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InterFace Panel: Developers Must Get Creative in Sourcing Financing, Changing Up Product Mix

by Jeff Shaw

ATLANTA — Charlie Jennings, chief development officer with Vero Beach, Fla.-based Harbor Retirement Associates, said he would challenge the “Stay alive until ‘25” mantra that some real estate professionals are touting amid today’s economic uncertainty. The phrase is a play on the late billionaire investor Sam Zell’s remarks amid the downturn in 1991 when he coined the mantra “Stay alive until ’95.” “I do not agree with that at all; that insinuates that we’re just going to sit on our hands as an industry and wait for somebody else to …

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ASHA 50: Few Changes in 2023 as Transaction Volume Stays Low

by Jeff Shaw

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Seniors Housing Association (ASHA), in partnership with Seniors Housing Business, has released the 2023 edition of the ASHA 50, which ranks the 50 largest owners and operators in the U.S. seniors housing space. Based in Washington, D.C., ASHA is a trade association that advocates for and represents companies that develop, own, operate and finance seniors housing. The ASHA 50 rankings are based on self-reported portfolio sizes, ranked by total number of units, as of June 1, 2023. Data was also used from other reliable sources, …

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Mind the Gap(s): InterFace Panelists Highlight Divides in the Senior Living Industry and How to Bridge Them

by Jeff Shaw

ATLANTA — The demand metrics of seniors housing are extremely compelling, given the demographics of Americans aging into the product type. But that demand is not necessarily translating directly to occupancy at senior living properties.  This disparity between leads and move-ins is just one of the gaps that the panelists highlighted throughout the “Power Panel” at France Media’s InterFace Seniors Housing Southeast conference that touched on marketing, generational differences and family expectations.  Hosted Aug. 16 at the Westin Buckhead in Atlanta, the panel offered insight into the state of the …

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Operators Streamline Tech, Sales Processes to Accelerate Industry’s Recovery

by Jeff Shaw

ATLANTA — As the seniors housing sector continues its long, slow recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, it can help to look at what the fastest operators to recover are doing right now. That said, as occupancy stays well below historical averages and expenses stay high, especially for labor, there is no quick-fix solution. “These changes don’t take place overnight,” said Jennifer Dixon, CEO of JD Solutions Group. “It takes planning and preparation to see the fruits of that labor.” Dixon made her comments during a panel she moderated at France …

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Seniors Housing Transaction Activity Will Not Return to Normal Levels This Year, Says InterFace Panel

by Jeff Shaw

ATLANTA — One of the central questions of the investment panel at InterFace Seniors Housing Southeast was: Will transaction activity return in the fourth quarter? When Brooks Blackmon, panel moderator and executive managing director of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors, asked the question, there was a quick response from the panel — “no.” “Return to what?” asked Kelly Sheehy senior managing director of Artemis Real Estate Partners. “Higher than today? Yes. Compared to 2019? No, it’s going to take time.” InterFace Seniors Housing Southeast is an annual conference hosted by …

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Senior Living Capacity is Outgrowing Demand; Here’s How to Fill Beds Anyway

by Jeff Shaw

By Jennifer Apy, Partner, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Outsiders The pandemic of 2020 hit hardest among the most vulnerable. It was a tragic season of devastation, fear and uncertainty among the elderly population, and it presented an unforeseen crisis for the senior living facilities that supported them.  Three years later, in 2023, that industry is just barely recovering from the 30 percent decline in population. To further the problem, rising inflation is leading seniors to age in their homes — pushing the average move-in age to 87 years. Senior living facilities were …

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Webinar Panelists: Occupancy Landscape Improves, but High Interest Rates Continue to Stall Transactions

by Jeff Shaw

On its surface, now is a difficult time to be in seniors housing development or operations. Rising interest rates have made financing or refinancing challenging. Occupancy rates, while improving, are still well below pre-pandemic levels. Expenses have increased dramatically, particularly for labor, while rent increases haven’t been able to keep up. JP LoMonaco, now an appraiser with CBRE after the company bought his former appraisal firm Valuation & Information Group in June, notes that the work he does reflects the tough times. “We saw a sudden shift from new loan …

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Investor Survey: Seniors Housing Cap Rates on the Rise, Likely to Continue

by Jeff Shaw

DALLAS — The Seniors Housing & Care Investor Survey, conducted each year by Dallas-based CBRE Research, shows that capitalization rates are on the rise, and many expect that trend to continue. The survey focuses on rapidly changing market conditions due to inflation, staffing shortages and rising interest rates. CBRE’s methodology and pool of respondents was not disclosed with the survey results. The average seniors housing capitalization rate increased by 26 basis points year over year, and survey respondents view assets with the lowest cap rates as those most negatively impacted …

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Webinar: Seniors Housing Success Stories — Companies that are Rising Above the Headwinds

by Sarah Daniels

  The June 29 webinar “Seniors Housing Success Stories — Companies that are Rising Above the Headwinds“ focused on what leading seniors housing firms are doing to alter their businesses, streamline operations, increase occupancy and strategize in terms of deal volume and investment. Industry difficulties, including labor shortages, inflation and interest rates, have highlighted the need for expertise and well-informed approaches to the seniors housing sector recovery. Click to watch this hour-long discussion that considers both operations and trends in transaction activity. See how strategies and outlooks have shifted since last …

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NIC: Occupancy Rose 60 Basis Points in Second Quarter for Eighth Consecutive Increase

by Jeff Shaw

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The occupancy rate for private-pay seniors housing rose 60 basis points to 83.7 percent in the second quarter of 2023, according to data from NIC MAP Vision. It is the eighth consecutive quarter where occupancy has increased as the industry continues to recover from impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The occupancy number is a 590 basis point increase over the pandemic low of 77.8 percent in second-quarter 2021, but still short of the pre-pandemic mark of 87.1 percent in first-quarter 2020. NIC MAP Vision is a product …

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