• ESI Adds Capital Markets & Debt Advisory Team

    Evans Senior Investments has expanded its platform to now include a dedicated Capital Markets & Debt Advisory team to source debt solutions for its clients. Complementary to its brokerage/investment sales services and benefitting from Evans’ robust lender network, the new platform will facilitate acquisition financings, refinancings,... Read More »
  • Optimism across the Board in BBG’s Investor Survey Results

    Ben Swett, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, sat down with R.J. DeBee, Senior Managing Director – Seniors Housing & Healthcare National Practice Leader of BBG Real Estate Services, to discuss the biggest takeaways of BBG’s fifth Annual Investor Survey. Read More »
  • Lument Closes Freddie Mac Refinance

    Lument closed a $26.8 million Freddie Mac refinance for Treeo South Ogden, a 143-unit independent living community in Ogden, Utah, approximately 30 miles north of Salt Lake City. Tyler Armstrong, Chris Cain and Taylor Russ, all managing directors with Lument, led the transaction. Treeo South Ogden was purpose-built in 2015, and has been owned and... Read More »
  • Berkadia Handles Detroit-Area Deal

    Berkadia closed the sale of Oakleigh of Macomb, an 85-unit assisted living/memory care community in Macomb, Michigan (Detroit MSA). Built in 2019, the community has 55 assisted living and 30 memory care units. It was 91% occupied, so given its vintage and performance, we imagine it attracted significant investor interest. Berkadia represented the... Read More »
  • Developer Divests MC Communities to Kalesta Healthcare

    G Capital helped facilitate the sale of two memory care communities in Silicon Valley in an off-market transaction. Calson Management, a developer/operator based in Vacaville, California, had acquired Silver Oaks Memory Care in Menlo Park and Crescent Oaks Memory Care in Sunnyvale several years ago as value-add opportunities. The firm... Read More »

Blueprint Handles Large SNF Deal in Pennsylvania

Not-for-profit to for-profit are not easy, and it took a two-year process for Blueprint to successfully close the sale of a 250-bed skilled nursing facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The property appears to be Cheltenham Nursing & Rehabilitation, one of three skilled nursing facilities owned by Dublin, Ohio-based American Health Foundation (AHF) that had agreed with the United States Department of Justice in June 2025 to pay $3.61 million to resolve claims related to billing Medicare and Medicaid for “grossly substandard skilled nursing services between 2016 and 2018.” The facilities were sued by the DOJ in June 2022 when the United States alleged that each facility failed to... Read More »

JDI Realty Buys Alpharetta Asset

A partnership recently acquired Chapters Living of Alpharetta, a 79-unit assisted living/memory care community in Alpharetta, Georgia (Atlanta MSA). Built in 2013, the high-quality community was previously known as Addington Place of Alpharetta. JDI Realty, in partnership with Purity Strategies and Chapters Senior Living, bought the community for an undisclosed price.  Chapters operates two nearby communities and looks to continue expanding in the greater Atlanta area. The community will be renamed Chapters Living of Alpharetta. The deal brings JDI Realty’s seniors housing portfolio to eight properties and approximately 1,000 units across the country. Read More »
Public REIT Divests to Owner/Operator

Public REIT Divests to Owner/Operator

Blueprint facilitated the sale of a Massachusetts skilled nursing facility on behalf of a public REIT in the senior care sector. The REIT determined that the facility was a strong candidate for sale due to its location. Plus, the former operator was switching focus to other assets in its mutual portfolio.  Purpose-built in 1982 with significant renovations in 2006, the 78-bed facility is in Brighton, a neighborhood of Boston. The 91%-occupied building benefits from its proximity to Boston Medical Center – Brighton, just one mile away. At the time of sale, revenues exceeded $10 million annually.  Blueprint targeted both skilled nursing and behavioral health buyers. There were... Read More »
Development Company Acquires Through Membership Buyout

Development Company Acquires Through Membership Buyout

A Missouri-based real estate developer engaged Blueprint to facilitate its membership buyout of a joint venture partner. Brooks Blackmon, Ben Firestone and Lauren Nagle handled the transaction. Four years ago, the firm was brought on to raise capital, ultimately sourcing an institutional capital partner to develop a private pay seniors housing community in the St. Louis, Missouri MSA. The Class-A community, with more than 150 independent living, assisted living and memory care units, opened its doors in January 2024, stabilizing after the lease-up period. At the time of recapitalization, the asset was generating approximately $3.7 million of annualized EBITDAR with an operating margin over... Read More »
Seller Exits Seniors Industry with Divestment to REIT

Seller Exits Seniors Industry with Divestment to REIT

A single-asset seniors housing owner is exiting the industry with the sale of their property in Murrieta, California. Built in 2016 and 2018, Renaissance Village Murrieta has 142 units of assisted living and memory care in three stories. It was operating just below 70% occupancy, so there is plenty of room for a new owner to improve performance and increase value. That buyer was a REIT, which will be partnering with an established West Coast operator that has a growing presence in California. Brad Goodsell, Jason Punzel and Vince Viverito of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the transaction, continuing an incredibly active October for the firm. Read More »
Deal Closes Following Buyer Withdrawals

Deal Closes Following Buyer Withdrawals

After a long process that saw multiple buyers pull out from the deal, the sale of Sarah Neuman Skilled Nursing Facility in Mamaroneck, New York, has closed with the help of Mark Myers at Kiser Group. Owned by a religious not-for-profit organization, The New Jewish Home, the facility features 301 beds and was losing money. Myers had previously facilitated the 2016 sale of the seller’s 744-bed SNF in The Bronx for $110 million and, earlier this year, the sale of a 300-unit independent living community on the same Bronx campus for $40.5 million.  The transaction faced some hurdles, including a challenging financing environment and stringent regulatory requirements from New York State that... Read More »