The June 17 webinar “2025 Seniors Housing Investment Outlook — Where Is Deal Velocity Now and Where Is It Headed?” sponsored by CBRE, convened a powerhouse panel of executives from across the investment, development, lending and operating landscape. The session delivered candid insights on the seniors housing market’s shifting terrain as panelists discussed capital market dynamics, operational challenges and forward-looking investment and development strategies. The webinar addressed critical questions facing the seniors housing sector as we move into the second half of 2025: Who’s investing? What capital is available? How …
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Webinar: Seniors Housing Shift — How Underwriting, Valuation, and Capitalization are Changing
The June 5 webinar “Seniors Housing Shift: How Underwriting, Valuation, and Capitalization Are Changing” brought together industry leaders to share insights on evolving investment strategies, lending dynamics and value trends across the seniors housing sector. Sponsored by Blueprint, the session offered expert commentary on a transforming market as operators and capital providers recalibrate while costs, occupancy, margins and interest rates stabilize. The panel examined shifts in underwriting assumptions, investor return expectations and the availability of both debt and equity capital. With a focus on market fundamentals and practical strategies, the …
Webinar — 2025 Seniors Housing Outlook: Investment, Valuations & Capital
The Dec. 12 webinar “2025 Seniors Housing Outlook — Investment, Valuations & Capital,” sponsored by CBRE, featured expert insight on issues shaping the seniors housing sector. The panel discussion covered investment outlooks, the impact of inflation, capital availability, labor stability and regulatory concerns. This webinar brought together industry leaders to discuss critical economic factors, value-based care and development opportunities in the ever-changing seniors housing landscape. The discussion offers a detailed analysis of operational challenges facing the sector, including rising insurance costs and regulatory headwinds. Before 2025 begins, learn more about …
For over two years, a persistent bid-ask spread between buyers and sellers of seniors housing properties prevented many deals from getting done. Seniors Housing Business (SHB) caught up with Brian Chandler, senior managing director and national practice leader for seniors housing for Raleigh, N.C.-based Partner Valuation Advisors. As an appraiser in the seniors housing and care sector, he is privy to in-progress deals months before closing, including transaction data. He says a growing number of buyers and sellers are agreeing to close transactions and shares more here. SHB: Some experts say a growing number …
With Seniors Housing Positioned for Growth, Financing Activity Begins to Stir
Slowly but surely, the performance of seniors housing assets is improving. While rent growth in 2022 in the sector represented a period of catch-up after the pandemic stymied the ability of operators to raise lease rates, continuing rent increases in 2023 began contributing to more meaningful net operating income recovery, according to Walker & Dunlop’s recently released Seniors Housing Outlook report. Now, seniors housing owners are positioned for a sustained period of significant revenue expansion amid improving occupancy and a shortfall of new inventory, reports the Bethesda, Maryland-based commercial real …
ATLANTA — Investment markets have been tumultuous over the past year, with high interest rates and inflation impacting the flow of debt and equity across the commercial real estate industry. Last year, many investors and brokers chose to weather the storm and try to make it to 2025, when it was estimated that interest rates would begin to moderate. Recently, however, conditions seem to be improving in the seniors housing sector, where many investors are leaving behind the “survive till 2025” strategy that defined 2023. Editor’s note: InterFace Conference Group, a …
By Bendix Anderson For more than two years, a persistent bid-ask spread between buyers and sellers of seniors housing has prevented many deals from getting done. Appraisers don’t expect a dramatic uptick in deal volume in the near term. “I’d love to see a big break in the dam, but at this point I expect more of a steady increase in the flow [of deals],” says Zach Bowyer, executive managing director and head of living sectors for Cushman & Wakefield, who is based in the firm’s Boston office. He is …
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A key performance metric helps explain why the active adult segment of seniors housing remains an investment darling. Among the nearly 800 properties and more than 116,000 units tracked nationally by NIC MAP Vision, the occupancy rate is 93 percent. By comparison, the occupancy rate for seniors housing properties (independent and assisted living) is in the high 80s. What makes that 93 percent occupancy even more significant is that it includes active adult properties that either recently opened or are in lease-up mode. “If you look at properties that …
Tempo of Deal Velocity Increases as Industry Enters Homestretch of 2024
By Matt Valley Following a quiet end-of-summer period on the dealmaking front — “quieter than it has been for years with the exception of the pandemic” — Sabra Health Care REIT Chief Investment Officer Talya Nevo-Hacohen encountered a flurry of transaction activity in late August and early September. “It’s been gangbusters, and what we’re seeing is primarily seniors housing assets (independent living and assisted living) coming to market,” said the veteran REIT executive who participated in the webinar Seniors Housing Business hosted on Sept. 5, titled “Creating Value in Seniors Housing — …
Webinar: Creating Value in Seniors Housing — The Economics of Dealmaking in This Cycle
The Sept. 5 webinar “Creating Value in Seniors Housing — The Economics of Dealmaking in This Cycle,” sponsored by CBRE, brought together industry leaders to discuss the current trends shaping the seniors housing market, including occupancy rates, strategic investments and the evolving landscape of assisted living, memory care and independent living communities. This discussion covered innovative technologies, economic factors influencing cap rates, considerations about the future of care and analysis of increasingly sophisticated operations strategies. Expert panelists shared their experiences and projections for the sector, including the increasing demand for seniors housing …