seniors' housing

Alberta moves to regulate life lease housing

Canadian Apartment Magazine

Alberta moving to regulate life lease housing

Proposed amendments to Alberta’s Consumer Protection Act will add a new section pertaining to life lease housing to establish rules for what contracts must contain.
Lawrence Heights

Canadian Apartment Magazine

Student and seniors housing prospects in favour

A survey of top executives in the student and seniors housing sectors finds most are planning to expand their portfolios in 2023 through acquisitions and new development.
Seniors housing portfolio trades

Canadian Apartment Magazine

Seniors housing portfolio trades

H & H Total Care Services has sold an eight-building seniors housing portfolio in western Canada for more than $300 million.
Seniors' facilities get specially tailored benchmarking tool

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Green scorecard planned for seniors’ facilities

Long-term care homes and retirement residences in Ontario are getting an environmental performance benchmarking tool specially tailored for seniors’ facilities.
retirement platform

Canadian Apartment Magazine

Sienna Living launches new retirement platform “Aspira”

In a recent operations update, Sienna Living announced plans to launch a new retirement platform called “Aspira” in late 2021 or early 2022.
Mission Unitaînés

Canadian Apartment Magazine

Rising vacancies in seniors’ housing continues

Vacancy rates in seniors' housing are rising in all provinces except Newfoundland and Labrador, according to a new report from CMHC.
AdvantAge Ontario

Canadian Apartment Magazine

AdvantAge Ontario research backs seniors’ “campuses of care”

Newly released research from AdvantAge Ontario sheds a positive light on a model of senior care, known to the sector as "campuses of care".
Chartwell retirement

Canadian Apartment Magazine

Chartwell issues update on impacts of COVID-19

Canada's largest owner and operator of senior living residences issued a statement addressing the impacts of COVID-19 on tenants, families and staff.

REMI Network

Invesque to acquire Commonwealth Senior Living

The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to close in the third quarter of 2019.
retirement

Canadian Apartment Magazine

Low-income seniors housing opens in Saskatchewan

The Government of Canada and the Province of Saskatchewan, along with the City of Humboldt and Stewart Properties, announced the completion of a new low income seniors housing community in Humboldt.

Canadian Apartment Magazine

Chartwell unveils plans for Guildwood retirement residence

CHARTWELL Retirement Residences and Welltower Inc. announced plans for a new residence located within the historic Guildwood neighbourhood of Scarborough.
senior amenities

Canadian Apartment Magazine

Services and amenities for aging Canadians

Planning to build a retirement home? CMHC recommends developers consider the following key factors before investing in on-site services and amenities.
Penguin Pick-up

Canadian Apartment Magazine

SmartCentres, Penguin, Revera form partnership

SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust, the Penguin Group of Properties, and Revera Inc. recently announced that they are entering into a joint venture to develop new retirement living residences throughout Canada.
income and housing security

Canadian Apartment Magazine

Income and housing security top senior concerns

Canada's largest seniors' advocacy organization is prioritizing housing needs for different stages of aging among five key issues it plans to champion this year.
Chartwell

Canadian Apartment Magazine

New Chartwell residence coming to Oakville

Chartwell Retirement Residences has launched construction of Chartwell Waterford Retirement Residence, a new active-living retirement community in Oakville, Ontario.

Canadian Apartment Magazine

New retirement communities planned for Quebec

Réseau Sélection, the largest private-sector owner, operator, developer, builder and buyer of retirement residences in Quebec, announced it will invest $250 million toward the construction
retirement

Canadian Apartment Magazine

New and emerging trends in seniors housing

Older Canadians represent an increasingly important segment of the Canadian population for developers, organizations and property managers that provide housing. Not only will the number of Canadians over the age of 55 continue to increase over the next several decades, but this group possesses characteristics that are more diverse than any previous generation of seniors.