• 2nd Quarter Investor Call: The Great Debates of Senior Care

    On Thursday, July 17, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor Ben Swett hosted SCI’s latest webinar, dubbed The Great Debates of Senior Care, with panelists ​​Dan Revie of Ziegler, Scott Hougham of Sage, and Michael Feinstein of Focus Healthcare Partners. Issues such as the chances of having a unit shortfall, whether cap rates are too low, the... Read More »
  • Ventas Acquires in Washington State

    Ventas expanded its portfolio through a recent acquisition of a seniors housing community in Washington State. Built in 2003, MorningStar at Silver Lake is in Everett, Washington, with 113 independent living and 35 assisted living units. The in-place operator will continue to manage the community going forward. MorningStar Senior Living has been... Read More »
  • Chicago Pacific Founders Acquires Class-A Communities

    Berkadia handled the sale and financing of two Class-A independent living, assisted living, and memory care communities: Grand Living at Citrus Hills and Grand Living at Bridgewater. The pair of seniors housing communities have a combined total of 337 units, and are located in Hernando, Florida, and Coralville, Iowa, respectively. Managing... Read More »
  • Blueprint Closes Lease-to-Purchase Transaction

    A large New York-based seniors housing owner engaged Blueprint to explore the sale of an 80-unit assisted living/memory care community in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Kory Buzin and Steve Thomes handled the transaction. Ownership acquired the asset several years prior while in distress and brought on Viva Senior Living as manager to execute a... Read More »
  • BHI Provides Bridge Loan

    BHI, the U.S. branch of Bank Hapoalim B.M., provided $49 million in bridge-to-HUD financing for a portfolio of three seniors housing communities in the suburbs of Detroit. The portfolio consists of Hampton Manor of Dundee, Hampton Manor of Trenton and Hampton Manor of Hamburg. Together, the communities total 221 units, with 171 assisted living... Read More »
Town Lane Acquires Two Communities and Recapitalizes a Third

Town Lane Acquires Two Communities and Recapitalizes a Third

Discovery Senior Living announced the recapitalization and closing of three Class-A, purpose-built, independent living, assisted living and memory care communities: Discovery Village at Naples (Naples, FL), Discovery Village at Sarasota Bay (Sarasota, FL) and Discovery Village at Castle Hills (Lewisville, TX).  All three communities were designed, funded, developed and launched through Discovery’s fully integrated platform including its in-house design and development department, capital markets, and management capabilities. Opened within the last four years, the two IL communities total 273 units and have stabilized, while the newly opened 90-unit AL/MC community is quickly... Read More »
Optalis Healthcare Acquires Michigan Portfolio

Optalis Healthcare Acquires Michigan Portfolio

Blueprint was engaged by Michael F. Flanagan, the duly appointed receiver of Spartan Holdco, LLC, et al. and approved by the Oakland County Circuit Court to run a marketing process sourcing qualified overbids for the auction sale of the SKLD (Skilled Living and Development) portfolio. Dubbed Project Spartan, the portfolio comprises eleven skilled nursing and senior care facilities with 1,330 licensed beds located across the Detroit and Grand Rapids, Michigan MSAs.  The receiver was appointed in January 2024 and retained Hyper Care Management Solutions, LLC to operate the facilities. In January 2025, the stalking horse was selected and contracts were approved by the court, after which... Read More »
National REIT Divests to Cougar Capital Management

National REIT Divests to Cougar Capital Management

Haven Senior Investments facilitated a transaction between a national REIT and a real estate development firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. The seller, Summit Healthcare REIT, divested a seniors housing community in Littleton, New Hampshire, The Village at Riverglen. Built in 2002, The Village at Riverglen features 60 beds across 50 independent living and assisted living units, and will be rebranded as Riverglen House. The buyer, Cougar Capital Management, paid $8 million, or $160,000 per unit, and will bring on Willow Ridge Senior Living to manage the community going forward.  According to LevinPro LTC, Summit Healthcare acquired the community in 2015 for $8.5 million, or $170,000 per... Read More »
MedCore Divests to Publicly Traded Healthcare REIT

MedCore Divests to Publicly Traded Healthcare REIT

Ziegler announced its role as exclusive sell-side financial advisor to MedCore on the sale of Parkview on Hollybrook, a 189-unit rental CCRC in Longview, Texas. The property has been on a long road to stabilization. It was originally bought in a bankruptcy auction in 2016 for $20.7 million by Thrive FP when it was in the middle of development. 12 Oaks Senior Living brought it to the final stages of lease-up before MedCore bought the property in February 2020 and brought on Integral Senior Living to operate. Since then, Parkview on Hollybrook has stabilized and is now being sold to a publicly traded healthcare REIT. Eric Johnson and Dalton Esmond of Ziegler led the transaction. Read More »
Greystone Provides Bridge Loan for Affordable Seniors Community

Greystone Provides Bridge Loan for Affordable Seniors Community

Greystone provided a $40 million bridge loan to acquire and rehab a seniors housing community in The Bronx, New York. The financing was originated by Senior Managing Director Eric Rosenstock and Executive Vice President Jeff Englund on behalf of a joint venture between Scott Jaffee of Metropolitan Realty Group and Leo Friedman of Citadel Care Centers. Built in 1969, Kittay House comprises 295 affordable seniors units with social, recreational, and educational programs on-site as well as meals, housekeeping and easy access to healthcare and supportive services. Greystone’s interest-only non-recourse bridge loan carries a 24-month term with two six-month extension options. Read More »
Seniors Housing and Care M&A Activity Inches Up in Q2:25 but Lags Behind Q2:24

Seniors Housing and Care M&A Activity Inches Up in Q2:25 but Lags Behind Q2:24

The number of publicly announced seniors housing and care acquisitions in the second quarter of 2025 totaled 181 deals, based on new acquisition data from LevinPro LTC. This represents a 1.1% increase from the 179 transactions disclosed in the first quarter of 2025, but a 3.2% decrease from the 187 deals in Q2:24. Additionally, the $5.68 billion spent on Q2:25 transactions fell by 2.7% from the $5.84 billion spent on Q1:25 transactions, and rose by 134.7% from the $2.42 billion spent in the year-ago first quarter, based on disclosed prices.  Stripping foreign transactions from the totals of publicly announced transactions, the second quarter of 2025 saw 133 U.S. deals, or 532 on an... Read More »