Editor’s Picks: Southwest Airlines and Iris Apfel

This week, Senior Housing News readers learned how the current population of people 40 and older feel about senior living, why a major senior living operator idolizes Southwest Airlines and how to use social media to advance as a senior living provider. Also, SHN will be observing Memorial Day on Monday, May 30. We’ll resume […]

Senior Housing Finance Activity: NHI, Capital Funding

NHI Announces $14 Million Construction Mezzanine Loan National Health Investors, Inc. (NYSE: NHI), a real estate investment trust (REIT) specializing in sale-leaseback, joint-venture, mortgage and mezzanine financing of need-driven and discretionary senior housing and medical investments, has entered into a construction mezzanine loan commitment with its tenant, Senior Living Communities, LLC (SLC), for the development of […]

Brookdale Tops List of 2013’s Largest Senior Living Providers

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE:BKD) is the nation’s largest senior living provider for the second year running, according to the Assisted Living Federation of America’s (ALFA) annual list. The publicly-traded senior living company has a total resident capacity of 64,354 beds among 647 properties split mostly between independent and assisted living, along with around […]