SENIOR HOUSING AS A REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT

After slumping from over building in the late 1990s and 2000, senior housing investing is now experiencing a popular resurgence. With combined average per-unit prices for assisted living and independent properties jumping nearly 70 percent in 2005—to a record $145,700 per unit according to the latest Senior Care Acquisition Report from Irving Levin Associates—investors are rushing into the senior housing real estate market at a torrid pace. This strong demand for properties has led to unprecedented market gains for senior housing investors as upwards of $3.5 billion, and 24,000 units, changed hands for 2005.

The senior housing industry is now about equal in size to the hospitality lodging industry in terms of net operating incomes and real estate market values. Capitalization rates have come down from their once double-digit rates but still remain attractive at between 7 and 9 percent compared with other real estate classes, and current industry occupancy is now at around 90 percent.

With the 85-year and older population estimated by the Census Bureau to grow three times that of the U.S. population as a whole this decade, we believe senior housing is a superior choice for any diversified real estate investment portfolio.

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