Welltower Posts Strong Senior Housing Revenue, Sells $290 Million StoryPoint Portfolio

Welltower’s (NYSE: WELL) senior housing portfolio performance drove strong earnings in the first quarter of 2019, which also included notable transactions such as the $290 million disposition of a triple-net leased portfolio operated by StoryPoint Senior Living. The Toledo, Ohio-based health care real estate investment trust (REIT) on Tuesday reported total revenue of 1.27 billion […]

Brookdale Reaches Late Innings of Portfolio Restructuring Efforts

To use a baseball analogy, Brookdale Senior Living’s (NYSE: BKD) portfolio restructuring strategy is now in the late innings, and President and CEO Cindy Baier is looking to her bullpen to hold a narrow lead. “I would say we’re at the seventh inning of our strategy,” Baier said during the Brentwood, Tennessee-based company’s Q3 earnings call […]

Welltower Takes Occupancy Hit in Challenging Senior Housing Environment

Welltower Inc.’s (NYSE: WELL) senior housing occupancy declined as expected in the first quarter of 2018, according to an earnings report published late on Wednesday. The Toledo, Ohio-based health care real estate investment trust (REIT) also announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Quality Care Properties (NYSE: QCP) in a $1.95 billion, all-cash transaction.  In […]

Execs See Steady Pace of Senior Housing M&A Ahead

Leaders in both senior living and skilled nursing are confident that the pace of mergers and acquisitions will hold steady or accelerate in the year ahead. More than 150 senior housing and health care company executives weighed in on the 12-month outlook for the industries as part of a new survey from Capital One, a financial holding […]

Senior Housing M&A Takes a Dive in Q2

Though senior housing transaction dollar volume has recently tumbled, some big mergers and acquisitions in the pipeline should cause it to rebound later this year, according to the preliminary data for the second quarter of 2017 from the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC). This quarter, $1.4 billion worth of senior care properties changed hands, […]

ROC Seniors Raises $737 Million for New Investment Fund

Fresh from raising $737 million in equity for a new investment fund, ROC Seniors Housing Fund Manager LLC already has acquired more than $1 billion worth of senior housing and medical health care properties within the last month, ROC Seniors CEO Robb Chapin tells SHN. The completed fund, ROC Seniors Housing and Medical Properties Fund 1, […]

Senior Housing Investments & Acquisitions: Diversicare, LCB Senior Living, HCN

Diversicare Announces Acquisition of Operations of 2 Ohio Properties Diversicare Healthcare Services, Inc. (NASDAQ:DVCR), a provider of long-term care services, recently announced the assumption of operations at two facilities in Ohio. The transaction includes a 142-bed skilled nursing facility in Avon, Ohio, and a 42-bed assisted living facility in Ontario, Ohio. These facilities are expected […]

Health Care REIT Posts Record Performance on Strong Operator Partnerships

Health Care REIT, Inc. (NYSE:HCN) Friday reported record-high operating results for the quarter ended June 30, 2014, attributing its performance to partnerships with best-in-class seniors housing and post-acute operators and strong regional health systems. The real estate investment trust completed a record quarter of earnings with normalized Funds from Operations (FFO) per share of $1.06, representing […]