Sabra Health Care REIT and Care Capital Properties Combine in $7.4 Billion Merger

Two major players in the senior care space have decided to join forces. Senior housing owner Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBRA) and former “pure play” skilled nursing real estate investment trust (REIT) Care Capital Properties, Inc. (NYSE: CCP) will combine in an all-stock merger, the companies announced Sunday. The resulting health care REIT, which […]

Senior Housing REITs to Feel the Impact of Rate Hikes in 2017

As expected, the Federal Reserve updated its policy to effectively raise short-term interest rates Tuesday, and said it will impose as many as three rate hikes in 2017. Senior housing real estate investment trusts (REITs) saw swift losses, despite the decision coming as no surprise. Fortunately, the impact of the announcement is unlikely to negatively impact […]

Under Pressure, REITs Back Off Skilled Nursing

Payment reforms have made their sting across the health care industry, with the skilled nursing market taking a hit. And some of the senior housing industry’s biggest real estate owners of skilled nursing properties have started reducing their portfolio exposure in the asset class as a result. Despite the shift in the attractiveness of skilled […]

Editor’s Picks: Welltower’s $1.15 Billion Buy

It’s earnings season, and the message is clear—acquisitions and dispositions are back in a big way. This week, we clued our readers into Welltower’s massive new senior housing portfolio acquisition on the West Coast and Sabra’s plans to offload a serious chunk of skilled nursing change. Here in the newsroom, we were keeping up with […]

Senior Housing Investments & Transactions: HFF, NHI

HFF Closes Sale of Seniors Housing Community in Florida Dallas-based Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P. (HFF) announced it has closed the sale of a seniors housing community in Melbourne, Florida, called Sonata at Melbourne. HFF marketed the community on behalf of the seller. Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors, a real estate private equity investor in off-campus student […]

3 Lessons for a Firmer Grasp of Skilled Nursing Risks

At the outset of the year, it appeared investors might find skilled nursing sexy again in 2016. One quarter in, skilled nursing is garnering a lot of attention, but some investors are attracted while others appear to be rejecting these assets as too risky. At least, that’s judging by questions asked and some heated discussions […]

Editor’s Picks: Driving Move-Ins, Slashing Hospitalizations

This week, Senior Housing News readers discovered where and how providers can most effectively target their marketing to drive move-ins, courtesy of CWI Associates. Readers also learned about a rapid recovery center that feels more like a hotel than an institutional care facility, REITs’ oversupply concerns, and a pilot program that led to Brookdale Senior Living […]

Senior Housing REITs Send Mixed Signals on Oversupply

Discussion around oversupply in senior housing is nothing new, including back and forth about the reality of the situation. There still is no clear consensus regarding oversupply concerns in the year ahead as health care real estate investment trusts (REITs) report their earnings for the fourth quarter of 2015. Chicago-based Ventas Inc. (NYSE: Ventas) set the stage for […]

NIC to Report Actual Senior Housing Rents

Several of the country’s largest health care real estate investment trusts (REITs) and major lenders have offered their support for a new initiative to track and report seniors housing actual rents, the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) announced Wednesday. The initiative makes NIC the first to collect and report such data, […]