The global pandemic led to record low occupancy rates in the senior housing and nursing care sectors at the height of the crisis. While we are not back to peak levels, the tide started turning in 2021 and all signs show that the sector has endured the worst of the crisis.

Investors are returning to the sector because of strong market fundaments and recent polls show that they expect them to continue to improve throughout the year, according to Multi-Housing News. Even more investors indicated that they intended to increase their exposure in the senior housing sector in 2022.

As commercial real estate investors continue to seek out assets for growth, senior housing investment is set to thrive and long-term investment opportunities remain attractive.

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Commercial real estate continues to show steady signs on the road to recovery. According to a recently released forecast by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), overall commercial and multifamily mortgage borrowing in the U.S. is expected to hold steady at a projected $895 billion and be in line with 2021 totals ($891 billion).

MBA also anticipates both borrowing and lending to increase in 2023, with almost $950 billion in commercial real estate lending, with $442 billion in multifamily lending.

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While the industry has faced heightened uncertainty during the course of the pandemic, self-storage, as well as the multifamily and industrial sectors, rose to become some of the preferred commercial real estate property types for investors.

With more employees shifting to work-from-home or hybrid setups, accelerated migration trends, and organizations choosing larger storage units for logistics and distribution, the industry was able to maximize on changes driven by the global health crisis.

While rent growth in the storage industry has moderated in recent months, many markets in the Sun Belt continued to register double-digit rent increases. Because of this consistent performance, developers seek to add new supply to these specific markets despite slow development activity pre-pandemic.

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