• 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 »
Two Class-A AL/MC Communities Change Hands

Two Class-A AL/MC Communities Change Hands

Blueprint was brought on to facilitate the sale of two Class-A assisted living/memory care communities in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, MSA. The seller was a national developer/investor divesting to de-lever and accelerate the wind-down of the maturing fund holding the communities.  One of the communities opened in 2016 and is relatively smaller compared to the other, which opened in 2020. The older community had never fully stabilized, however, it maintained a modest in-place cash flow and showed positive momentum. Meanwhile, the newer community had never recovered from its COVID-driven lease-up challenges but, even at lower occupancies, showed margin potential. They are located... Read More »
Montgomery Selling in Memphis

Montgomery Selling in Memphis

On the eve of the NIC Conference in Chicago, Andrew Montgomery of Montgomery Intermediary Group facilitated the sale of an assisted living community in Memphis, Tennessee. Built in 1997 with 85 units, the community was bought out of bankruptcy in 2010 by the current owner/seller. It was operational as an assisted living community until October 2022, when ownership decided to shut it down after some tenant difficulties. The property sold vacant, and we would guess given the vintage and the lack of census, the per-unit price could not have surpassed $50,000 per unit. A private investor bought the asset, utilizing an existing lending relationship to obtain bridge debt for the deal. The buyer... Read More »
CCRC Sells out West

CCRC Sells out West

Evans Senior Investments successfully sold a CCRC on the West Coast, closing the deal within 35 days of executing the contract. Few details were disclosed, but the community consists of approximately 150 units, with assisted living and memory care making up about 75% of the units and skilled nursing comprising the remainder. The campus was built around 2000, with a renovation completed last year. The winning bidder emerged from four groups, for an undisclosed price. Read More »
SLIB Facilitates Sale of Two NY Seniors Housing Communities

SLIB Facilitates Sale of Two NY Seniors Housing Communities

Two assisted living communities in New York with licenses designed to provide higher level care in an AL setting, rather than in a skilled nursing facility, sold with the help of Dave Balow of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Balow was brought on by a private owner to facilitate the sale (and their exit from seniors housing ownership in order to focus on other ventures within the industry).  The two communities, The Cambridge Assisted Living and The Mansion at South Union, are located within a mile of each other in Cambridge, New York. The Cambridge has an enhanced care license, which is all private pay, while The Mansion is an ALP community (Assisted Living Program), which is a... Read More »
AgeWell Solvere Living Acquires Sonata Senior Living

AgeWell Solvere Living Acquires Sonata Senior Living

Two senior living operators based in Florida have affiliated, resulting in a portfolio of 34 communities in seven states, and an additional four communities that will open in the near-future. AgeWell Solvere Living acquired Sonata Senior Living, assuming ownership of the operating companies that manage Sonata’s 14 communities starting November 1. This development followed the merger of Solvere Living and AgeWell Living in January, which formed the new entity known as AgeWell Solvere. The newly-acquired communities will continue to operate under Sonata’s branding, and many of these communities currently operate below occupancy stabilization levels. AgeWell Solvere plans to integrate its own... Read More »
Plains Commercial Handles Anaheim Deal

Plains Commercial Handles Anaheim Deal

Plains Commercial sold Family Choice Senior Living, a 30-bed residential care (assisted living) community in Anaheim, California. Daniel Morris of Plains was engaged by the private investor seller to do a direct transaction, as they were exiting the seniors housing space.  The community had undergone an extensive renovation in the last few years, after which the seller executed a long-term lease with a local seniors housing operator. The buyer is a local investor with existing seniors housing investments that was looking to expand its portfolio as a landlord. The community sold at an attractive cap rate, which helped the parties to be able to navigate the current lending... Read More »