• 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 »
Owner/Operator Purchases SNF Portfolio

Owner/Operator Purchases SNF Portfolio

An Ohio-based owner/operator engaged Evans Senior Investments to sell a portfolio of skilled nursing facilities in the greater Akron area. The owner had been looking to recycle capital and successfully sold the three properties consisting of 249 skilled nursing beds and 161 seniors housing units. They included The Briarwood in Stow (built in 1991), Jackson Ridge in Canal Fulton (built in 1978) and Glenwood Care in Canton (also built in 1978). All three properties had assumable HUD debt, generating significant interest from investors during the marketing property. A growing owner/operator with a strong presence in the state was ultimately selected. The purchase price was not... Read More »
Tutera Senior Living Acquires in Illinois

Tutera Senior Living Acquires in Illinois

Tutera Senior Living & Health Care announced its latest acquisition involving a 75-unit assisted living/memory care community in Matteson, Illinois. Built in 2021 for a cost of around $21 million, or $280,000 per unit, the community formerly operated under the name Alexi Senior Living for just eight months before closing in 2022.  Tutera is making improvements and will reopen the community in early Spring. Since December 2024, Tutera has already invested $200,000 upgrading the community’s safety and mechanical equipment, systems and protocols with the assistance of Arch Design Builders. In addition, Tutera is completing minor remodeling and refreshing to enhance the property’s new and... Read More »
Joint Venture Secures Financing

Joint Venture Secures Financing

Live Oak Bank provided financing for the acquisition of Whisper Woods of Smithtown by a joint venture between National Development and Benchmark Senior Living. The previous owner, Sculptor Real Estate, refinanced the property in 2023. Live Oak provided that $29 million loan as well. Built in 2018, Whisper Woods is a 125-bed assisted living and memory care community in Suffolk County, New York. There are 71 AL units and 30 MC units across studio, one- and two-bedroom floorplans.  National Development and Benchmark also recently broke ground on an 86-unit (63 AL and 23 MC) seniors housing community in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. This marks the developer’s entry into the state. Opening is... Read More »
Joint Venture Acquires in Florida

Joint Venture Acquires in Florida

Bradley Clousing, Daniel Geraghty and Patrick Burke of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the sale of Promise Pointe at Tampa Oaks. The seller was a local developer, and this was its only seniors housing asset. Built in 2018, Promise Pointe is an 108-unit assisted living and memory care community in Tampa, Florida. This Class-A property sits on 7.18 acres and was breaking even at the time of the sale, with occupancy around 85%. The community was developed as an EB-5 program but never stabilized.  The buyer is a regional operator that partnered with an institutional capital provider. The joint venture intends to complete a cosmetic update and focus on marketing efforts to... Read More »
Texas MC Portfolio Changes Hands

Texas MC Portfolio Changes Hands

Blueprint facilitated the sale of a portfolio of standalone memory care communities in Texas on behalf of a real estate investment firm that predominantly invests in skilled nursing facilities. The three memory care communities, totaling 108 units, featured all private units in Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio. These were the seller’s only memory care assets. The deal was positioned as an opportunity for an incoming owner/operator with regional expertise to integrate the communities into an existing platform, implement key cost control measures and execute on a capex investment plan to elevate each community’s profile and drive private pay rents. Blueprint secured three competitive... Read More »
Meridian Senior Living Acquires CO Property

Meridian Senior Living Acquires CO Property

Meridian Senior Living acquired a seniors housing community in Parker, Colorado, through a joint venture with a state pension fund investor. This transaction represents the 11th acquisition within the partnership and introduces Meridian to the Colorado market. Meridian’s portfolio now comprises more than 46 communities in 16 states.  Built in 2018 with a strong rebound in occupancy post-pandemic, Pine Grove Crossing comprises 100 assisted living and 27 memory care units on 4.41 acres. Meridian intends to implement capital improvements to enhance resident amenities, including upgrading dining areas and outdoor spaces. Read More »