• NHI and National HealthCare Corporation Ending Master Lease

    In a move to concentrate its portfolio on private pay seniors housing, National Health Investors divested a large skilled nursing portfolio for $560 million, before estimated transaction costs between $6 million and $8 million. The buyer was the current lessee, National HealthCare Corporation, whose legacy master lease was established in 1991 and... Read More »
  • Seniors Housing Communities Sell in Southwest Florida

    Berkadia has announced a couple of closings in southwest Florida. First, Brooks Minford headed to the Tampa, Florida area to sell a 138-unit assisted living/memory care community on behalf of a local developer that was looking to exit the seniors housing business. They had built Tessera of Brandon in 2017 to feature a mix of 98 assisted living... Read More »
  • Global Investment Firm Re-Enters the Senior Care Industry

    Global alternative investment firm Investcorp has re-entered the seniors housing sphere after its exit in 2008. The company has acquired three communities in Massachusetts, California, and New York, all within a short period.  The Massachusetts community is in Boston, and it offers both independent living and affordable seniors housing... Read More »
  • Investor Enters Seniors Housing Sector

    Stone Brook Assisted Living in the Dallas, Texas MSA, has traded hands from a single-community owner/operator to a regionally-based investor. The seller was looking to enter retirement, and the investor wanted to make their first investment in the seniors housing space. Both seller and buyer agreed to pause the process in Fall 2025 to allow the... Read More »
  • Public Company Divests in Arizona

    A publicly traded company focused on seniors housing recently divested a community in Mesa, Arizona. The asset features 68 assisted living and memory care units, and offered meaningful upside potential. Amy Sitzman, Kyle Hallion and Jake Rice of Blueprint handled the deal, which saw a competitive process with multiple offers from groups looking... 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 »
REIT Divests in Cleveland MSA

REIT Divests in Cleveland MSA

A public REIT and its operating partner strategically divested an 88-unit assisted living and memory care community in the Cleveland, Ohio MSA, with Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors handling the transaction. The community, originally built in 1998, was positioned as a value-add opportunity for buyers to capitalize on the local market’s strong demand fundamentals and focus on lower acuity residents.  A targeted marketing process procured interest from a variety of Ohio-based groups, many of which were eager to utilize the Ohio Assisted Living Medicaid Waiver Program. Blueprint sourced a well-capitalized private owner/operator seeking to grow its scale within the Cleveland market.... Read More »