HCP Starts Recovery After ‘Major Surgery’

After engaging in a “complex and multifaceted journey” to recovery, one of the biggest health care real estate investment trusts (REITs) has reached a turning point with its recent accomplishments and is ready to move forward. HCP Inc. (NYSE: HCP) completed its spinoff of Quality Care Properties (NYSE: QCP)— its skilled nursing assets with troubled tenant […]

Birth of a REIT: Taking Stock of HCP and Its Spin Off

The skilled nursing spin-off of real estate investment trust HCP Inc. (NYSE: HCP) officially has been completed and is set to begin regular trading on Nov. 1. While early trading will send some signals about what investors think of the spin-off, the success for Irvine, California-based HCP and its new entity, Quality Care Properties (QCP), will be determined […]

Senior Housing M&A Continues to Decline

Senior housing transaction volume continued to slow down in the third quarter of this year, following a sharp dip in the second quarter, according to recent data from the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC). Decreased activity among the majority of public real estate investment trusts (REITs) partly explains the downtrend, though less […]

Editor’s Picks: Welltower Completes $1.15 Billion Buy

This week, while temperatures dropped in the Windy City, our readers were hot on the latest happenings across the senior housing industry.  Readers wanted to know about a new entrant in the space with a multifamily background and how nonprofits are keeping up with the competition. Here in the newsroom, we were into the plans […]

HCP Starts Final Countdown to Spin-Off

HCP Inc. (NYSE: HCP) is confident that Halloween won’t be too spooky for the spin-off of its skilled nursing assets into a new real estate investment trust (REIT). HCP’s board of directors has approved the previously announced spin-off, which now is expected to occur on or about Oct. 31.  Shares of Quality Care Properties, Inc. (QCP) would […]

Senior Housing Investments & Transactions: Silverado, Welltower

Silverado Assumes Management of Welltower-Owned Community As part of Welltower Inc.’s (NYSE: HCN) $1.15 billion acquisition on the West Coast, Silverado assumed management and daily operations at The Berkshire-Vintage Senior Living Community on Sept. 16. The community has  been renamed Silverado Berkeley. Over the next several months, the community will gradually shift from an assisted living […]

Why the REIT Sector Could Get a $100 Billion Boost

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) have gained so much momentum as a major force in real estate, they are being put in their own sector in an important investment classification tool and could be in for a capital boost from all the attention. Following market close on August 31, equity REITs were reclassified as their […]

REITs Appear Ready to Drive Senior Housing Dealmaking Again

Senior housing real estate investments trusts (REITs) have pulled back their acquisition activity since the end of 2015, and transactions during the first six months of the year tanked as a result. However, rebounding share prices are returning the capital advantage to the biggest players in the industry, and may help deal volume pick up at […]

Senior Housing Hits Highest-Ever RIDEA Threshold

Have senior housing real estate investments trusts (REITs) reached their RIDEA max? We posed this question back in 2013, when RIDEA exposure already seemed at the high-end of its range. Evidently, the max exposure had not been reached, if recent transactions by the ‘Big Three’ health care REITs—Welltower Inc. (NYSE: HCN), Ventas Inc. (NYSE: VTR) […]

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 […]