There was some buzz at the NIC Spring Conference about a certain dealmaking duo that have closed $15 billion in their careers jumping from one brokerage firm to another, and the news has now come out that Josh Jandris and Brett Gardner have both made the move from Walker & Dunlop to Cushman & Wakefield. They join Florida-based Jason Skalko, who was hired as a Managing Director at C&W in early 2024 to revive the senior care investment sales business after the exodus of its seniors housing team to JLL in 2023.
Jandris and Gardner will each serve as Vice Chair in the Chicago office and will represent institutional and private-capital investors in dispositions across the continuum of care, including skilled nursing facilities, assisted living and memory care communities, independent living communities, CCRCs and age-restricted communities. They have closed investment sales of seniors housing properties totaling more than $15 billion in their careers.
According to The SeniorCare Investor’s latest Broker Rankings, Walker & Dunlop closed a total of 28 transactions in 2024, and Cushman & Wakefield closed three as it started ramping up its seniors housing production. Those W&D deals were closed across the Jandris/Gardner team (which also included Mark Myers for much of the year before he moved to SVN Senior Living Advisors on January 1, 2025), as well as from Tony Cassie, Gideon Orion, Sam Thompson, Alex Vice and Nick Hall.
