Lori Marks

Healthcare REITs: What to Watch for in 2020

Tight labor markets and some oversupplied markets present credit challenges, but there are a few silver linings as well, explains Lori Marks of Investor Services.

Reimbursement Changes to Benefit Skilled Nursing REITs

Moody’s believes the potential for skilled nursing facility cash flows to stabilize, and even increase modestly, is credit positive for REITs with significant investments in the sector, according to Senior Credit Officer Lori Marks.

Don’t Paint Health-Care REITs With a Broad Brush

A slowing economy would weaken companies with large senior housing portfolios, but other companies in this sector would fare better, contends Lori Marks of Moody’s.

Health Care REITs: Developments to Watch

Asset sales will likely improve health-care REITs’ portfolio quality and balance sheets, while new supply will continue to challenge their senior housing investments, reports Moody’s Investors Service Vice President Lori Marks.

Health Care REITs: Developments to Watch in 2017

By Lori Marks, Vice President & Senior Analyst, Moody’s Investors Service: The key factors that will lead to slower, albeit still positive, earnings growth in 2017 for the sector.

Health Care REITs Well Prepared to Withstand SNF Challenges

By Lori Marks, Vice President & Senior Analyst, Moody’s Investors Service: The top reasons why health care REITs will be able to manage the challenges facing the skilled-nursing facility market.

M&A Fuels Earnings for Growing Healthcare REITs

By Lori Marks, Vice President & Senior Analyst, Commercial Real Estate Finance, Moody’s Investors Service: Healthcare REITs are driving earnings growth by acquiring real estate at yields in excess of their capital costs.

Healthcare REITs: Rapid Growth with Reasonable Leverage & Ample Liquidity

By Lori Marks, Associate Vice President & Analyst, Moody’s Investors Service: Moody’s outlook for healthcare REITs remains stable, reflecting the companies’ sound financial profiles, which leave them well-prepared to weather potential challenges such as falling reimbursement rates and rising interest rates.

Healthcare REITs: Poised for Continued Stable Performance and Growth

By Lori Marks, Associate Vice President & Analyst, Moody’s Investors Service: REITs invested in healthcare remain stable, having increased diversification among property types, many with properties in several areas of the healthcare market.

Healthcare REITs: Greater Scale and Diversification are Credit Positive

By Lori Marks, Moody’s Investors Service

Property sub-type diversification is especially important for healthcare REITs as each of the segments has different profit drivers and unique risk profiles.