• 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 »
PE Group Acquires CT Seniors Housing Community

PE Group Acquires CT Seniors Housing Community

Toby Siefert and Dave Balow of Senior Living Investment Brokerage headed to Torrington, Connecticut, to sell a 68-unit assisted living/memory care community owned by one of the largest New England-based operators. With the sale, the owner was able to realize its investment horizon on the asset. The Cottage at Litchfield Hills was built in 1998 and features 39 assisted living and 29 memory care units. It maintained high occupancy levels and above market rents, helped by key demographic growth in the Torrington market. A growing Northeast-based private equity group seeking to grow its footprint into the Connecticut market paid an undisclosed sum for the community. Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: U.S. Senior Care Deal Activity Surpasses 400 Deals

60 Seconds with Swett: U.S. Senior Care Deal Activity Surpasses 400 Deals

Across U.S. senior care M&A activity, we have surpassed 400 transactions in the first 11 months of the year, hitting 402. That is more than 15% down from the 476 transactions recorded in the first 11 months of 2022, but we are not sure many would have predicted the market even exceeding 400 deals. Of course, deals will continue to trickle in from the previous months, and December could yield its usual rush of closings, but we would be lucky to reach 450 deals on the year, far below 2022’s U.S. total of 517 deals. However, believe it or not, 2023’s estimated annual deal count of, let’s conservatively call it 440 deals publicly announced in the U.S., would be a very healthy number,... Read More »
Newmark Handles Half-Billion-Dollar Portfolio Sale

Newmark Handles Half-Billion-Dollar Portfolio Sale

The seniors housing and care market has largely been missing out on large portfolio deals in 2023, because few sellers want to take a substantive portfolio to market when buyers are constrained by the capital markets on the prices they can afford to pay. However, the team at Newmark including Ryan Maconachy, Chad Lavender, Sarah Anderson, Mills Poynor, Ben McElroy and Brittany Robinson successfully sold a portfolio of 12 seniors housing communities for approximately $500 million, or $277,000 per unit.  Located in seven states (Virginia, Massachusetts, Missouri, North Carolina, New Jersey, South Carolina and Texas), the portfolio consists of 1,809 total units, with independent living,... Read More »
SLIB Sells Two Seniors Housing Assets

SLIB Sells Two Seniors Housing Assets

Senior Living Investment Brokerage was brought on by two different sellers in the sale of two seniors housing assets. First, SLIB was enlisted by a group of local real estate owners looking to retire from the industry in their sale of a CBRF community in Footville, Wisconsin. The community was developed in 2009 and comprises 80 beds in 73 units. The buyer ended up being an experienced local operator that partnered with an out of state equity group. This is the ninth community added to the buyer’s growing Wisconsin portfolio. Jason Punzel, Ryan Saul, Brad Clousing and Jake Anderson handled the transaction.  Next, SLIB was engaged by a multifamily owner/developer looking to focus on... Read More »
Bloom Acquires in Indiana

Bloom Acquires in Indiana

Blueprint was brought on to market two late 1990s-built assisted living communities in Indianapolis, Indiana. Three competing offers from regional owner/operators were received and the selected buyer was Bloom Senior Living. Bloom plans to reposition the assets as more affordable options in Indianapolis by utilizing the Indiana Assisted Living Waiver Program.  Ryan Kelly, Connor Doherty, Amy Sitzman and Giancarlo Riso handled the transaction, which successfully closed upon receipt of licensure and change of ownership approval. Read More »
Berkadia Closes Four HUD Loans

Berkadia Closes Four HUD Loans

Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare recently announced the closing of four loans totaling $56.6 million in volume through HUD’s 232/223f program, all of which achieved the program’s maximum loan term of 35 years. First, Ed Williams closed a $14.5 million loan secured by a 139-bed skilled nursing facility in South Florida for a repeat Florida-based client. The loan refinanced a bridge loan that Williams placed in 2019 and a subsequent cash-out, borrow-up originated by the senior lender in August of 2022. Berkadia closed the HUD refinance 13-months from the borrow-up by qualifying the project under HUD’s reduced seasoning guidelines. The community appraised for $164,000 per bed and was... Read More »