• CBRE’s Active 2025 and Q1:26 Projections

    CBRE’s National Senior Housing team announced its 2025 activity, with $3.1 billion in total transaction volume. Debt originations and equity placements comprised $1.95 billion of that total, and were completed across 25 states. Meanwhile, the investment sales side closed $1.15 billion in deals, selling 27 properties across 14 states. The... Read More »
  • Underperforming AL/MC Assets Sell in Michigan

    A buyer with operational expertise and capital resources acquired two seniors housing communities that were not stabilized at the time of sale. The new owner intends to stabilize performance, implement targeted management improvements and reposition the assets. Current rates are priced below local competitors, offering upside through rate... Read More »
  • Global Real Estate Investor Enters Seniors Housing

    Blueprint revisited a familiar property, selling it on behalf of a joint venture that originally purchased it through another Blueprint-led sales process. The partnership was between a global private equity firm and a seniors housing sponsor, and at the time of its acquisition, the community was struggling. But they renovated all units and common... Read More »
  • LTC Properties Gets Early Start on 2026 SHOP Acquisitions

    LTC Properties started the year off with a large SHOP acquisition in Atlanta, Georgia. The portfolio comprises three seniors housing communities with nearly 400 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. The assets were built between 2014 and 2018, and were stabilized at the time of sale at 92% occupancy. LTC Properties will... Read More »
  • 1019 Senior Living Enters Another State

    1019 Senior Living entered a new state through its fifth seniors housing acquisition. The Indiana-based owner/operator purchased Arden Courts at Kenwood, rebranded as Belle’s Place of Kenwood, which was previously operated by Evergreen Senior Living. Built in 2002 with a new roof added in 2016, the asset sits in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the Kenwood... Read More »
Wachusett Healthcare Acquires in Connecticut

Wachusett Healthcare Acquires in Connecticut

Waschusett Healthcare, a provider of skilled nursing and rehabilitation services in Connecticut, acquired Beechwood Post Acute and Transitional Care. Built in 1898, Beechwood is in New London, Connecticut, with 60 beds. The purchase price was not disclosed. Waschusett has served as a consulting partner to Beechwood for the past three years. Read More »
Ziegler Handles Christian Horizons’ Portfolio Divestment

Ziegler Handles Christian Horizons’ Portfolio Divestment

Ziegler announced its role as exclusive sell-side financial advisor to Midwest Christian Villages (doing business as Christian Horizons) in the sale of its senior living and care portfolio pursuant to Section 363 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. The sale of substantially all the company’s assets closed in multiple transactions on or before February 28th, 2025. Nick Glaisner handled the transaction. Christian Horizons was one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit, faith-based organizations and offered a comprehensive continuum of care that included over 1,200 independent living, assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing units/beds. The organization served older adults in Illinois,... Read More »
Blueprint’s Recent Activity

Blueprint’s Recent Activity

Blueprint recently closed three transactions involving skilled nursing facilities. First, a legacy owner/operator engaged Connor Doherty and Ryan Kelly of Blueprint to facilitate the sale of a skilled nursing facility in Dayton, Ohio. Grafton Oaks comprises 99 beds and was cash flow negative at the time of sale. The seller was divesting their only asset to retire from the industry. Blueprint targeted a select group of well-capitalized investors and regional operators with a strong understanding of skilled nursing operations and Ohio regulatory considerations. Multiple groups expressed interest with the ultimate buyer being an owner looking to expand its presence in Southwest Ohio. The... Read More »
Brookdale Closes Two Portfolio Acquisitions

Brookdale Closes Two Portfolio Acquisitions

Brookdale Senior Living announced the closing of two portfolio acquisitions, completing the three-portfolio, 41-property acquisition plan initially announced in September 2024. Through ownership of these communities, including the 11-property portfolio acquisition completed in December 2024, Brookdale is coming closer to its year-end goal of owning more than 75% of its consolidated unit count. In one deal, Brookdale acquired five communities (686 units) previously leased from Welltower for $175 million, or $255,100 per unit. Averaging around 25 years in age, the communities are primarily located in affluent or very affluent markets and together comprise 270 independent living units, 170... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Closes Colorado Deal

Walker & Dunlop Closes Colorado Deal

Walker & Dunlop’s Gideon Orion, Tony Cassie and Sam Thompson recently facilitated the sale of a struggling, Class-A, 134-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Denver metro area. The community first opened in 2016, financed via Series 2017A and 2017B tax-exempt state bonds, and it is still among the newest senior living assets in its market. The seller, a regional not-for-profit CCRC owner/operator, took over management in late 2023 on an interim basis as part of a not-for-profit merger. They, along with the bondholders, exclusively engaged Walker & Dunlop for the deal team’s bond-financed and non-profit asset disposition experience, to execute the transaction for all... Read More »
Ensign Grows Again

Ensign Grows Again

The Ensign Group announced two separate transactions that closed on the same day involving several assets. First, Ensign acquired the real estate and operations of Citrus Heights Respiratory and Rehabilitation, a 204-bed skilled nursing facility, and Springdale Village Post Acute, a 122-bed skilled nursing facility, both in Mesa, Arizona. The real estate was acquired by a subsidiary of Standard Bearer Healthcare REIT, Inc.  Ensign next acquired the real estate and operations of Polaris Extended Care and Polaris Transitional Care, a skilled nursing facility with 146 beds in Anchorage, Alaska; Horizon House, a 90-unit seniors housing community in Anchorage, Alaska; Mt. Angel Health and... Read More »