• 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 »
Healthpeak Properties Nears Seniors Housing Exit

Healthpeak Properties Nears Seniors Housing Exit

Healthpeak Properties has nearly completed its exit from the rental seniors housing business, selling another $1 billion of assets in the first quarter of 2021, according to its latest earnings release. This comes after approximately $2.5 billion of seniors housing dispositions in the fourth quarter of 2020, so they are clearly antsy to get out.   The latest tranche of divestments included 12 properties in PEAK’s SHOP portfolio operated by Oakmont Senior Living and totaling 1,043 units. At $564 million, or $540,750 per unit, it represents the largest deal of the quarter. And considering Healthpeak’s haste to get out, commanding that sort of per-unit... Read More »
Senior Living Investment Brokerage Ends April With Three SNF Sales

Senior Living Investment Brokerage Ends April With Three SNF Sales

Senior care M&A activity may be tepid right now, but Senior Living Investment Brokerage ended April with a bang, announcing several skilled nursing closings and several seniors housing ones too. We’ll start with the skilled nursing sales, and you can read about the seniors housing transactions here.  Brad Clousing and Matthew Alley kicked it off with the sale of a 170-bed skilled nursing facility in Mobile, Alabama. Built in 1968 and 1982, the facility was subject to a long-term ground lease with the adjacent hospital. An entire floor with over 30 beds was out of service, but the facility was just around 60% occupied at the time of the sale and historically operated between that mark... Read More »
SLIB Arranges Three Seniors Housing Transactions

SLIB Arranges Three Seniors Housing Transactions

Bradley Clousing and Matthew Alley of Senior Living Investment Brokerage continued the firm’s impressive run into the seniors housing M&A market (read about their skilled nursing deals here), selling a 170-unit independent living community in Dallas, Texas. The property actually traded at the end of 2020, with CareTrust REIT (NASDAQ: CTRE) selling to Valstone Partners. Built in 1987 and thoroughly renovated in 2013 with additional capital improvements made in 2016, CareTrust had previously converted the remaining assisted living units to independent living.   Occupancy had declined as a result, but it was steadily improving to the low-80s with a... Read More »
Welltower Acquires Philly-Area Community

Welltower Acquires Philly-Area Community

The Newmark team was busy in the Mid-Atlantic last month, having earlier closed the sale of a seniors housing community in Chesapeake, Virginia (Virginia Beach MSA). Newmark also headed up the coast to sell a 76-unit assisted living/memory care community in a suburb of Philadelphia.   A private equity fund had purchased the property several years before but experienced slightly declining census before the pandemic caused occupancy to drop to 71%. Built in 2013, the community was bringing in no positive NOI at the time of the sale to Welltower for a purchase price of $19.5 million, or $256,600 per unit. Sunrise Senior Living will take over... Read More »
American Senior Communities Acquires Terre Haute Community

American Senior Communities Acquires Terre Haute Community

Dan Revie and Tedd Van Gorden of Ziegler handled Bethesda Senior Living Communities’ sale of its community of 20 years in Terre Haute, Indiana, to the largest senior care operator in that state, American Senior Communities. In April 2019, ownership agreed to discontinue its memory care units for the next two years to resolve a civil complaint filed by the Indiana State Department of Health following the death of a memory care resident. According to the new community website, there are still no memory care services. No price was disclosed in the ownership transition.  Read More »
Merrill Commercial Real Estate Handles Two-Community Deal in California

Merrill Commercial Real Estate Handles Two-Community Deal in California

It took over a year, but Tyler Merrill of Merrill Commercial Real Estate successfully closed the sale of two assisted living communities in Redding, California. One of the communities in particular was hit hard by COVID-19, and occupancy dropped by a combined 20% across the two properties. Despite that, the same private equity buyer remained interested throughout the difficult year and kept to the same agreed-upon purchase price of $18 million, albeit with an approximate $1 million holdback in escrow until the new owner reaches pre-COVID NOI levels and 75% occupancy. Before the pandemic, the communities maintained around 88% occupancy, but there is a lot of upside in expense management.... Read More »