Ventas (NYSE: VTR) has two new members on its senior management team. The Chicago-based health care real estate investment trust (REIT) announced on Friday it hired Bhavana Devulapally as chief information officer (CIO) and senior vice president. Juan Sanabria also joins the firm as vice president, investor relations. The pair will report to Ventas Executive […]
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The busiest senior housing underwriter in the country last year wasn’t a large, multinational financial corporation—instead, it was an investment bank a fraction of that size. Chicago-based specialty investment bank Ziegler was the top health care/senior living municipal underwriter by number of financings in 2016, with 80 bond issues worth about $4.46 billion, according to Thomson […]
Competition seems to be ramping up among senior housing owners seeking deals, and an expected shift in pricing might be why. In fact, executives at Murfreesboro, Tennessee-based National Health Investors (NYSE: NHI) have been “in a trance” over senior housing cap rates—and they believe other senior housing owners have been, too. “We’ve been in a trance […]
IPA Closes Record Sale of 33 SNFs in Texas Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap that specializes in serving institutional and major private real estate investors, sold 33 skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in South Central Texas. The transaction is the largest seniors housing sale on record in the state, according to […]
Capital Funding Group Closes 3 Bridge-to-HUD Loans Capital Funding Group, a health care commercial lender based in Baltimore, Maryland, has closed on three bridge-to-HUD loans: a $7.9 million loan for the acquisition of two skilled nursing facilities in Texas; a $13.8 million loan for the acquisition of two SNFs in New York; and an $18.9 […]
A majority of senior housing executives believe interest rates will be the biggest driver for cap rates going forward, indicates a new survey conducted leading up to the 2013 National Investment Center (NIC) for the Seniors Housing & Care Industry conference, but investors are keeping an eye on new construction as well. For 2014, executives […]