Editor’s Picks: End of the Senior Housing Boom, CCRCs on Edge

Thank you for being a friend! This week, we were humming one of our favorite TV theme songs after reading some of the latest media coverage about the home-sharing trend among seniors. Also this week, SHN readers were eager to find out why some experts think the senior housing boom might be ending and how […]

Why a ‘Dumb Money’ Influx Has Senior Housing Execs Jittery

It’s no surprise that leaders in the senior housing sector are worried by the specter of rising interest rates—but it may be less obvious why a flow of new capital into the industry is also a top cause for concern. Yet, the capital influx is indeed a major source of anxiety right now, according to […]

Webinar: Critical Metrics for Financing Senior Housing

In today’s senior living market, understanding the metrics required to get attention from lenders and investors is more critical than ever. Our panel takes an in-depth look at the financial metrics required to successfully navigate obtaining financing or repositioning an asset for long-term success. Whether it is a standalone asset for new development, an acquisition, […]

New Development Ranks as Top Senior Housing Opportunity—and Threat

Senior housing professionals seem to be of two minds about new development, according to a recent survey conducted by Capital One (NYSE: COF), a leading finance provider to the senior housing sector. Though 41% of the senior housing professionals surveyed said they anticipate new development to offer the greatest investment opportunities in the coming year, 35% named potential overbuilding […]

Movers & Shakers: Capital One’s Senior VP

Capital One Appoints New Senior Vice President to Seniors Housing and Healthcare Agency Lending Group Capital One announced on Sept. 17 the appointment of Allison Holland as the company’s senior vice president to its Seniors Housing and Healthcare Agency Lending Group. In her new role, Holland will serve as originations manager for Fannie Mae and Freddie […]

NIC Preps for New Era of Senior Housing Data

As the senior housing industry continues to grow in sophistication, the technology that tracks it must also evolve to bring more transparency to the market. For more than two decades, the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) has been the go-to source for senior living operators, developers, investors and other industry stakeholders […]

Senior Housing Finance Activity: Ziegler, Arbor, Cushman & Wakefield, Greystone

Ziegler Secures $145 Million for Emerald Communities’ Heron’s Key Ziegler, a specialty investment bank and one of the nation’s leading underwriters for not-for-profit senior living provider financing, secured $145 million in financing for Heron’s Key in Gig Harbor, Washington. Heron’s Key is “life care retirement community” that will hold 194 independent living units and 45 […]

Capital One Acquires $8.5 Billion GE Healthcare Unit

In a blockbuster deal involving two of the nation’s leading senior housing financing companies, Capital One Financial Corp. has reached an agreement to acquire GE Capital Healthcare Financial Services for approximately $9 billion, officials announced Tuesday. The acquisition, slated for completion in the fourth quarter of 2015, grants Capital One approximately $8.5 billion of health […]

Senior Housing Finance Activity: Lancaster Pollard, Walker & Dunlop

Lancaster Pollard Closes Over $136M Senior Housing Transactions in May  In May, Lancaster Pollard closed 21 seniors housing transactions totaling over $136 million. One of the transactions was a $23.5 million FHA Sec. 232 new construction loan for an assisted living/Alzheimer’s care facility in Virginia. Two of the transactions were FHA Sec. 232/241(a) expansion projects […]