Brookdale Senior Living Issues Occupancy Update
Brookdale Senior Living issued an occupancy update, and the results were positive, but a little muted. The good news is that the company saw occupancy grow 50 basis points from July to August after an 80-basis point increase from June to July. Brookdale does expect another sequential monthly occupancy gain in September 2021, but likely a more moderated rate. The company attributed this to potential residents and their families becoming more cautious or temporarily delaying their decision to move into seniors housing communities in certain areas, as a result of the Delta variant. That shouldn’t surprise many. As of September 22, 2021, approximately 97% of Brookdale’s communities... Read More »
Brookdale and Welltower See Occupancy Gains
Brookdale Senior Living and Welltower continue to show occupancy gains in their senior living portfolios. For both companies, the peak increase was from May to June, with Welltower’s SHOP portfolio posting a 120-basis point increase, while Brookdale was slightly lower at 100 basis points, based on month-end census numbers. Brookdale ended August at 73.7% while Welltower’s U.S. portfolio ended the month at 75.9%. While Brookdale has posted six straight months of occupancy increases, the rate of growth has been slowing since its peak increase. From June to July, month-end occupancy grew by 70 basis points, but from July to August the increase was just 40 basis points. In... Read More »
Brookdale Continues To Make Progress
The one thing that has been beneficial about COVID is the enhanced reporting by the public companies. By the time they release quarterly earnings results, they have already been issuing monthly updates, mostly on occupancy, so there is rarely much of a surprise. Such was the case with Brookdale Senior Living. On the occupancy front, average occupancy in the second quarter was 90 basis points higher than in the first quarter. While we would have liked to see a better gain, census was still declining in the first quarter and didn’t really flatten out until March/April on a weighted average basis. More impressively, month-end census has increased for five consecutive months starting in March.... Read More »
Brookdale Senior Living Census Jumps
The census problems at Brookdale Senior Living definitely bottomed out late in the winter of this year. Weighted average occupancy in both February and March was 69.4%, a level at which it is tough to make money. But that has increased by 180 basis points in June to 71.2%, still a low number but moving in the right direction. And it has increased for three straight months at a time when historically the industry sees little occupancy gains. Occupancy levels at the end of each month have done even better. These bottomed out in February at 70.1% and increased for four straight months, ended June at 72.6% for a 250-basis point increase in four months. Again, this is a time... Read More »Schedule a demo
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