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Your Caregiver Team Includes the Building Itself

by Sarah Daniels June 12, 2023

While seniors housing operators grapple with occupancy issues, labor challenges and margin squeeze, the building’s role within the industry is sometimes overlooked. But innovative building design and new technologies can help improve staff efficiency, optimize resident care and increase revenue. “The senior living industry is evolving,” says Gaurie Rodman, vice president of real estate strategy and development at Direct Supply, a provider of equipment and services to the senior living and healthcare industries. “Buildings are taking on a role beyond shelter.” New building designs are being created through an efficiency …

June 12, 2023

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Disrupted Lending Environment Reveals FHA Opportunity

by Sarah Daniels June 5, 2023

Seniors housing owners that stabilized their properties after the pandemic are now faced with a new challenge: a spike in interest rates and a disrupted lending environment. The challenge arrives at a time when many borrowers need capital for maturing loans to escape variable-rate debt or to finance growth. The good news is that loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) remain available and are giving eligible borrowers an attractive solution, say Lee Delaveris and John Randolph, seniors housing and healthcare specialists at KeyBank Real Estate Capital. Available in …

June 5, 2023

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Five Tips on How to Leverage Data and Analytics

by Sarah Daniels April 10, 2023

State-of-the-art software tools can improve operational efficiency, enhance resident outcomes and boost the bottom line. What can you utilize that has a positive impact on both residents and business results? Data and analytics. With real-time information on performance, senior care executives and clinicians can identify and overcome roadblocks to success. New improvements in the use of data and analytics are helping to guide decision-making. Data mining can boost staff efficiency and profitability. At the same time, data entry is becoming faster and easier. Software tools with the latest graphics make …

April 10, 2023

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Webinar: Meeting the Critical Need for Affordable Seniors Housing

by Sarah Daniels February 22, 2023

The Feb. 15 webinar “Meeting the Critical Need for Affordable Seniors Housing” focused on challenges and strategies for addressing resident needs while keeping costs down in the affordable seniors housing segment. This endeavor is no easy task in an environment where labor and staffing prices, construction costs and interest rates make calculations unwieldy. Three expert panelists discussed helpful programs, essential tax credits and successful case studies to light the way to affordable seniors housing. “We know that there’s a wave of 73 million baby boomers reaching an age …

February 22, 2023

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Steps to Help Small Seniors Housing Owners Prepare for a Sale

by Sarah Daniels November 1, 2022

The seniors housing market has had its fair share of well-documented struggles, including plunging occupancies during COVID-19 and continuing labor challenges. Like the rest of the commercial real estate market, the sector is now confronting higher interest rates and recession. Despite those headwinds, investor demand for seniors housing assets remains strong, says Dawn Davis, an advisor specializing in seniors housing and skilled nursing with NAI Greywolf in Milwaukee. But sellers are only now grudgingly coming to terms with the fact that, because capital has become more expensive, the price buyers …

November 1, 2022

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Seniors Housing Grinding through Difficult Environment, But Hints of Recovery Emerge

by Sarah Daniels September 27, 2022

The health of seniors housing occupancy continues to recover, albeit slowly, amid challenges that refuse to relent. Rather than a one-two punch, the sector has absorbed a one-two-three combination: Occupancy-reducing COVID landed the first blow, labor shortages and inflating operational expenses delivered the second, and rising interest rates scored with the third, declares Charlie Shoop, a senior vice president with KeyBank’s healthcare group. A slumping economy may add a kick to the teeth for good measure. “There is a lot of noise in seniors housing financials right now, and few …

September 27, 2022

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Seniors Housing, Skilled Nursing Properties Regain Traction Inch by Inch

by Sarah Daniels September 8, 2022

It could be argued that the last 30 months have presented the seniors housing and skilled nursing industries with their most adverse operating environment ever. Heading into 2023, at least some difficulties appear to be abating. Seniors housing occupancy rates continue to improve, reaching 81.4 percent in June this year, which was an improvement of 90 basis points over the March figure, according to the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing and Care (NIC). That was also 340 basis points higher than the time series low of 78 percent recorded …

September 8, 2022

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Higher Capital Costs are Latest Jolt to Seniors Housing Sector

by Sarah Daniels July 20, 2022

As if seniors housing developers and operators did not have enough difficulties rebounding from the pandemic, what with constrained occupancy, elevated expenses and staffing shortages plaguing the sector, they are now navigating an environment where the rising cost of capital is limiting their financial flexibility. While the 10-Year Treasury yield has retraded about 50 basis points from its recent peak of nearly 3.5 percent in mid-June, it is still twice as high as it was at the beginning of the year. Likewise, the secured overnight financing rate (SOFR) has shot …

July 20, 2022

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Unitranche Loans Offer Competition with Debt Funds

by Sarah Daniels July 12, 2022

Unitranche loan programs blend senior and junior debt pricing and terms into a single, first lien debt facility — a single financing that replaces the multitranche debt approach. The unitranche arrangement provides the benefits of a fully levered mezzanine debt structure, while the single financing structure streamlines the agreement and costs for borrowers. KeyBank Real Estate Capital, the commercial real estate business unit of KeyCorp, recently partnered with Welltower to establish a unitranche loan program with $750 million in lending capacity for seniors housing and skilled nursing facilities. Industry expertise …

July 12, 2022

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Outsourced HR Meets the Challenges of Senior Living Staffing

by Sarah Daniels June 22, 2022

Due to the nature of their clientele, senior living operators continually need to market their services to attract prospective new residents. But it’s not just new residents that they need to attract: it’s new employees as well. For the reality is that the senior living market faces some of the highest employee turnover rates in the service industry: upwards of 50 percent annually. Multiple factors are the culprit, including lower-than-average salaries, the difficulties of working with an aging and often high-acuity population, as well as few perceived opportunities for advancement, …

June 22, 2022

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