The housing industry is being pulled in different directions, as two of the largest age cohorts of our time—millennials and boomers—compete for urban accommodations.
While boomers control the vast majority of economic wealth in this country, millennial buyers now account for 36% of U.S. home purchases, compared with 34% of homes going to boomers, according to Dan DiClerico at the…
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Originally intended to help guide skilled nursing consumers and their families as they compare and monitor care across different facilities, CMS’ Five-Star Quality Rating System is increasingly being used by investors to identify which properties to invest in and how facilities within their existing portfolio are performing.
But evaluating a skilled nursing facility on its rating alone isn’t enough. For…
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The Labor Department reported that non-farm employment increased by 151,000 positions for the first month of 2016. The three-month average from November to January was 231,000. For all of 2015, jobs increased by an upwardly revised 2.7 million positions, the second strongest year since 1999. Moody’s Analytics expects comparable job gains in 2016, with roughly 200,000 positions generated per month.…
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The U.S. seniors housing and care property sales market continued to remain active in the fourth quarter of 2015, although preliminary data shows dollar volume slowed significantly during the second half of the year. During the fourth quarter of 2015, $2.8 billion in seniors housing and care properties sales closed, down from $3.3 billion in the third quarter and $4.4…
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Skilled nursing hasn’t escaped the sweeping changes affecting how health care is delivered and paid for in this country. But unlike the rest of the seniors housing and care industry, which has experienced a significant surge of capital, skilled nursing has received less investment dollars—even though the sector demonstrates a need, as it’s been affected by the policy and regulatory…
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