Q: Is Senior Citizen Housing A Good Real Estate Investment? Ernie, Pittsburgh, PA A: Good question, Ernie, but I would caution you not to generalize about broad real estate market niches. I understand that many investors, institutional and private investors have become interested in senior housing because of the powerful lure of an aging baby boomer population. I know some investors who have both made and lost money building and investing in over 55 communities. There are many factors that make a real estate investment sound and demographic trends are certainly one of them, but but you have to look further. You have to look at supply, demand, building and labor costs if you are building as well as cost […]
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