• SLIB’s Red-Hot Start to May

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage shot out of the gates in May, announcing six separate closings within just a couple of days. The closings included a couple of portfolios, two seniors housing asset sales and two skilled nursing deals. SLIB is on track for another record-breaking year. The largest deal was an eight-property seniors housing... Read More »
  • Independent Living Asset Near Breakeven Changes Hands

    Blueprint handled the sale of a 60-unit independent living community located just outside of Cleveland, Ohio. At the time of sale, the property was operating around breakeven and offered the opportunity for upside. The option to transition the community to an assisted living waiver model was presented, but the incoming regional owner/operator... Read More »
  • National Health Investors Leans Further Into SHOP Growth

    National Health Investors is continuing to lean into its SHOP segment, having invested $742.5 million into the strategy throughout the first quarter, a 106% increase from the prior year period. Year-to-date, the REIT has announced $212.4 million of investments, and is continuing to evaluate additional opportunities, focusing on private pay... Read More »
  • Senior Care Portfolio Secures Refinancing

    T7 Capital, a boutique seniors housing and healthcare advisory firm founded by industry veterans Ari Adlerstein and Josh Simpson, recently arranged a large bank refinancing for a portfolio of seniors housing and skilled nursing assets in Massachusetts. Working on behalf of a New York-based family office, T7 secured a $57.979 million loan from... Read More »
  • Regional Bank Provides Financing for MC Community

    Jeremy Warren of Montgomery Intermediary Group arranged a refinancing for a client’s 48-unit memory care community in Merrillville, Indiana. Originally built in 2016, the community was stabilized and had an approaching debt maturity. The owner sought to retire both the existing bank debt and an outstanding seller note from the initial... Read More »
Investor Enters Seniors Housing Sector

Investor Enters Seniors Housing Sector

Stone Brook Assisted Living in the Dallas, Texas MSA, has traded hands from a single-community owner/operator to a regionally-based investor. The seller was looking to enter retirement, and the investor wanted to make their first investment in the seniors housing space. Both seller and buyer agreed to pause the process in Fall 2025 to allow the seller to make some final adjustments, and after picking back up, the transaction moved quickly towards closing. The process was handled by Daniel Morris of Plains Commercial Real Estate. The physical plant sits in Denison, Texas, and presents well. It totals 44 assisted living units with 60 beds. Read More »
Public Company Divests in Arizona

Public Company Divests in Arizona

A publicly traded company focused on seniors housing recently divested a community in Mesa, Arizona. The asset features 68 assisted living and memory care units, and offered meaningful upside potential. Amy Sitzman, Kyle Hallion and Jake Rice of Blueprint handled the deal, which saw a competitive process with multiple offers from groups looking to expand in the East Valley. The public company ultimately selected a buyer with an established footprint in the market. Read More »
Owner/Operator Grows Its Seniors Housing Portfolio

Owner/Operator Grows Its Seniors Housing Portfolio

1019 Senior Living acquired its second seniors housing community in Ohio, bringing its growing portfolio to six assets. The seller of The Cottages of Clayton was a Tennessee-based skilled nursing provider. Located in Dayton on seven acres, the community consists of six assisted living cottages with 15 units each, totaling 90 beds, and is Medicaid waiver approved. The physical plant presents well, originally built in 2000 with renovations completed in 2024 and 2025. 1019 Senior Living plans to implement light refreshes across the individual cottages.  At the time of the sale, the community was 97% occupied, supported by a strong local reputation and steady referral sources, and was... Read More »
Wyoming SNF Sale Sets New State Record

Wyoming SNF Sale Sets New State Record

There was a new record set for skilled nursing pricing in the state of Wyoming with the sale of Big Horn Rehabilitation and Care Center in Sheridan. Built in the 1960s, the facility features 128 beds and was 61% occupied. It was owned by a regional operator that was looking to recycle capital.  Before the marketing process, Evans Senior Investments was able to identify over $250,000 in potential annual savings on rehabilitation expenses and $87,000 in pharmacy savings. And the firm drove a competitive bidding process that successfully secured a record price of $20 million, or $156,250 per bed, based on the facility’s future stabilized potential rather than its current performance. The deal... Read More »
Owner/Operator Acquires Facility Out of Bankruptcy

Owner/Operator Acquires Facility Out of Bankruptcy

A senior care facility in Worcester, Massachusetts, sold as part of a bankruptcy process with the help of Patrick Burke and Toby Siefert of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Built in 1970, Donna Kay Rest Home features 60 licensed beds in 31 units, providing a higher level of care and supervision than assisted living but at a lesser acuity than skilled nursing. Occupancy was nearly full, and the facility was profitable but operated below a 10% margin. The local owner, Steve Dashevsky, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on the facility in December 2024, around 16 years after he originally purchased the rest home. And SLIB was engaged by the seller and bankruptcy counsel to market... Read More »
Civitas Sells Community to Clarion

Civitas Sells Community to Clarion

Hap Knowles and Nick Stahler of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Institutional Property Advisors announced that they led the sale of a seniors housing community in the Phoenix, Arizona MSA, to the fast-growing real estate investment firm Clarion Partners. The deal appears to be The Retreat at Alameda, a 110-unit assisted living/memory care community in Phoenix that will be taken over by Stellar Senior Living as the operator.  The Retreat at Alameda broke ground in 2019, with Paradigm Senior Living operating the community upon opening in 2020. It was apparently approaching stabilized occupancy and positive cash flow, but it was not stabilized nor a cap rate deal. Knowles and Stahler... Read More »