Senior living professionals are more confident in the viability of the traditional continuing care retirement community (CCRC)/life plan community model today than they were before the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the picture is complicated by the fact that many industry pros believe that entrance-fee communities are less attractive today than they were in 2019. That’s according […]
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LTC Properties (NYSE: LTC) granted roughly $3.7 million in deferred, abated and reduced rent in the first four months of this year. The Westlake Village, California-based real estate investment trust (REIT) also has agreed to provide rent deferrals and abatements of up to $721,000 for both May and June of this year. In Dec. 2020, […]
In the first three months of the year, U.S. senior occupancy fell to a new record-low level, of 78.8%. That occupancy rate was 1.8 percentage points lower than in Q4 2020 and 8.7 percentage points lower than a year prior, according to NIC MAP Vision data released Thursday. Assisted living occupancy was even lower, hitting […]
With senior living occupancy lower than he’s ever seen it due to Covid-19, National Health Investors (NYSE: NHI) President and CEO Eric Mendelsohn has had to become a more empathetic leader — while still safeguarding NHI’s business and securing its future But Mendelsohn is feeling more optimistic than he was during the last earnings call […]
National Health Investors (NYSE: NHI) has extended additional rent deferrals to Bickford Senior Living, and executives with the real estate investment trust (REIT) are keeping their options open in terms of further tenant support given the unpredictable nature of Covid-19. “We’re unwilling — so to speak — to make long-term decisions at what we hope […]
“We won’t go back to the way we were. The new normal will not be the old normal.” These words were spoken last week by Beth Mace, chief economist at the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC). But, it was a sentiment that many people have been expressing over the past month, […]
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The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked what one analyst is calling a “Great Reset” — and the result has been topsy-turvy for the senior living industry. Investor sentiment may be shifting against senior housing in favor of the once-shunned skilled nursing sector. Related, the pandemic is helping some senior housing owners that have been working for […]
Publicly traded senior housing owners and operators begin reporting their Q1 2020 earnings next week, but these financial results will be essentially irrelevant due to Covid-19. Analysts, investors and senior living professionals hope that the earnings reports and comments from executive teams will provide a clearer sense of Covid-19’s effects on the industry and what […]
Senior housing-related stocks fell sharply on Thursday amid a dramatic market plunge tied to coronavirus fears. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 10% at market close, in the worst drop for the index since “Black Monday” in 1987. The Nasdaq composite was down 9.4% at the close. Several senior housing-related stocks fell even more […]