• Sabra’s Q4 Deals Push 2025 New Investments to $450 Million

    Sabra Health Care REIT released its fourth quarter results. On a year-over-year basis, same-store cash NOI increased 12.6% for the fourth quarter of 2025, while the 2025 quarterly year-over-year average increase was 15.0%, inclusive of the stabilized facilities formerly operated by Holiday Retirement.  Its Q4 acquisitions brought the... Read More »
  • CareTrust Closes 2025 with 169 New Property Investments

    CareTrust REIT came out with its fourth quarter and full-year 2025 earnings and is continuing on its growth trajectory. In Q4, the REIT added 19 properties to its portfolio, comprising 14 triple-net leased skilled nursing facilities, two triple-net leased seniors housing communities and three SHOP communities, all totaling $561.5 million in... Read More »
  • Separate Sellers Divest in Florida

    Berkadia announced two seniors housing closings, both involving communities in the Sunshine State. First, Berkadia represented a Maryland-based private equity investment firm in its divestment of a 130-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community in the Jacksonville, Florida MSA. The asset was built in 2015. Ross Sanders,... Read More »
  • Idaho IL/AL Community Receives HUD Financing

    Berkadia secured $27.5 million in financing for a seniors housing community in Idaho. The asset comprises 191 independent living and assisted living units, and was 97% occupied at the time of closing. Bianca Andujo and Steve Muth closed the financing through HUD’s 232/223(f) program for a first-time Berkadia client based in Tennessee. The loan... Read More »
  • Welltower Releases Strong Results, Again

    Welltower announced its fourth quarter and full-year 2025 results, which reflected a strong year, as anticipated. Investors seemed to agree, with shares rising to an intraday high of 5.9% above the prior close the day following the release, before finishing up 3.5%.  In the fourth quarter, the REIT saw 400 basis points of average occupancy... Read More »

Legacy Owner/Operator Retires with Sale

Daniel Morris of Plains Commercial Real Estate rang in the new year with the sale of a couple assets in Enid, Oklahoma, collectively referred to as the Greenbriar Portfolio. The legacy owner/operator-seller built two of the buildings, and converted the third to seniors housing after purchasing it in the 1990s. The skilled nursing facility comprised 150 beds, the assisted living community featured 60 units, and the independent living community had 61. The physical plants were very well-maintained. Second-generation leadership was ready to retire, prompting the divestment of the assets that had never previously been sold. The process was competitive, with a regional group ultimately selected... Read More »

Healthpeak Properties Jumps Back into Seniors Housing

Ever since Healthpeak Properties essentially exited the seniors housing market in 2021, we had wondered when they would come back. We even thought they could have jumped back in just a year later when rumors were circulating that Brookdale Senior Living was in talks about a potential sale.  The M&A opportunity in seniors housing, and the fact that its REIT peer group have been accelerating their acquisition efforts in the last year, must have been too good to pass up, as Healthpeak is now forming Janus Living, a REIT that will own, acquire and develop seniors housing properties under a RIDEA structure. An IPO is planned in the first half of 2026, after which Healthpeak intends to... Read More »

Blueprint Handles Washington State Bankruptcy Deal

Fresh off a phenomenal 2025 (we’ll see where they ended up in the Broker Rankings next month), Blueprint announced a few end-of-year closings this week. First, Michael Segal, Dan Mahoney, Amy Sitzman and Daniel Waldhorn ran a bankruptcy sale for the real estate of three skilled nursing facilities in Washington State. They were engaged by the debtor and approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of Eastern New York District to manage the marketing and sale process. Dubbed the Supersonic Portfolio, the facilities are in King and Pierce Counties and licensed for 355 total beds. They included Renton Health & Rehabilitation in Renton, Valley View Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation in Renton, and... Read More »

Ventas Divests to Joint Venture

Berkadia announced that it handled the sale of a California seniors housing community, and refinanced a separate Montana community. Atria Park of San Mateo, a 135-unit assisted living and memory care community in San Mateo, California, sold to an institutionally capitalized partnership. Mike Garbers, Cody Tremper, Dave Fasano and Ross Sanders of Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare closed the transaction. Following a review of multiple offers, the seller selected a joint venture between Shelter Real Estate Investment Strategies and Calson Management as the buyer. Ventas included the community in its most recent property list.  Berkadia next announced the refinancing of Bozeman... Read More »

Behavioral Buyer Gets Vacant VA Asset

Some brokers have been taking advantage of behavioral health providers’ desire to grow in order to sell vacant seniors housing assets, and getting higher prices for their clients as a result. Toby Siefert and Dave Balow of Senior Living Investment Brokerage arranged the sale of Mayfair House, a 53-unit assisted living community in Portsmouth, Virginia (Norfolk MSA), that was sold vacant by a local owner/operator of seniors housing communities in the Shenandoah Valley and surrounding areas. The community was built in 1994 and features 27,300 square feet on 1.3 acres.  As a seniors housing asset, a sale would not get the seller the value they needed. But Siefert and Balow engaged some... Read More »

Tenant Acquires California Property

JCH Senior Housing Investment Brokerage announced the sale of a 77-unit assisted living/memory care community in the High Desert region of California. This property was originally structured as a five-year lease with a purchase option. But just 15 months into the lease term, JCH closed an $8.5 million, or $110,400 per unit, sale.  The property’s single-asset owner was retiring, and the incoming owner is an experienced regional operator. During the lease period, the tenant/buyer expanded bed capacity, enhancing the future revenue and NOI opportunity. That is what led them to exercise the purchase option well ahead of schedule. Cindy Hazzard and Jennifer Contreras served as the lead... Read More »