• Ensign Makes a Splash in Texas

    The Ensign Group closed out April with a bang, announcing the acquisition of the real estate and operations of 17 skilled nursing facilities spread across Texas, plus the real estate of two seniors housing communities in Wisconsin.  The Texas portfolio is majority-SNF, with 2,080 skilled nursing beds. There are also some seniors housing... Read More »
  • Public REIT Sells Value-Add Community to Joint Venture

    Kandu Capital, a family office specializing in real estate and healthcare, and its operating company, Bloom Senior Living, acquired an assisted living/memory care community in Ohio after strategically divesting a number of skilled nursing, behavioral health and seniors housing assets at healthy valuations. Those dispositions were initially... Read More »
  • Not-for-Profit Divests Its CCRC Portfolio to Another Not-for-Profit

    A portfolio of CCRCs in South-Central Pennsylvania changed hands from one faith-based not-for-profit organization to another, with Toby Siefert and Dave Balow of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handling the process. The pair represented the seller, SpiriTrust Lutheran, an 80-year-old operator based in York, Pennsylvania, in the sale of six... Read More »
  • AL/MC Community Trending Towards Stabilization Sells

    Blueprint’s suite of services was on display in the sale and financing of an assisted living/memory care community in Fredericksburg, Texas. Built in 2018, The Villages of Windcrest was performing well at the time of marketing, and was trending towards stabilization. Newer, performing properties are getting the most interest in the M&A market... Read More »
  • Montgomery Intermediary Group Brings on New Advisor

    Continuing its momentum in 2026, Montgomery Intermediary Group (MIG) announced that it hired Colin Thomas, CFA as an investment sales advisor. In this role, Thomas will lead seniors housing and skilled nursing transactions across Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana, expanding MIG’s coverage and capabilities in these markets. Thomas’s... Read More »
Presbyterian Senior Living Selling Two Communities to Tryko Partners

Presbyterian Senior Living Selling Two Communities to Tryko Partners

In an effort to expand their already large portfolio of more than 6,000 skilled nursing and assisted living beds, Tryko Partners has entered into a contract of sale under which they will purchase two senior care communities from Presbyterian Senior Living, a not-for-profit senior care provider.  The target communities include Westminster Village, a 178-bed CCRC in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and Heritage Run, a 34-unit independent living community in Baltimore, Maryland. Upon the anticipated summer 2021 closing, Tryko plans to launch a capital improvement program to fully modernize Westminster Village, which was built in 1967 and saw additions in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 2008. The Baltimore... Read More »
Welltower Announces Investments, Credit Facilities & a New Hire

Welltower Announces Investments, Credit Facilities & a New Hire

Welltower came out with a flurry of announcements yesterday, all significant and all seemingly good news. To start, John Burkart was appointed Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and will start on July 19. Already ensconced in the REIT world, Mr. Burkart comes from the multifamily sector, having spent 25 years at Essex Property Trust where he rose to Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. At Welltower, he will assume responsibilities for platform-wide operations, asset and portfolio management, data analytics, research and joint venture partnerships, utilizing a data-driven approach to drive platform efficiencies, capital allocation decisions and... Read More »
LTC Properties Divests Three ALFs in Wisconsin

LTC Properties Divests Three ALFs in Wisconsin

In the ongoing plan to reposition its relationship with Senior Lifestyle Corporation, LTC Properties has sold three assisted living communities in Wisconsin. The sales price was $35.0 million, or about $133,100 per unit.   The three communities had a combined net book value of $28.3 million, and the estimated gain for LTC on the sale is approximately $5.6 million. There was no debt on the communities, so the net sales proceeds of $34.0 million were used to pay down the REIT’s unsecured revolving line of credit.   In the first quarter this year, LTC had transitioned 11 Senior Lifestyle assisted living communities in Wisconsin, Ohio and Illinois to two... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Assists in Oregon Assisted Living Sale

Walker & Dunlop Assists in Oregon Assisted Living Sale

Tony Cassie & Sam Thompson of Walker & Dunlop closed the sale of a 64-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Olympia, Washington area. The team went from escrow to closing in just four months. A local investor was the seller and planned to exit the seniors housing business altogether with the deal.   A regional private investor paid an undisclosed sum for the property. Built in 2005, the community was 91% occupied at the time of sale.  Read More »
Meridian Capital Group Finishes May with a Flourish

Meridian Capital Group Finishes May with a Flourish

Meridian Capital Group is having quite the year, already with $2.7 billion in transaction volume closed to date in 2021. Most recently, the firm closed more than $390 million in deals for a combination of 42 skilled nursing, independent living, assisted living and memory care properties in nine states. Meridian’s Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin, Josh Simpson, Matt Lesnik, Jesse Rauch, David Gottlieb, Jacob Scott and Rafi Sod negotiated the transactions. Maybe a well-deserved summer vacation is on the horizon now? Beaches are open.  On the M&A side, the team closed a number of sales, the largest being the $74 million sale of six skilled nursing facilities comprising 925 beds in... Read More »
The SLIB Team Sells AL/MC in Oregon

The SLIB Team Sells AL/MC in Oregon

There has been a lot of talk about pricing, both during the pandemic and as we are coming out of it. Is it a buyer’s market, or a seller’s market? Should you be conservative, or aggressive and take advantage of the current positive momentum? How about being just right?  In a transaction that just closed on June 1, Jason Punzel, Vince Viverito and Brad Goodsell of Senior Living Investment Brokerage represented the regional owner/operator of a 95-unit assisted living and memory care community located in Oregon. Built in 1997 with a renovation in 2015, it is licensed for 107 beds and has an occupancy rate of 92%. Yes, through the pandemic they mostly kept COVID out and the... Read More »