In an earlier post, we discussed the recently announced merger between Omega Healthcare Investors and Aviv REIT. Merger and acquisition activity in senior housing has taken place at a rapid pace [...]
Boosted by strong demand for senior housing services and low interest rates, merger and acquisition activity in the sector is on a record setting pace this year. And now, one can add the recently [...]
Last week, the United States Commerce Department announced that the nation’s gross domestic product(GDP), the broadest measure of economic output, increased at an annual rate of 3.5 percent [...]
After six years in existence, the Federal Reserve announced last week that it was officially ending its quantitative easing bond buying program, QE3. QE3 was one of the stimulus measures that the [...]
Earlier this week the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee got together to discuss monetary policy and the timing of interest rate hikes. The Federal Reserve has kept its benchmark federal [...]
To date we have discussed how the Federal Reserve used its Beige Book and the slowdown in the global economy during its deliberations on future interest rate hikes. The timing and pace of these [...]
While members of the Federal Reserve continue to deliberate the timing of interest rate hikes behind closed doors, two members particular are increasingly making their views on this subject [...]
The global economy experienced a bit of a slowdown earlier this month. In addition to causing a decline in the stock market, the slowdown also affected the Federal Reserve’s deliberations on [...]
The Federal Reserve just released its October Beige Book summarizing economic conditions in the central bank’s twelve districts. The Beige Book is extremely important because it is one of the [...]
In recent articles we have discussed how a growing economy, occupancy gains, and rent increases are all helping to fuel a strong senior housing market. Industry participants are taking advantage [...]