Chris Bilotto, president and CEO of Diversified Healthcare Trust (Nasdaq: DHC), sat down for a video interview during Nareit’s REITweek: 2025 Investor Conference in New York City on June 2-5.
Bilotto discussed the company’s strategic groundwork and growth outlook for 2025 and beyond. Reflecting on the past several years, he emphasized the importance of the portfolio-wide investments Diversified Healthcare Trustmade across its medical office, life science, and senior housing assets.
“We’ve really taken the time over the last couple of years investing capital in our properties and really kind of doing a top-to-bottom analysis of our portfolio,” Bilotto said. This foundational work has created what he called a “new playbook” that positions the company to better serve key areas of demand.
Bilotto identified several powerful tailwinds driving the health care real estate sector, particularly an aging population and evolving medical technologies. “Looking at it from that lens, alongside the overall aging demographics, really puts us in a unique position on a go-forward basis,” he noted.
On the financial side, Diversified Healthcare Trusthas proactively addressed its balance sheet, refinancing near-term maturities and limiting debt obligations through 2026. “We really don’t have a lot of maturities for the next couple of years, and so it allows us to focus on other initiatives across the portfolio and gives us some good opportunities for growth,” Bilotto explained.
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