In 2017, Blackstone Group — the world’s largest alternative asset manager — embarked on what it believed would be a high-growth play into the senior housing sector, staking approximately $1.8 billion to acquire close to 90 senior living properties across the United States. This bet was fueled by the widely promoted “silver tsunami”

Kansas City is entering a period of steady, income-driven appreciation, and investors who understand the fundamentals of this market have a narrow window to position themselves before that growth becomes fully reflected in pricing.