This week, Senior Housing News Readers learned about the new name for continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) and delved into Brookdale Senior Living’s (NYSE: BKD) latest executive board appointments. Readers were also introduced to a new senior housing developer and discovered how asset prices have Welltower Inc. (NYSE: HCN) holding off on major deals. Here […]
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Constrained deal flow due to low cap rates and sky-high prices has been a recurring theme among senior housing real estate investment trusts (REITs) as they report their earnings for the third quarter of 2015. After Welltower Inc. (NYSE: HCN) stated that soaring price tags have sidelined the REIT on major deals, both LTC Properties Inc. (NYSE: […]
Earnings for Welltower Inc. (NYSE: HCN) for the third quarter reflect record-high funds from operations (FFO) and funds available for distribution (FAD), but soaring asset prices and fluctuating cap rates have the real estate investment trust holding off on major deals. “I think you’ve seen, if you just look at this quarter, our investment activity was […]
Senior housing providers across the country have found rebranding can fill long-standing vacancies and make their communities relevant again, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that more and more seem to be taking the plunge. Several high-profile name changes have already occurred within the past year, including The Assisted Living Federation of America (ALFA) […]
Welltower (NYSE: HCN) and Revera Inc. announced Monday the completion of the previously announced acquisition of Regal Lifestyle Communities Inc. (TSX: RLC) through an existing 75/25 joint venture. The transaction comes in at C$12 per share in cash, a total enterprise value of about C$764 million, or $581.51 million in U.S. dollars. The transaction was originally pegged at […]
This week, SHN readers became acquainted with Welltower, Inc., dove deeper into what fuels senior living move-ins, and learned about a new challenge to Fortress Investment Group. Here in the newsroom, we are intrigued by a saga involving a California assisted living facility and its wild pet duck. Most Read on SHN Health Care REIT’s […]