One year ago, vaccine clinics were just getting underway in senior living communities, raising hopes for a better year ahead after the devastating toll exacted by Covid-19 in 2020. While Covid-19 vaccines have been a gamechanger for senior living providers, the quotes below reflect that 2021 presented plenty of daunting challenges, including unprecedented labor pressures. […]
For operators venturing into the middle market, margins are compressed and capital partners need to be mission-driven as well as financially driven. That’s according to Merrill Gardens President Tana Gall, who is blazing trails in the middle market with the company’s Truewood by Merrill platform. And there is still an opportunity for great returns, said […]
National Health Investors (NYSE: NHI) is in the midst of a transformation that company leaders believe will position the real estate investment trust for success in 2022. The Murfreesboro, Tennessee-based REIT is planning to pare down its portfolio managed by Bickford Senior Living, going from 42 communities as of Sept. 30 to 35 or 36. […]
Heading into the final three months of 2021, senior living providers, investors and developers face multiple perils. Occupancy gains have slowed in recent weeks while a labor crisis is worsening, and supply chain disruption continues to drive up construction costs. However, compared to where the industry was a year ago, the view in 2021 appears […]
National Healthcare Investors (NYSE: NHI) and American Healthcare Investors (AHI) have seen senior living occupancy backslide in recent weeks during the surge in Covid-19 cases related to the delta variant. However, leaders with the two companies are optimistic that the tide might be turning again. And, they anticipate that the fourth quarter of 2021 could […]
National Health Investors (NYSE: NHI) is seeking to sell nine properties operated by Holiday Retirement, with plans to potentially sell even more properties this quarter. The Murfreesboro, Tennessee-based real estate investment trust (REIT) has inked a non-binding letter of intent to sell the nine-property portfolio to an institutional buyer that is leased to Holiday with […]
When I learned that Atria Senior Living is acquiring Holiday Retirement, I thought back to April 2019. That month, I was at the event announcing the results of the NIC middle-market study. Much of the discussion focused on how new operating and financial models are needed to create middle-market senior housing at scale. I wondered […]
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 […]
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 […]
