Transactions & Financings: Ensign Group’s Campus Acquisition; LTC Transitions Thrive Communities

The Ensign Group acquires Texas post-acute care campus The Ensign Group (Nasdaq: ENSG) completed the acquisition of Golden Palms Rehabilitation and Retirement, a post-acute care campus in Harlingen, Texas. The campus includes 38 assisted living beds, 92 independent living units and a 60-bed skilled nursing facility. Ensign Group acquired the real estate and operations. LTC […]

How Pathway to Living and Solera Are Executing Multi-Brand Strategies

A growing number of senior living developers and operators are creating multiple brands. One significant upside of this strategy is the ability to gain greater share of a market, across different price points. Pathway to Living has found success venturing into high-end senior living with its Aspired Living brand, as well as the middle market […]

Capri CFO Ferge: Scale, Unique Programs Help Us In Competition for Talent

Since Kristin Ferge joined Capri Senior Communities in 2016, she has helped lay the foundation for the company’s rapid growth through a mix of new development and acquisitions. Today, the Waukesha, Wisconsin-based company is the largest senior living developer and operator in the state by total number of units, according to 2018 rankings from industry […]

Clean Slate Project Offers Blueprint for Senior Living’s Future

Picture a vertical, mixed-use community with a senior living component where residents have access to retail, health care and entertainment, using virtual reality platforms to connect older adults with similar interests, or creating new organs for the body via 3D printers. These innovations are either already here or on the horizon, and they can be […]

CA Ventures Charts Ambitious Growth for New Anthology Senior Living Operating Platform

Having laid a foundation for senior housing development, CA Ventures is now turning its attention to expanding its new operating company, Anthology Senior Living. The move vertically integrates the Chicago-based real estate and developer’s senior living line, and charts a course for rapid expansion through acquisitions and development, CA Senior Living President Ben Burke told […]

HCP Expects More Even Split Between Triple-Net, RIDEA in 2019

With its senior housing portfolio makeover largely in place, HCP (NYSE: HCP) is now turning its attention to triple-net leases that are coming up for renewal and adding to its RIDEA relationships. The Irvine, California-based health care real estate investment trust discussed its plans before an audience at the NAREIT 2019 Investor Conference in New […]

NHI, Discovery Entering $128M, 6-Property Joint Venture

National Health Investors (NYSE: NHI) is strengthening its relationship with Discovery Senior Living. The Murfreesboro, Tennessee-based health care real estate investment trust announced a $128.4 million joint venture with the Bonita Springs, Florida-based provider to acquire six properties in Indiana, Maryland and Pennsylvania. NHI is also committed to a $6 million senior mortgage for an […]

Prime Senior Housing Group On Bridging The Middle-Market Gap

As the affordable housing crisis continues to impact senior living, developers aim to fill in the gaps in service for middle-class seniors making the transition to the space — and Prime Senior Living Group President of Development Debra Maynard hopes to be among those helping to bridge the gap. Prime is developing a construction pipeline […]

Solinity, Paran Homes Venture Will Develop Middle-Market Senior Living in Southeast

The Southeast is emerging as a hotbed for middle-market senior housing development. Knoxville, Tennessee-based senior living owner-operator Solinity formed a partnership with Paran Homes to develop, own and operate senior housing aimed squarely for the middle market, Solinity CEO Josh Crisp told Senior Housing News. Duluth, Georgia-based Paran Homes is a residential specialist with 19 […]

Why It’s Time to Redefine CCRCs for the Next Generation

Continuing care retirement communities (CCRC) have adhered to a paint-by-numbers design and construction model for decades, but this could be changing. The expected stampede of baby boomers in need of senior living over the next decade is expected to change the design paradigm, as well as what will be expected of CCRCs. Developers and operators […]