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	<title>Lumina Services &#187; Housing Development</title>
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		<title>Construction activity down but prices at high end up</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/11/construction-activity-down-but-prices-at-high-end-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/11/construction-activity-down-but-prices-at-high-end-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Real Estate Investor just reported that 14,942 units of private pay service-enriched and skilled nursing facility beds are under construction in the US. That’s up modestly year-over-year although well below pre-recession levels. But it’s way below the peak of 1998, when an astonishing 57,800 similar units were under construction. Of course a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Largest Gated Retirement Community in the World</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/08/the-largest-gated-retirement-community-in-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/08/the-largest-gated-retirement-community-in-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Baby Boomers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gated Retirement Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Options]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retirement]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=433</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been engaging in a bout of summer cleaning—trying to create breathing space in my usually very cluttered office. I can’t remember what clutter means from a personality perspective but I am feeling very smug about the order I have brought to a certain amount of chaos.
Part of the process involved going through piles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Primary Market Areas</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/07/primary-market-areas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/07/primary-market-areas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging in place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retirement]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=429</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Historically, market areas in the seniors’ housing industry in Canada have been defined for the service enriched segment of the market. Primary market areas (PMAs) are considered to be those areas from which 75-80% of the residents of a project will come. Sometimes radiuses are used, 10 miles being a popular one as in “This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All you condo-sceptics out there take note:</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/06/all-you-condo-sceptics-out-there-take-note/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/06/all-you-condo-sceptics-out-there-take-note/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Condominium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service Enriched Housing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=419</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may have seen the inaugural copy of the Westbridge Group Valuation Partner/Lumina Services newsletter. If you haven’t seen it, it is pretty amazing even if I do say so myself. One of the articles discusses the question of condos with services—whether they make any sense from an investment point of view. Many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Housing Markets</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/03/housing-markets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/03/housing-markets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senior Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Economist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=400</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here in Canada and especially in BC we have been subject to numerous warnings that our housing markets are overheated and about to collapse, much as they have in the US. All of us in the seniors’ housing industry are very aware of the impact of falling house prices on occupancy levels. So it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Asian Retirement Community</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/03/an-asian-retirement-community/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/03/an-asian-retirement-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese seniors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Options]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing Menus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Readers of this blog are by now familiar with one of my many obsessions, that being the impact of multi-generational cultures on the demand for supportive seniors housing. The hypothesis is that in cultures where families look after their elders at home until they are so frail they need residential care, the intermediate step of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Trends in Seniors Housing for 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/02/top-10-trends-in-seniors-housing-for-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/02/top-10-trends-in-seniors-housing-for-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging in place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Options]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independent Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retirement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=376</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Before I get into this, I wanted to let you know that my book The Future of Seniors Housing: Planning, Building and Operating Successful Seniors Housing Projects is now available on Amazon.ca and on eBay. I know it sounds kind of weird to think about listing new books on eBay but apparently it is quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integration or segregation of assisted living services in independent living communities</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/01/integration-or-segregation-of-assisted-living-services-in-independent-living-communities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2011/01/integration-or-segregation-of-assisted-living-services-in-independent-living-communities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assisted Living]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=336</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have posted about this before and there is also a section on the subject in my book The Future of Seniors Housing: Planning, Building and Operating Successful Seniors Housing Projects (now available on our website and soon to be available on Amazon etc).
The thing is, I think I have changed my mind since the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North American seniors’ housing providers should move to Beijing!</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/11/north-american-seniors%e2%80%99-housing-providers-should-move-to-beijing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/11/north-american-seniors%e2%80%99-housing-providers-should-move-to-beijing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 03:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Age of entry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Options]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retirement]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=330</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I made a presentation at the Insight Western Canadian Seniors’ Housing Forum, held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Vancouver. One of the things I talked about was the challenge of widening the market for retirement housing. Usually we consider that a new seniors project can expect to appeal to about 5-10% of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>55+ Housing in the US still weak</title>
		<link>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/11/55-housing-in-the-us-still-weak/</link>
		<comments>http://www.luminaservices.com/2010/11/55-housing-in-the-us-still-weak/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors' Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Market Index]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retirement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senior Housing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.luminaservices.com/?p=328</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent report from the National Association of Homebuilders clearly indicates that active adult housing in the US is still in recession. The 55+ single-family Housing Market Index (HMI) measures builder sentiment based on current sales, prospective buyer traffic and anticipated six-month sales for the 55+ single-family market.  A number greater than 50 indicates that [...]]]></description>
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