Author: lazarus

Major facility equipment failures rarely occur out of nowhere. Typically, they are the consequence of long-delayed upkeep and inadequate financial foresight. When essential systems ultimately collapse, organizations are burdened with urgent repair co...

For buyers and financiers evaluating senior living or multifamily acquisitions, winter exposes risks that rarely appear in offering memoranda or historical operating statements. Buildings that perform acceptably during mild conditions can behave very...

Capital planning in senior living has always mattered, but today it carries far greater consequences. Communities built 15, 20, or even 25 years ago are entering a phase where multiple major systems age at the same time. At the same moment, construct...

Designing and delivering new senior living communities has become materially more complex. Rising construction costs, extended schedules, labor volatility, supply-chain disruption, and tighter capital markets have converged to narrow margins and comp...

Senior living development in 2026 presents both tremendous opportunity and significant risk. With senior housing occupancy ending 2025 at 89.1% and new supply still constrained (annual inventory growth around 0.7%), demand fundamentals are strong, bu...

The senior living acquisition market is experiencing unprecedented activity. Healthcare REITs deployed billions in 2024 and lifted investment targets for 2025, while smaller deals helped push senior living dealmaking to record levels in 2025. With $1...

How third-party consultation helps capital planning turn into real action—not a report that sits on a shelf. A story, in Brit Vipham’s words. Brit is the Director of Plant Operations at The Admiral at the Lake in Chicago. When people ask me abo...

Every facility manager knows the feeling: a critical system fails unexpectedly, residents are affected, and what should have been a planned replacement becomes an emergency expenditure that strains the annual budget. In a senior living community or m...