On September 28th, the Community Connections tour will feature four affordable senior apartment properties funded by the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program and opened in 2011: Yale Station Apartments, Chafee Park, Dahlia Square, and Creekside West. The tour will last all day and include great lunch, snacks and networking too! Elisabeth Borden from The Highland Group will be on board with the tour guide microphone to provide project and market overviews. Sign up now at www.leadingagecolorado.org.

LeadingAge Colorado’s Bus tours – extreme makeovers and new affordable apartments

Want an easy and fun way to see what others are doing to renovate aging properties and see the newest senior apartments?  LeadingAge Colorado (formerly Colorado Association of Homes and Services for the Aging) is offering two bus tours of senior properties. On August [...]

How does your community stack-up in your market area when shopped against your real competition?  After having conducted resident focus groups, lost lead surveys, and competitor reviews for more than 75 properties, we have identified seven critical questions each property should answer about itself on a regular basis:

Who are your true competitors – [...]

Genworth Financial has just released 2011 rates for all states and by key areas within states. This table includes rates posted for Denver, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Grand Junction, and Colorado statewide, and provides a comparison to the U.S. rates.

In its Z-News publication http://www.ziegler.com/contact/ from April 8, 2011, Ziegler Capital focused on the slowing of investment in the renovation of older senior communities, reporting that many “…senior living providers are not maintaining a sufficiently robust investment in their communities to overcome the aging of their real estate assets.”  Ziegler further reported that “…renovation/expansion new [...]