• 60 Seconds with Swett: DOGE, The Budget and Healthcare Spending

    DOGE, or the Department of Government Efficiency, has been making the biggest splash in Washington, D.C. these days in terms of attention-grabbing headlines, and it appears it will try to target waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid spending as part of its efforts. Such a move could have a major impact on thousands of facilities’ bottom... Read More »
  • Apollo Acquires Bridge Investment Group

    Apollo and Bridge Investment Group Holdings have entered into a definitive agreement for Apollo to acquire Bridge in an all-stock transaction with an equity value of approximately $1.5 billion. Bridge has $50 billion of AUM in complementary sectors aligned with Apollo’s long-term growth strategy. Bridge’s seniors housing portfolio totals 62... Read More »
  • Brightview Divests to Joint Venture in Maryland

    Solera Senior Living, through a joint venture with Focus Healthcare Partners, acquired a seniors housing community in Bethesda, Maryland, from Brightview Senior Living. Built in 2019, Brightview Bethesda Woodmont comprises 92 assisted living and 21 memory care units. Occupancy was around 86% at closing, and Solera will take over operations. It... Read More »
  • Six Active Adult Communities Secure Freddie Mac Financing

    Walker & Dunlop secured a $200 million Freddie Mac financing for six active adult communities. The communities comprise more than 1,100 units in Texas, Oklahoma, North Carolina, South Carolina and Washington D.C. Average occupancy across the communities was 95% at the time of the financing. The fixed-rate, full-term interest-only loan is... Read More »
  • Focus Healthcare Partners Acquires in Minnesota

    Focus Healthcare Partners acquired a seniors housing community that comprises 288 units in Maple Grove, Minnesota. Located 12 miles northwest of downtown Minneapolis, the community, SilverCreek on Main, was built in three phases between 2015 and 2024 by Ryan Companies.  The original independent living, assisted living and memory care... Read More »
Sonida Closes Eight-Property Portfolio Deal

Sonida Closes Eight-Property Portfolio Deal

On the last day of the third quarter, Newmark’s team, which included Ryan Maconachy, Chad Lavender, Mills Poynor, Ben McElroy and Sarah Anderson, closed a couple of seniors housing deals featuring Class-A assets. First was a deal that we heard about in August, which was Sonida Senior Living’s purchase of eight seniors housing communities in the Southeast previously owned by Principal Senior Living Group.  These eight assisted living/memory care communities, operated under Principal’s Benton House brand, total 555 units, split between 383 assisted living and 172 memory care units, and average five years old, as opposed to the 19-years-old average for properties in the surrounding... Read More »
SLIB Closes Transaction Trio

SLIB Closes Transaction Trio

Senior Living Investment Brokerage reported a slew of closings in the last days of the third quarter. Starting in Arizona, the firm sold an assisted living/memory care community in Scottsdale, for an undisclosed price. Built in 1999 and renovated in 2017, the community has 96 units and was previously owned by a REIT looking to reinvest capital into its portfolio and into new acquisition opportunities. Meanwhile, the buyer is entering the Arizona market with the purchase, already with experience operating in Colorado. Vince Viverito and Brad Clousing handled the transaction.  Next, Clousing and Daniel Geraghty worked on behalf of another REIT to sell an 118-bed skilled nursing facility... Read More »
Vincent Companies Acquires in Minnesota

Vincent Companies Acquires in Minnesota

Senior Living Investment Brokerage facilitated the sale of a seniors housing community in Maplewood, Minnesota. Built in 2018, Elk Ridge comprises 50 memory care units and 66 beds across 34,491 square feet on 3.16 acres. The community will be rebranded as Boden Senior Living. The seller was a national developer looking to exit the state, with this being its only remaining seniors asset in Minnesota. The buyer was an in-state owner/operator looking to grow its footprint in Minnesota.  The buyer, Vincent Companies, acquired Elk Ridge for $9.45 million, or $189,000 per unit. Lifespark will operate the community going forward. Jason Punzel, Brad Goodsell, Vince Viverito and Jake Anderson... Read More »
Strawberry Fields REIT Buys Tennessee Campus

Strawberry Fields REIT Buys Tennessee Campus

Another family-owned skilled nursing business has exited the industry, with Evans Senior Investments handling the sale of Mabry Health Care in Gainesboro, Tennessee. Family-owned since its founding in 1979, the facility is located just 20 miles outside of Nashville. It originally focused on skilled nursing care, but the facility expanded its services in 2005 to include assisted living. Today, the facility comprises 108 total beds/units, including 80 skilled nursing beds and 28 assisted living beds across 16 units However, despite its longstanding presence in the community, Mabry Health was struggling with considerable challenges at the time it hit the market, with 71% occupancy and a... Read More »
Horizon Health Grows in Illinois

Horizon Health Grows in Illinois

Haven Senior Investments facilitated the sale of a seniors housing community in Eastern Illinois. Willowbrook Senior Living was founded by a memory care specialist and registered nurse, with the community being designed with the needs of memory care residents in mind. Two Willowbrook buildings comprised of 24 units in Marshall were included in the transaction and will be rebranded as Willowbrook – Horizon Health, following not-for-profit Horizon Health’s entry into the seniors housing space. One of the buildings will be repurposed for medical offices and the other will continue to serve memory care residents. The local seller as operator is assisting with the transition as Horizon... Read More »
American Healthcare REIT Acquires All of Trilogy

American Healthcare REIT Acquires All of Trilogy

Nine years after purchasing the majority interest in the parent company of seniors housing and care operator Trilogy Health Services, American Healthcare REIT has now bought out its minority partner, bringing its ownership stake in Trilogy to 100%. The deal was prefaced by a purchase agreement in November 2023, when AHR gained the option to buy NorthStar Healthcare Income’s 24% membership interest in Trilogy REIT Holdings, the parent organization of Trilogy Health Services, for between $240.5 million and $260 million, depending on the purchase date (they had until September 30, 2025). AHR also could use a combination of cash and the issuance of new convertible preferred stock.  Executing... Read More »