Ventas SEC Filing Profiles Its Business Model For 2009

Ventas, a healthcare real estate investment trust (REIT), recently filed an 8-K SEC filing that contained a presentation on its company that provided a current profile and discussed the company’s current financial statements and discussed its portfolio of properties. The presentation goes to great lengths to focus on the liquidity of the company and the […]

Sunrise Senior Living Suggests Financing Options For Senior Care

Sunrise Senior Living (NYSE: SRZ) announced that it has created and is providing a a new informational guide to help seniors and their families identify ideas for affording senior care in today’s challenging economy.  The guide is entitled Affording Senior Living: The Financial Options and is available at Sunrise communities nationwide and also online at […]

Senior Housing Finance Crash Course Needed For New Developers

Since the start of the year, many developers from other industries have asked Senior Housing News to provide some information on developing senior housing and more specifically finding financing and funding for proposed senior housing projects. Many of these requests have been from residential / single family developers that have found their access to construction […]

UK Firm Seeks To Build Rural Retirement Community

The Press in the UK, ran an article that talked about how the owners of Shepherds Purse Cheese are looking to construct a £42 million CCRC near their North Yorkshire farm. The project called, Thornton Fields, would be located on 60 acres of their family land near Thornton le Moor and would accommodate up to […]

Las Vegas City Council Allocates $6 Million In Funds For Affordable Senior Housing

The Las Vegas City Council recently approved nearly $6 million in federal and state funds for the development of 108 affordable housing units at four different projects. The city of Las Vegas Neighborhood Services Department will oversee the city’s allocation of funding for these affordable housing projects. Westcliff Pines Senior Apartments – $1.5 million – […]

Nauset Construction And Radius Healthcare Near Completion of Brookside at Regency

A few weeks ago, Nauset Construction and Radius HealthCare announce that the $5.4M Brookside at Regency Assisted Living Facility project located in Centerville, Massachusetts is nearing completion. The 3 story, 29 unit assisted living community Radius’s first assisted living facility in its portfolio of healthcare communities located throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Brookside at Regency […]

Massachusetts Senior Housing Project Receives Funding Support

MassDevelopment announced last week the closing of a low-cost financing package for an affordable senior housing construction and preservation project. The Somerville Housing Authority will use the proceeds from a $14 million tax-exempt bond to demolish an outdated 64-unit apartment complex for the seniors and the disabled, and construct a new 95-unit affordable housing facility […]

Equity Lifestyle Properties Q4 Results Are Down

Equity Lifestyle Properties, Inc. (NYSE:MHC), a real-estate investment trust focusing on resort communities for ages 55+, announced its 4th quarter results that were down from last year due to rising expenses and fewer sales of homes in their communities. Approximately seventy percent of Equity Lifestyle’s residents are 55+ and nearly two-thirds of its communities are […]

Emeritus Acquires Tampa, Florida Senior Community

Emeritus Senior Living, a Seattle based operator of senior living communities announced last week that it had acquired Southerland Place located in Tampa, FL. The Southerland Place will be re-branded under the new name Emeritus at Northdale. “Emeritus at Northdale is a wonderful addition to the Emeritus family,” says President and Co-CEO, Granger Cobb. “We […]