Top Senior Housing Trends for 2024

A new year always brings new challenges and opportunities. In 2024, the senior living industry will have plenty of both. The senior living sector endured a hard year in 2023, starting with multiple stories of operators shutting down or in distress, and ending with assisted living being slammed in the recent Washington Post series. But […]

Welltower CEO: Debt Maturities Helping Create Best Investment Environment ‘We Have Ever Seen’

Welltower CEO Shankh Mitra has a lot on his plate at the tail-end of 2023. Welltower (NYSE: WELL) is gearing up to launch its in-house operating platform in Canada within the coming weeks with Cogir, which recently expanded its relationship with the Toledo, Ohio-based real estate investment trust (REIT). All the while, billions of dollars […]

Moneyball Approach to Trading Senior Living Operators Starts to Take Hold

For more than three decades, Watermark Retirement had never been replaced by a different management company. But times have changed. “We were replaced by Welltower on a few of our communities; but on the other hand, we’re being the replacer, going into some communities,” Watermark Chairman David Freshwater told me recently. Swapping management companies is […]

Welltower Sees Momentum on Margins as Self-Managed Platform Plans Become ‘More Tangible’

With strong senior housing portfolio performance in recent quarters, and plans to launch its self-managed operating platform later this year, leaders at Welltower (NYSE: WELL) expect momentum to carry the company forward in 2023. The Toledo, Ohio-based REIT reported total portfolio NOI growth of 11% compared with the first quarter in 2022, a result that […]

Welltower Touts Progress on Holiday by Atria Portfolio, Details CapEx Plans

Leaders with Welltower (NYSE: WELL) have shared progress and new improvement plans for the company’s legacy Holiday Retirement portfolio, now operating under the brand name Holiday by Atria. In 2021, Welltower bought 86 properties that Holiday Retirement formerly owned and self-managed in conjunction with Atria’s acquisition of the company’s management services. At the time, the […]

Welltower CEO: We ‘Strongly Believe’ Labor Market is Improving, RevPOR Increase Sets Record

Improvements in senior housing fundamentals for Welltower (NYSE: WELL) are creating a “strong setup for 2023,” according to CEO and Chief Investment Officer Shankh Mitra. Specifically, Welltower’s senior housing operators demonstrated historically strong pricing power in Q3 2022, and Mitra is even more excited about positive workforce trends. “We strongly believe the labor market is […]

Movers & Shakers: Oakmont Bolsters Executive Team; National Church Residences Names VP, Board Appointments

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Oakmont Culinary Leader: We’re Elevating Senior Living Dining for a New Generation of Residents

From evolving tastes to rising cost pressures due to lingering supply chain issues, the world of dining and culinary services in senior living is constantly changing. Few know that lesson better than Oakmont Management Group Vice President of Culinary Services Andrew Moret. As a new generation of older adults moves into senior living communities, they […]

Welltower CEO: ‘Mediocre’ Q2 Results Don’t Reflect Senior Housing Portfolio’s Long-Term Potential

Despite senior housing net operating income approaching pre-Covid levels in the second quarter of 2022, Welltower (NYSE: WELL) CEO Shankh Mitra sees those results as “mediocre at best.” But that is not because he believes the company’s senior housing partners did especially poorly during the quarter. Instead, he sees a much longer runway for unlocking […]

In The Pipeline: LCS Community Plans $56M Expansion, Frontier to Start on $36M community

In the Pipeline is brought to you by the Senior Housing News Architecture & Design Awards, an annual competition that recognizes cutting-edge design, excellence, and innovation in senior living. Construction: Planned LCS community marks $56M expansion Life Care Services’ Trillium Woods, a life plan community in Plymouth, Minnesota, recently announced a large expansion project representing […]