• Unique Upstate NY Community Changes Hands

    An independent living community with Enriched Housing Program beds sold in western New York for $4.0 million with the help of Dave Balow and Vince Viverito of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. The Enriched Housing Program (EHP) is a unique designation in New York State, appealing to a wider pool of potential residents than IL alone.  Built... Read More »
  • West Coast-Based Investor Acquires in Kentucky

    The Bluegrass Assisted Living Portfolio, which comprises two performing seniors housing communities, sold to a West Coast-based investor. Located approximately 30 miles apart in Bardstown and Elizabethtown, Kentucky, the assets offer assisted living and memory care services. They will be managed by an operator with an existing presence in the... Read More »
  • Investor Group Acquires in Oregon

    Silver Wave Capital announced its fourth acquisition in the last 12 months, picking up a new seniors housing community in a suburb of Portland, Oregon. The firm, founded by Cory Wake and Elan Ruggill in 2024, made the acquisition with Sherman Capital Partners as a co-GP and another capital partner.  Built in 2019, the Class-A community is... Read More »
  • Private Company Acquires Struggling Skilled Nursing Facility

    Todd Okum and Nick Martinez of O&M Investments have acquired their seventh skilled nursing facility of the year. Built around 1985, the facility comprises 120 beds and sits west of Palm Beach County, Florida. The seller was a not-for-profit organization, with this divestment marking its exit from the skilled nursing sector, as it sold the... Read More »
  • Alta Senior Living Obtains Refinance for Tampa Asset

    Kristen Ahrens and Pat Maloney of Blueprint facilitated the refinance of The Legacy at Highwoods Preserve. Built in 2015, the 68,281-square-foot building comprises 60 assisted living and 22 memory care units on 9.9 acres in Tampa, Florida. The borrower is a well-established owner/operator with a presence in Florida. Blueprint Capital Markets ran... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: April Already Passes 50 Transactions

60 Seconds with Swett: April Already Passes 50 Transactions

Tariff turmoil? Volatile and still-high interest rates? Uncertainty surrounding Medicaid spending, labor costs and HUD’s queue length? Seniors housing and care dealmakers have looked past a lot of this noise to announce 50 transactions in the first three weeks of the second quarter, putting the market on track for the busiest M&A period ever. We know we sound like a broken record, but the start of April did feel like we reached a new level of activity, and given the conversations we’ve been having in the last few weeks, the second and third quarters may only accelerate in deal volume. For some sellers, seeing through the January 2025 rate increases was enough to enter the transaction... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: Adapting to the 2025 M&A Market

60 Seconds with Swett: Adapting to the 2025 M&A Market

The M&A market is slowly shifting, with increased liquidity, further stabilizing operations and some larger and higher quality deals hitting the market. Perhaps things are not moving as quickly as some want, and cap rates are not compressing enough to attract certain sellers to the market. But interest rates have been the major drag on dealmaking, values and lending, and the recent chaos around tariffs did not help. So how are dealmakers taking advantage of the current market dynamics? When does it make sense to sell a Class-A stabilized asset these days if cap rates are not where they were several years ago? And what is going on in the debt markets that potential buyers need to be... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: Adapting to the 2025 M&A Market

60 Seconds with Swett: Medicare Advantage Sees A Pay Bump

As the healthcare industry braces for whatever impacts tariffs may have on operations, an impossible task to predict accurately given the flux on that matter, providers also are welcoming a new head of CMS, Dr. Mehmet Oz, who was confirmed by the Senate last week. There is some uncertainty on how the Trump Administration will treat healthcare providers overall, specifically in the senior care industry, with some positives coming from the end of the minimum staffing mandate and an overall friendlier business climate, versus the threat of increased scrutiny on Medicare and Medicaid spending with respect to fraud and abuse potentially contributing to falling revenues. When reading the tea... Read More »
60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: Here We Go Again

60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: Here We Go Again

Investigate, investigate, investigate. Regulate, regulate, regulate. Why not assist? Why not help? Why not try to understand? Liz, Ron and Kirsten, of U.S. Senate fame, have asked the GAO to investigate the assisted living industry and to see if federal oversight is needed. Really? Are we going down this road again? How did that work out for the nursing home industry? As we know, the assisted living sector is predominantly private pay, unlike nursing homes, but the senators are using information from state Medicaid agencies to back up their claims. I suppose I could see them investigating any assisted living community that is receiving Medicaid funds to make sure the money is wisely spent,... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: April Already Passes 50 Transactions

60 Seconds with Swett: Loneliness, Health and the Active Adult Opportunity

We came across a recent survey by U.S. News & World Report that interviewed seniors who moved into either independent living, assisted living or memory care in the last two years, trying to gather how seniors experience social connection within their communities and also how they gauged their loneliness and health trajectories leading up to their move. To no one’s surprise, the percent of seniors who felt lonely a majority of the time dropped from 69% before the move to seniors housing to 42% afterwards, still a large share, unfortunately. A smaller percentage reported taking part in more activities, more physical activity or finding meaning or purpose in daily life more often after... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: Adapting to the 2025 M&A Market

60 Seconds with Swett: The Demand for SNFs

We had a fantastic webinar last week that covered our recently published valuation statistics from The Senior Care Acquisition Report but also how valuations, the lending environment and M&A strategies are changing in 2025, so far. Jason Punzel of Senior Living Investment Brokerage, Steve Munn of VIUM Capital and JP LoMonaco of CBRE joined me for the discussion and all had fascinating and useful takeaways on the current state of the market. I ended the webinar with a question about what type of property each panelist would purchase themselves, if they had the equity to finance the rest of the acquisition with debt. Although much of the webinar centered around the seniors housing... Read More »