annual basis in the fourth quarter of each fiscal year.