With Strategy Shift Underway, Omega Healthcare Leadership Sees ‘Resilient’ Opportunity in Senior Living 

Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE: OHI) continues to expand its senior housing operating portfolio (SHOP) as the company sees further growth opportunities in senior living.  In the second quarter, the Hunt Valley, Maryland-based real estate investment trust (REIT) completed $58 million in senior living investments, made up of $43 million for a three-community portfolio in Rhode […]

Senior Housing Operating Growth Strategies Lend Stability to Industry REITs

Senior housing REITs have more stable credit lines thank to their strategies of building new senior housing operating platforms.  That analysis is from Fitch Ratings, which compared CareTrust REIT (NYSE: CTRE), National Health Investors (NYSE: NHI), Sabra Healthcare REIT (NYSE: SBRA) and Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE: OHI). The ratings agency scored the four REITs similarly across a number of factors, with each […]

Omega Healthcare CEO Pickett to Retire in Planned Leadership Transition 

Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE: OHI) CEO Taylor Pickett is stepping down from his post on Oct. 1 and current President Matthew Gourmand is ascending to the CEO role. Omega on May 21 announced the leadership transition in conjunction with the planned retirement of Pickett, who also is stepping down from the board of directors upon […]

Speed to Deal: REITs Dominate Off-Market Landscape for Senior Living M&A

This story is part of your SHN+ subscription Senior living REITs are using their scale and relationships to notch off-market acquisitions while new development remains tough to pencil. In the first quarter of 2026, Welltower (NYSE: WELL) sourced 37 of its 41 transactions in off-market arrangements, while approximately two-thirds of Ventas’ (NYSE: VTR) $1.7 billion […]

Omega Leadership Sees Plenty to Buy as Competition for Deals Heats Up 

Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE: OHI) is expanding its senior housing portfolio in 2026, with an eye on value-add communities. The company’s leaders see plenty more to buy despite more competition for those assets. The Hunt Valley, Maryland-based real estate investment trust (REIT) in the first quarter of the year acquired one senior housing community in […]

Omega Healthcare Investors Keeps Eye on RIDEA With ‘Strong’ Senior Housing Deal Pipeline

Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE: OHI) is continuing to increase its investments in senior living, including in its growing senior housing operating portfolio. The Hunt Valley, Maryland-based real estate investment trust (REIT) in 2025 completed its first REIT Investment Diversification and Empowerment Act (RIDEA) structure purchase. Of the $1.1 billion in investments it made throughout the […]

Best Building Renovation of 2025: Historic Hotel in D.C. Revived as Luxury Senior Living 

A historic hotel that once hosted Washington, D.C.’s elite and powerful is now a luxury senior living community thanks to a renovation project that updated the building while maintaining its character. In 2021, Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE: OHI) and its operating partner, Maplewood Senior Living, announced the expansion of the company’s SHN Architecture and Design […]

Omega Keeps Eye On Senior Living After Big Skilled Nursing Deal

Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE: OHI) anticipates that 2026 will include “a decent amount of” U.S.-based senior living transaction opportunities “predominantly in a non-triple-net [lease] format,” according to Chief Investment Officer Vikas Gupta. Gupta made the comments during Friday’s third-quarter earnings call. Omega completed $1.1 billion in new deals year-to-date in 2025 including skilled nursing and […]

Senior Living Dealbook: BWE Originates $35M Loan; Sonida Purchases Dallas Community 

Transactions Sonida purchases Dallas community for $15.6M Sonida Senior Living has closed on a Dallas-Fort Worth senior living community for $15.6 million. According to a press release, the purchasing price was “a significant discount to replacement cost.” The transaction was funded with cash on hand. The acquisition brings Sonida’s Texas portfolio up to 21, with […]