Watermark, KAREA to Create Senior Housing Highrise in Brooklyn

Private equity investor Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors (KAREA) is partnering with Watermark Retirement Communities to bring more upscale senior housing to New York City. KAREA has acquired a historic 16-story building (pictured above) in Brooklyn Heights formerly owned by the Jehovah’s Witnesses, which it will redevelop into private-pay senior living and place under the […]

‘Pure Play’ No More: Omega Ups Its Senior Housing Game

When Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE: OHI) announced that it would be acquiring Aviv REIT (NYSE: AVIV) in 2014, CEO Taylor Pickett described the combined company as the “premier pure-play skilled nursing REIT.” Today, skilled nursing still accounts for the vast majority of the REIT’s roughly 900 properties, but “pure play” may become a stretch as the […]