• Newmark Closes Class-A Deal in Denver

    by | Apr 24, 2024 8:44 am | Acquisitions

    A new seniors housing community traded in the Denver, Colorado MSA, with the help of the team at Newmark. Developed in 2017, MorningStar at RidgeGate is located in the suburb of Lone Tree within the Ridgegate master plan that features retail, cultural amenities and a 284-bed hospital nearby. The property comprises five stories over subterranean... Read More »

  • Public REIT Purchases Texas Class-A Seniors Housing

    by | Apr 23, 2024 3:56 pm | Acquisitions

    Blueprint was engaged in the divestment of a Class-A seniors housing community in San Antonio, Texas. Built in two phases in 2011 and 2017, Franklin Park TPC Parkway comprises 269 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. Following the completion of a six-year freeway expansion project that affected leasing, access to the... Read More »

  • Eads Sells Its 24th & 25th Missouri Community

    by | Apr 23, 2024 3:54 pm | Acquisitions

    Patrick Byrne of Eads Investment Brokerage facilitated the divestment of two seniors housing communities in Missouri. This marks the 24th and 25th communities sold in Missouri for Eads. The Moberly community (which we believe to be Mark Twain Assisted Living) comprises 35 assisted living/independent living units and sold for $2.57 million, or... Read More »

  • 60 Seconds with Swett: CMS Raises the Minimum Staffing Mandate

    by | Apr 23, 2024 3:48 pm | 60 Seconds

    On Monday, CMS came out with its final minimum staffing standards for nursing homes, but the eventual outcome is anything but final. Despite the outcry from nursing home providers from the previous proposed mandate of three hours per resident per day, asking simple questions like how can we pay for this and where will this newly needed staff come... Read More »

  • More Shareholder Activism

    by | Apr 22, 2024 9:04 am | Opinion

    Fresh from its success in getting two people voted onto the Ventas Board of Directors, Land & Buildings is at it again, this time with National Health Investors. Like all the REITs, NHI’s managers and tenants had their share of problems during the pandemic. Who didn’t? Most of these issues are behind it, but the REIT could be in even stronger... Read More »
Brookfield Bets Big on Australian Seniors Housing Market

Brookfield Bets Big on Australian Seniors Housing Market

by | Aug 23, 2019 6:01 am | Acquisitions

Looking outside of the U.S. seniors housing market, it’s obvious that the sector is a popular target in markets around the world. Just look at Ventas’ doubling down on the Canadian seniors housing market with its C$2.4 billion portfolio acquisition of 31 retirement communities in Quebec earlier this summer, nearly doubling its portfolio from 41 properties to 76, with the NOI of those properties expected to make up 21% of its entire SHOP NOI. For them, Canada has been a very good performer. Australia has attracted the interest of Canadian investment fund Brookfield, which is spending A$1.27 billion ($860 million), on Aveo, a Sydney-based company that owns and operates 94 retirement... Read More »