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Market Studies

Lumina Services is the leading provider in British Columbia of market studies for both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations interested in the development of seniors’ housing projects

We can help you answer these questions:

What is the current and future demand in your area for seniors’ housing?
What is the nature of the demand? Does it arise from younger, more independent seniors, from older seniors who might require some services to remain independent, or from frailer seniors who require heavier care?
What are the different alternatives you might consider to meet the demand? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
What kinds of seniors’ housing projects have already been built in your housing market and how will you compete with the existing supply?
How big should your project be?
What would be the best mix of units?
What services and amenities should be included in your project?
What marketing approaches will maximize absorption?
Will you be able to market your project at high enough prices to warrant proceeding with the development process?
How can you reduce the development and operational risks you might face?

Development Consulting

Tasks that Lumina Services can provide assistance with include:

Finding financial sources to fund development consulting activities;
Helping to identify professional resources, including architects and engineers;
Working with municipal officials;
Setting up financial and legal structures;
Providing community consultation;
Coordinating communication and marketing activities;
Coordinating project design and construction.
Providing training and education for project staff.
Providing life lease development consulting with our partners Terra Housing, find out more at terralumina.ca

Presentations

Kate Mancer frequently makes informative and enjoyable presentations to large and small groups on a wide variety of issues related to seniors’ housing and health care issues.

Troubled Property Analysis

Through a variety of mechanisms, Lumina Services can help the owners of properties suffering from slower than anticipated absorption to increase occupancy. Questions that may be addressed include:

What is the best marketing approach to ensure full occupancy?
Who is the target market?
Are rents or purchase prices competitive in the marketplace?
What needs to happen to attain and maintain full occupancy?

Community Housing Studies

Many communities in BC are struggling to find ways of providing housing and health care for their seniors so they do not have to relocate to larger communities. Lumina Services has worked in many communities on studies that address the following questions:

What are the housing and health care needs of Community X seniors, now and in the foreseeable future?
What are the options for meeting those needs? Options could conceivably run the gamut from the construction of a new building to the conversion and/or reuse of existing buildings to the coordination of services to peoples’ homes.
What are the estimated capital and/or operating costs of identified options?
What is the affordability situation of Community X seniors and could the costs identified in #3 be absorbed by seniors themselves or would other solutions (eg subsidies) be necessary?
Given the information obtained in Steps 1 to 4, what is the preferred solution?

For a more indepth description of what we can do for your community please read Community Housing Strategies for Aging Populations:

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Policy Studies

Demographic and socio-economic analysis focused on housing and health issues for seniors
Community need and demand studies
Research studies focused on emerging issues in seniors’ housing, including alternate tenure arrangements, supportive and assisted housing models, and different approaches to financing seniors’ housing developments

What People Say...

“The report on strategic directions Lumina Services provided for us was absolutely outstanding. The report is so clear it is exactly what we needed. We definitely hired the right company. “

Michael Aikins, Executive Director

Glacier View Lodge and The Views at St. Joseph's | Courtenay, BC