• 60 Seconds with Swett: Senior Care’s PR Problem

    Recently, we have seen stories circulating about the connection between REIT ownership and the way skilled nursing facilities provide care, stemming from a study written by the nonprofit journalism outlet KFF Health News. We’ve seen this before, headlines like “real estate investors profit while patients suffer,” usually with graphic cases of... Read More »
  • Blueprint Sets Pricing Record in New York State

    Blueprint advised a repeat private equity client in a record-setting sale of two standalone memory care communities in high barrier-to-entry submarkets in New York State. Combining for 104 units, these assets were purpose-built in the late 1990s and were stabilized at the time of the deal. Not only that, they were generating cash flow in excess... Read More »
  • CareTrust Keeps Its Foot on the Gas

    CareTrust REIT has deployed nearly $1 billion in closed transactions so far this year, after closing around $1.8 billion in investment activity in 2025, and its pipeline includes $450 million of near-term, actionable opportunities, excluding larger portfolio transactions. The REIT announced that it closed a few separate transactions in mid-April,... Read More »
  • VIUM Capital Announces Slew of HUD Closings

    VIUM Capital closed four HUD 232/223(f) financings in March totaling more than $63 million across a mix of skilled nursing and seniors housing communities. Two of the financings involved skilled nursing facilities in Oklahoma totaling 176 beds. The assets were originally acquired as part of a larger portfolio and refinanced following a... Read More »
  • Lument Secures HUD Express Lane Transaction

    Lument closed a refinance through HUD’s Express Lane for a 120-unit seniors housing community in Lincoln, Nebraska. Built in 2017, Pemberly Place Senior Living features 132 licensed beds and offers independent living, assisted living and memory care services. It also has an on-site medical clinic to offer a range of other healthcare services. The... Read More »
Older, Underperforming Ohio SNF Sold By ESI

Older, Underperforming Ohio SNF Sold By ESI

Evans Senior Investments (ESI) closed the sale of a 180-bed skilled nursing facility in Ohio for $10.75 million, or $60,000 per bed. Built in 1965 with a $220,000 renovation in 2019, the facility has nine private units with the rest being semi-private occupancy. In 2019, the facility posted $10.3 million in total revenue and 72% occupancy. Despite the large revenue generation, the facility was not very profitable due to the below average Medicaid rate and low post-acute rehabilitation census. Beginning in March 2020, the facility’s census began to decline to a low of 43% due to bans on admissions and a lack of elective surgeries from hospitals resulting from the pandemic. ESI represented... Read More »
Two Communities Sell By Ziegler Team

Two Communities Sell By Ziegler Team

Ziegler’s Dan Revie and Tedd Van Gorden arranged a couple of recent seniors housing sales. First, the Reserve at Arlington Heights, a 42-unit memory care community located in Arlington Heights, Illinois, sold to Inspired Healthcare Capital (IHC). IHC is a Scottsdale, Arizona-based private real estate investment firm that focuses on the healthcare sector, which also purchased eight assisted living communities across Oregon and Washington in 2020. Built in 2014 by The LaSalle Group as an “Autumn Leaves” community, this campus has over 30,000 square feet and sold for $12.6 million, or $300,000 per unit. It was performing very well at the time of sale, with occupancy near 100%. The... Read More »
New York Investment Firm Buys Four Massachusetts SNFs

New York Investment Firm Buys Four Massachusetts SNFs

A New York-based investment firm purchased four skilled nursing facilities in Worcester County, Massachusetts. Vantage Point Capital, LLC, a real estate investment firm with a focus on the healthcare and multifamily sectors, made the purchases through a subsidiary, which totaled around $40.4 million, or $68,600 per bed, according to local news sources.   The acquisition includes the 162-bed Parsons Hill Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Worcester, the 135-bed Webster Manor Rehabilitation & Health Care Center in Webster, the 96-bed Lanessa Extended Care also in Webster and the 196-bed Marlborough Hills Rehabilitation & Health Care Center in Marlborough. All were previously... Read More »
Genesis Exits Idaho

Genesis Exits Idaho

Genesis HealthCare decided to exit the Idaho market, prompting its REIT landlord, National Health Investors, to divest its senior care property in Nampa (Boise MSA). The single-story community, which features 107 independent living units, 18 assisted living units and 42 licensed skilled nursing beds, was Genesis’ only asset in the state.   Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors’ Michael Segal, Blake Bozett and Lauren Nagle positioned the property as a value-add opportunity, with the potential to realign the different care levels. Cascades Healthcare, a skilled nursing operator started by four healthcare clinicians in 2014 that has now grown to 15 SNFs in Utah and Idaho, emerged as the... Read More »
Not-For-Profit Community in North Carolina Changes Hands

Not-For-Profit Community in North Carolina Changes Hands

The Well-Spring Group has entered into an agreement with Cone Health to acquire The Village at Brookwood, a 47-acre CCRC in Burlington, North Carolina. Building finished in 2003, and the community consists of 110 apartments in a five-story building; 45 one-story garden homes; and a health care center with 48 rooms licensed for assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing care. The community was originally designed to accommodate about 340 residents, and current census is reported to be 247 residents, placing occupancy around 75%. The community offers living options from $2,339 to $4,453.  Back in mid-2001 when construction began, The Village was financed through a North Carolina... Read More »
Convivial Life Acquires Beachside AL/MC Community

Convivial Life Acquires Beachside AL/MC Community

Grandbridge Real Estate Capital has arranged the sale of The Cabana at Jensen Dunes, a 126-unit assisted living and memory care community in Jensen Beach, Florida to Florida-based not-for-profit Convival Life. Opened in August 2016, the beachside community had 85% occupancy at the time of sale. Convival also purchased an adjacent 11.35-acre development parcel entitled for more than 210 independent living units. The combined purchase price was $32.5 million.  The seller, One HC–Jensen Beach LLC, is an investment group who utilized the 142d bond program, along with EB5 financing, to develop the project. Performance through the COVID-19 pandemic was steady, and the community saw some... Read More »