• 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 »
Evans Senior Investments Facilitates SNF Sale in New Mexico

Evans Senior Investments Facilitates SNF Sale in New Mexico

Evans Senior Investments represented the seller of a 100-bed skilled nursing facility in New Mexico for an undisclosed amount. A Chicago-based skilled nursing facility owner bought the facility from a regional owner/operator based in Louisiana. The acquisition presented an opportunity for a new operator to grow its presence in New Mexico.  The facility, which was built in the late 1990s, is approximately 50 miles away from the nearest nursing home in New Mexico. Shortly before going to market, it experienced an outbreak of COVID-19, which led to the loss of over 25 residents and lowered occupancy to an all-time low of 46% (after averaging 93% in fiscal year 2019). However, census... Read More »
NewPoint Acquires HHC Finance’s HUD Businesses

NewPoint Acquires HHC Finance’s HUD Businesses

NewPoint Real Estate Capital LLC, a joint venture between Meridian Capital Group and Barings, announced that it has acquired certain assets of Housing & Healthcare Finance, including its FHA multifamily and healthcare origination business and its loan servicing portfolio. This deal augments NewPoint’s existing HUD lending services and also its healthcare and seniors housing financing capabilities. For HHC Finance, the firm gains the backing of NewPoint’s scale and its own range of services offered, now including a multifamily bridge lending program which was launched earlier this month to provide loans of $5 million to $50 million with... Read More »
Not-For-Profit Indiana Community Sells to For-Profit Owner

Not-For-Profit Indiana Community Sells to For-Profit Owner

A not-for-profit assisted living community in Georgetown, Indiana is set to sell to a for-profit owner at the end of this year. Few details were released, but we learned that Senior Living Investment Brokerage was involved in the sale. A New Jersey-based firm, with Joseph Glatzer serving as one of the principals, was revealed as the buyer.   The community opened in 2008 under the ownership of Providence Self Sufficiency Ministries, providing “small house” senior care services. Each 7,100-square-feet villa contains 10 private bedrooms, private bathrooms, a large living room with fireplace, an open kitchen and dining room, a therapeutic spa, a den, a patio/garden and a small office... Read More »
Operator Exits Texas Skilled Nursing Facility

Operator Exits Texas Skilled Nursing Facility

Senior Living Investment Brokerage’s Matthew Alley handled the sale of Retama Manor Nursing Home, a 142-bed SNF in Victoria, Texas. Built in 1969, the 29,510-square-foot facility sits on three acres and has a 50% occupancy. Its revenue came close to $4.7 million, which does not include additional QIPP revenue, but the facility was not profitable. A healthy bidding environment for the facility pushed the price above asking, or more than $25,000 per bed. The seller is an independent owner that had a lease in place with an operator that chose to exit when its agreement expires on December 31, 2021. The buyer is an owner/operator that will be taking over operations on January 1, 2022. The... Read More »
Capitol Seniors Housing Sells High-End Portfolio

Capitol Seniors Housing Sells High-End Portfolio

REITs and private equity firms were responsible for the largest transactions recorded in November, and most recently, an institutional private equity fund first spent approximately $250 million in cash on a portfolio of six seniors housing communities owned by Capitol Seniors Housing. Four of the communities, including three operated by Arbor Company and one by Chelsea Senior Living, were developed in the last few years in Maryland (2) and New Jersey (2). There was also a 92-unit assisted living/memory care community in Tampa, Florida acquired in 2015 (upon certificate of occupancy) for $20 million, or $217,400 per unit, and an 80-unit independent living community in... Read More »
Savannah Senior Living Community Sells

Savannah Senior Living Community Sells

Brad Clousing and Dan Geraghty of Senior Living Investment Brokerage sold a 59-unit independent/assisted living community in Savannah, Georgia for an undisclosed price. Built in 1991 and 1992, the community had a well-maintained physical plant and recently converted from a personal care license to assisted living. Occupancy was in the 60s. The seller was looking to divest the property in order to focus on the development of their larger campus-style assets and decided to sell to Mainstay Senior Living.  Read More »