Ventas (NYSE: VTR) is seeing promising trends in its senior housing portfolio, but CEO Debra Cafaro is clear that her company and the economy as a whole are still captive to Covid-19. “We’re all prisoners of the virus,” Cafaro said Tuesday during a panel at Nareit’s REITweek Virtual Investor Conference. Chicago-based Ventas is a real […]
Executives with Ventas Inc. (NYSE: VTR) are reducing their salaries and the Chicago-based firm is cutting about a quarter of its corporate staff as part of an effort to maintain financial strength in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. The real estate investment trust (REIT) is one of the largest owners of senior housing properties […]
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 […]
Ventas (NYSE: VTR) saw its senior housing occupancy tumble in the first quarter of 2020 as a similar story played out across industry. But the company is hopeful that a new financial structure with one of its large tenants will help create value and preserve operational flexibility in its portfolio going forward. Like its other […]
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 […]
Real estate investment trusts (REITs) with significant exposure to senior housing could be facing a “sharp, prolonged deterioration in credit metrics,” rating agency Moody’s stated in a report issued Wednesday. In particular, these REITs run the risk of rent deferrals and other types of restructurings if shelter in place restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic […]
Senior living providers are working around the clock to address an increasing number of Covid-19 cases and prevent further infections — and these efforts come at a steep cost from a dollars-and-cents perspective. The industry as a whole is facing an adverse economic impact of between $40 billion and $57 billion over the next 12 […]
Capital Senior Living (NYSE: CSU) took another step toward stabilizing its balance sheet. Capital reached rent forbearance agreements with two of its real estate investment trust (REIT) landlords — Toledo, Ohio-based Welltower (NYSE: WELL) and Chicago-based Ventas (NYSE: VTR), the Dallas-based operator announced in an SEC Form 8-K filing on Monday. Additionally, Capital agreed to […]
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 […]
The rapid spread of Covid-19 is putting new communities at risk every day — and providers across the country should prepare for an outbreak near them sooner rather than later. As of Wednesday, almost 53% of roughly 33,000 U.S. senior housing and care communities in the U.S. are located in or adjacent to a county […]