The key to understanding mobile home park investing is to look at the raw power of affordable housing and how it relates to today’s consumer. The household income for 20% of all Americans is under $20,000. That’s 60 million people...
The long-in-the-making decline of department stores has been forcing regional mall firms to search for alternative anchors for years. In the past decade, big-box stores, restaurants, discounters and other large space users have all popped up as...
As U.S. chain retailers absorb the lessons of the Great Recession, many big-box chains have started to shrink average store footprints to reflect the growing importance of multi-channel shopping, adapt to urban settings and recognize the need to...
Deaconess Long Term Care Inc. has sold 11 of its facilities in Missouri to affiliates of Platinum Health Care LLC for $27.2 million in an all-cash deal. Consisting of 852 licensed skilled nursing beds and 128 assisted living beds, the portfolio...
That three-letter acronym many hotel owners loathe to hear, PIP, or property improvement plan, has come out of hibernation. With the net operating income of the average U.S. hotel expected to rise 10.9% this year, according to PKF Hospitality...
Benchmark Senior Living, New England’s largest assisted living provider, has signed a definitive agreement to form an $890 million partnership with Health Care REIT (NYSE: HCN). The partnership will include 34 Benchmark senior housing communities...
Polychlorinated biphenyls, known as PCBs, are man-made organic chemicals manufactured in the United States from 1929 until they were banned in 1979 because of indications that they cause cancer and have other serious health consequences. ...
The success of a business model often depends on current economic conditions. Take, for example, Erickson Retirement Communities of Catonsville, Md. The company built a number of large-scale continuing care projects when capital was readily avail...
