• Owner/Operator Grows Its Seniors Housing Portfolio

    1019 Senior Living acquired its second seniors housing community in Ohio, bringing its growing portfolio to six assets. The seller of The Cottages of Clayton was a Tennessee-based skilled nursing provider. Located in Dayton on seven acres, the community consists of six assisted living cottages with 15 units each, totaling 90 beds, and is Medicaid... Read More »
  • 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 »
Alta Senior Living Expands in South Florida

Alta Senior Living Expands in South Florida

Alta Senior Living acquired Palm Beach Memory Care, a newly built memory care community located in North Palm Beach. Around 20% of its 60 units were already pre-leased when the community opened. Dan Baker of JLL arranged the sale, but no other details were disclosed. Alta’s portfolio is spread across the country, with locations in Colorado, California, Minnesota and Florida. Its regional headquarters is located near the new Palm Beach community and two other South Florida communities in Tequesta and Margate.  Read More »
Haven Senior Investments Handles Two Deals

Haven Senior Investments Handles Two Deals

Haven Senior Investments announced the sale of two assisted living communities in Texas and Missouri. The faith-based advisory and brokerage firm handled the transactions on behalf of two long-standing family owners. First was the sale of a 33-unit/64-bed assisted living community in northwestern Missouri, near Kansas City. Its local owner/operator decided to retire and sell the community to a private equity company headquartered in New York. This acquisition marks the buyer’s second foray into Missouri, after the company purchased another property in the region in June. Robin Gestal, Haven’s Chief Operating Officer, and her team handled the transaction. Next, Managing Director... Read More »
Physician Medical Group M&A Rebounds in Q2:23

Physician Medical Group M&A Rebounds in Q2:23

M&A activity in the Physician Medical Group (PMG) sector increased in Q2:23, reaching a total of 148 transactions, according to data captured in LevinPro LTC’s sister platform, LevinPro HC. Activity in Q2:23 marks a 6% increase from Q1:23 when 139 acquisitions were reported but matches data from Q2:22 when 147 deals were announced. Private equity firms and their sponsored platforms remain the most active investors in the market, accounting for 62% of all announced transactions. PE firms targeted dental practices in more than a third of the transactions, making them the hottest vertical in the physician market, followed by eyecare providers. MB2 Dental Solutions, a portfolio company of... Read More »
Blueprint Sells Another Oklahoma Seniors Housing Community

Blueprint Sells Another Oklahoma Seniors Housing Community

A national Seattle-based developer/investor and a Seattle-based operator, sold an assisted living and memory care community in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The community opened in late 2017 and has over 110 units. Like so many communities that opened around that time, its lease-up and performance were hindered going into, and through, the pandemic. However, in the previous 12 months before the transaction, the community showed signs of resurgence and there was positive cash flow. The seller chose to divest to reprioritize capital given the lack of scale in Oklahoma and proximity to its development pipeline. The buyer was a growing regional operator that partnered with an institutional investor. Alex... Read More »
Seniors Housing and Care M&A Activity Rebounds Above 100 Deals in Q2:23

Seniors Housing and Care M&A Activity Rebounds Above 100 Deals in Q2:23

The number of publicly announced seniors housing and care acquisitions in the second quarter of 2023 rose to 110 deals, based on new acquisition data from LevinPro LTC. This represents an 11% increase from the 99 transactions disclosed in the first quarter of 2023, but a 25% decline from the 147 deals in Q2:22. In addition, the $1.29 billion spent on Q2:23 transactions fell by 4% from the $1.345 billion spent on Q1:23 transactions and by 63% from the $3.5 billion spent in the year-ago second quarter, based on disclosed prices. “Despite spiking capital costs and liquidity issues in the debt markets, buyers and sellers closed more transactions in the second quarter” stated Ben Swett, Editor... Read More »
Home Health & Hospice M&A Activity Increases 20% in Q2:23

Home Health & Hospice M&A Activity Increases 20% in Q2:23

Merger and acquisition activity in the Home Health & Hospice (HH&H) sector increased by 20% in Q2:23, according to data captured in LevinPro LTC’s sister platform, LevinPro HC. Despite this growth, the second quarter of 2023 also had a 14% decrease in activity compared with Q2:22, when 28 HH&H acquisitions were announced. The most active subsector in the HH&H space was home health with 12 deals, followed by home hospice and palliative care and durable medical equipment/respiratory home care each with five deals and multi-service with two deals. Additionally, private equity firms and/or their portfolio companies represented 33% of the buyers in the HH&H M&A market... Read More »