As market conditions begin to improve and capital sources become increasing more available seniors housing development projects are starting to take shape. As projects move ahead the importance of hiring skilled and specialized development team members is crucial in order to achieve success.

Capital is expected to shift towards seniors housing.  Lenders, investors and other real estate participants continue to appreciate the need based element of seniors housing, and the industry’s ability to be vastly more recession proof then other real estate sectors and the stock market. Wall Street should never invest in single family housing ever to the degree that resulted in the prelude to the “Great Recession”. In the ramp up there were enormous sums of capital chasing too few good investments.

Rightly so, senior housing could become an increasingly more desirable investment destination and a vastly superior alternative to investing in non-income producing real estate assets. The freeing of capital and allocation into the seniors housing sector will result in other challenges. Not all locations should have a seniors housing project and not all developers should try to build one. Identifying where to build, what to build and who should be involved as capital becomes increasingly more available takes a prudent industry consultant. Tranquilium can serve in this role to advance success seniors housing development projects.