• 60 Seconds with Swett: Sticks and Bricks in ’26?

    The talk around new development is getting a lot more serious in the seniors housing industry, leading us to wonder if our 2024 prediction of “Sticks and Bricks in ‘26” may actually come true, somewhat. Back then, we may have thought that interest rates would have come down a bit more by now, but that the FOMO of getting involved in seniors... Read More »
  • Wyoming SNF Sale Sets New State Record

    There was a new record set for skilled nursing pricing in the state of Wyoming with the sale of Big Horn Rehabilitation and Care Center in Sheridan. Built in the 1960s, the facility features 128 beds and was 61% occupied. It was owned by a regional operator that was looking to recycle capital.  Before the marketing process, Evans Senior... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Acquires Facility Out of Bankruptcy

    A senior care facility in Worcester, Massachusetts, sold as part of a bankruptcy process with the help of Patrick Burke and Toby Siefert of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Built in 1970, Donna Kay Rest Home features 60 licensed beds in 31 units, providing a higher level of care and supervision than assisted living but at a lesser acuity than... Read More »
  • Civitas Sells Community to Clarion

    Hap Knowles and Nick Stahler of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Institutional Property Advisors announced that they led the sale of a seniors housing community in the Phoenix, Arizona MSA, to the fast-growing real estate investment firm Clarion Partners. The deal appears to be The Retreat at Alameda, a 110-unit assisted living/memory care community in... Read More »
  • Blueprint Handles Recapitalization

    Blueprint handled the recapitalization of Forest Hills Commons, a 2017-developed, 119-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Louisville, Kentucky MSA. A Louisville-based senior living owner/operator/developer engaged Blueprint in the third quarter of 2025 to begin the process. The asset demonstrated strong in-place performance and... Read More »
Joint Venture Acquires in North Carolina

Joint Venture Acquires in North Carolina

Blueprint facilitated the sale of a seniors housing asset in the Charlotte, North Carolina MSA. The community was constructed in the late-1990s and comprises 54 assisted living and memory care units. While it was performing and set in a prominent location, the community was not stable at the time of sale.  Both national and regional buyers were approached, and the seller received four credible offers within 30 days of launch. The winning bidder ended up being a newly formed joint venture between a Midwest-based investment group and a Carolinas-based operator. Kyle Hallion, Amy Sitzman and Giancarlo Riso handled the transaction. Read More »
Industry Veterans Purchase in New Jersey

Industry Veterans Purchase in New Jersey

A senior living operator led by a couple of industry veterans, Scott Burman and Lorne Schecter, purchased an assisted living community in West Orange, New Jersey. The former Canterbury Village features 44 units and 53 beds but closed its doors in mid-2023. It had been previously operated by an affiliate of the not-for-profit Heath Village of Hackettstown, New Jersey, but ownership had transferred to Provident Bank by the time of the sale. George Bingham of Sherman & Roylance represented Provident in the deal and played a key role in facilitating the deed-in-lieu transfer to the bank. The buyer plans to invest in significant renovations, modernizing the space while continuing to operate... Read More »
SLIB Carries On 2024 Activity

SLIB Carries On 2024 Activity

Maintaining its blistering pace at the start of 2024, Senior Living Investment Brokerage completed several more transactions for senior care clients across the country. First, Jason Punzel, Brad Goodsell, Vince Viverito and Jake Anderson represented a family owner looking to exit the seniors housing industry with the sale of their 77-unit assisted living/memory care community in San Bernardino, California. Built in 2003, the community has 97 licensed beds and 88 operational beds. It was 85% occupied.  CareTrust REIT announced that it and a third-party regional healthcare real estate investor entered into a joint venture arrangement under which CTRE provided a combined common equity... Read More »
Marcus & Millichap Facilitates Texas AL/SNF Portfolio Sale

Marcus & Millichap Facilitates Texas AL/SNF Portfolio Sale

Before the year closed out, Nick Stahler, Mike Mooney and Austin Diamond of The Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap closed a nine-facility, 1,000+ bed assisted living and skilled nursing portfolio in the greater Dallas, Texas MSA. Adding to the portfolio’s appeal was its assumable, attractive, non-recourse HUD financing at below-market interest rates.  So, The Knapp-Stahler Group produced multiple offers for the seller, a national private equity owner/developer, which ultimately selected a New York-based skilled nursing investment firm as the buyer. The buyer was selected for its substantial financial liquidity and tenure in the seniors housing industry.  The process... Read More »
Wisconsin Senior Care Portfolio Changes Hands

Wisconsin Senior Care Portfolio Changes Hands

Blueprint was enlisted in the divestment of eight senior care campuses concentrated in and around Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Five of the eight campuses are within an 11-mile radius, and all are within one hour from one another. The seller was Wisconsin-based owner/operator Dove Healthcare. Featuring mostly five-star communities, the portfolio comprises 304 licensed SNF beds, 104 RCAC units and 118 CBRF beds, for a total of 526 units/beds. The portfolio benefited from significant statewide Medicaid reimbursement rate enhancements in Wisconsin, which were effective July 1. Additionally, since October 1st, 2022, rate increases across all portfolio private pay RCAC/CBRF residents ranged from 8% to... Read More »
SLIB Sells Senior Care Campus in Iowa

SLIB Sells Senior Care Campus in Iowa

As a local, Masonic not-for-profit exited its senior care campus in Bettendorf, Iowa, a Florida-based private owner stepped in to take over ownership. The buyer has additional communities in Iowa, so the deal is part of an effort to strategically grow in the eastern part of the state. Ryan Saul and Nick Cacciabando of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the transaction. Iowa Masonic Health Facilities & Masonic Village is located in the Quad Cities area, near the Illinois border on the Mississippi River. It consists of a 79-bed skilled nursing facility that was originally built in the early 1900s and 40 independent living villas. Built in the late-1980s, the villas come in one-... Read More »