Interview with R.J. DeBee of BBG Real Estate Services
Ben Swett, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, sat down with R.J. DeBee of BBG Real Estate Services to talk about the findings from BBG’s annual investor survey. DeBee shares his thoughts on what was surprising about the results and highlights the points he agrees with. You can view the survey results here. Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: See You in San Diego
By the time many of you are watching this, we’ll be in San Diego at the NIC Spring Conference, ready to catch up with our industry friends and hopefully meet a few new dealmakers, too. If you see me or my colleagues Steph Mallozzi and Ryan Marszalek in the hallways, please feel free to say hi and give us your thoughts on the current M&A, financing and development markets, and we’ll give you our opinions too. But if you aren’t going or are stuck in meetings all day, every day, then you’ll have a chance to hear takeaways from the conference plus see our latest proprietary seniors housing and care valuation statistics by tuning into our March 12th webinar at 1pm ET. Panelists JP LoMonaco,... Read More »The Best M&A Data: 30 Years and Counting
When you need reliable statistics on the senior care M&A market, there is only one place to go. LevinPro LTC. I am happy to report that we have just published the 30th Edition of our Senior Care Acquisition Report, which covers the seniors housing continuum as well as skilled nursing. Here you will find key price per unit and bed stats, cap rates, NOI per unit, state-by-state valuation metrics and much, much more. This year, we had a record number of transactions from which to pull the necessary financial data to bring you the most comprehensive report ever. Not only is it comprehensive, but it is the only one in the industry available to investors, lenders and operators, as no... Read More »
Seniors Housing Occupancy Hits New Post-Pandemic High
NIC released its latest seniors housing occupancy update for the 31 NIC Map Primary Markets, and fourth quarter 2024 census has hit another post-pandemic occupancy high. Overall seniors housing occupancy rose to 87.2%, up 70 basis points from 86.5% in the third quarter. Separated out by property type, majority-independent living properties were 88.6% occupied in Q4, and majority-assisted living properties were 85.7% occupied. While the Primary markets averaged 87.2%, the 99 Primary and Secondary markets combined averaged 87.7% and the remaining 41 markets to round out the 140 total markets that NIC tracks averaged 88.5%. Overall, occupancy was 87.8% for all 140 markets. The last time... Read More »
Brookdale Q3 Results Disappoint
Historically, and we are going back more than 12 years, the third quarter has been the best quarter of the year for occupancy increases, and usually cash flow increases based on those census jumps. This was certainly the case for Welltower and Ventas this year, the two largest owners of seniors housing communities. Unfortunately, Brookdale Senior Living, which continues to underperform the market and lags these two REITs, leaves investors disappointed and wondering what is wrong. And dare we say disillusioned with management’s forecasts, which have not panned out at all this year. Don’t get us wrong. Occupancy has increased, but not in the way investors expected, and “little” things like... Read More »Schedule a demo
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