• Publicly Traded REIT Acquires in Colorado

    The Walker & Dunlop Seniors Housing team started the year off strong, with two closings in January. W&D first represented a major Georgia-based not-for-profit health system in the divestment of three skilled nursing facilities totaling 448 beds. Despite their rural locations, operational challenges and capital expenditure needs, W&D... Read More »
  • East Coast Owner/Operator Acquires First NJ Community

    Evans Senior Investments facilitated the sale of The Heritage Assisted Living, an assisted living and memory care community in Hammonton, New Jersey. ESI was engaged by the independent owner and lender of the property and procured six competitive offers from institutional capital and regional owner/operators. The ultimate buyer was an East Coast... Read More »
  • California-Based Owner/Operator Acquires Note

    An international bank engaged Blueprint to oversee the sale of its interest in a 180-bed skilled nursing facility in the Santa Rosa area of Northern California. The mortgage on the facility was in default despite the facility’s strong historical operating performance and occupancy. It demonstrated extremely high top-line revenue,... Read More »
  • Welltower to Acquire NorthStar Healthcare

    Welltower and NorthStar Healthcare Income announced that NorthStar Healthcare has entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Welltower, in an all cash transaction with an approximate enterprise value of $900 million, or around $185,000 per unit. Under the term of the merger agreement, NorthStar Healthcare’s... Read More »
  • PE Firm Divests in Oregon to Local Owner/Operator

    A nationally recognized institutional private equity firm engaged Blueprint to oversee the sale of two high-performing seniors housing communities totaling 344 units in Oregon. The communities are Evergreen Senior Living, which is in Eugene, and Timber Pointe/Woodside Senior Living, which sit on the same campus in Springfield. Built between 1996... Read More »
Colliers Secures Construction Loan For Michigan Senior Care Campus

Colliers Secures Construction Loan For Michigan Senior Care Campus

Christopher Fenton, Catherine Eby, Nick Skarich and Kevin McMahon of Colliers Mortgage closed a $19.4 million construction loan for the development of an independent/assisted living and skilled nursing campus in Hudsonville, Michigan. Expected to open in spring 2024, the 107-unit community will feature a combination of studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom units.  Amenities will include a bistro, lounge and large community spaces. The loan comes with a 48-month term with one 12-month extension option. Read More »
BWE Adds Seniors Housing Investment Sales Group

BWE Adds Seniors Housing Investment Sales Group

There’s a new seniors housing and care investment sales group in town. BWE Investment Sales, LLC (BWEIS), the investment sales organization that works closely with BWE, a national commercial and multifamily mortgage banking company, announced today the launched its new seniors housing platform, dubbed BWEIS Seniors. It will be headed by Charles Bissell, most recently a Managing Director with JLL’s Capital Markets Group and a veteran seniors housing leader with over 30 years of experience in the industry. The BWEIS Seniors team will partner with the BWE seniors housing debt and structured finance team to offer a full suite of capital markets solutions to their best-in-class clients across... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: 2023 Deal Volume at 2019 Levels

60 Seconds with Swett: 2023 Deal Volume at 2019 Levels

Dealmakers have a lot to be frustrated with in the M&A market right now, with valuations low, deal processes taking longer than ever, scarcity in the debt markets and other headwinds making their impact. But despite it all, deal volume was actually historically healthy in the third quarter of 2023.  There were 115 publicly announced transactions in the quarter. That is down from the 120 deals made public in Q2:23 and the 140 from last year’s third quarter. But the average deals per quarter for 2023 at 115 is equal to the average deals per quarter in 2019, a time of cheap and abundant capital and before anyone knew what COVID-19 was. Plus, on an annualized basis, Q3’s total would... Read More »
TJM Properties Re-enters Senior Living Sector

TJM Properties Re-enters Senior Living Sector

In 2013, Clearwater, Florida-based TJM Properties sold 15 of its 19 senior living communities to Fortress Investment Group/Holiday Retirement for $220 million, effectively exiting the sector to focus on the hotel industry and its remaining senior living communities. However, TJM has recently re-invested in the sector through the acquisition of five separate senior living communities in Florida in 2023. Interestly, these five communities were part of the 15-community portfolio that the company had previously divested. TJM initiated its return to the sector in February with the purchase of Bayside Terrace, a 162-bed senior living community in Pinellas Park, Florida. The acquisition was... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: New NORC Study Great for Senior Care PR

60 Seconds with Swett: New NORC Study Great for Senior Care PR

The seniors housing and care market is fighting an often uphill battle to fix its public perception, and providers got a significant tool in their marketing arsenal when NORC at the University of Chicago released a study on how frailty levels among seniors ultimately decline after their moving into seniors housing or skilled nursing properties. NIC funded the study through a grant, and it will certainly be highlighted heavily throughout the upcoming Fall conference, and for good reason.  In a review of Medicare claims of residents from more than 14,000 senior living properties and using a frailty index developed by Harvard University that measures rates of chronic conditions, acute... Read More »
Staffing Regs May Cost 60% More Than CMS Suggested

Staffing Regs May Cost 60% More Than CMS Suggested

Following up on CMS’s initial estimate that the Minimum Staffing Mandate would cost around $4 billion for skilled nursing facilities (and $40.6 billion over the first 10 years), CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA) released a competing study that put that cost nearly 60% higher, at around $6.8 billion. The American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living’s President and CEO Mark Parkinson quickly responded to the results (in advance of them being released), saying, “What CLA’s analysis confirms is that this proposed rule is deeply flawed, and the Biden Administration has woefully underestimated the feasibility and cost of this unfunded mandate.” The proposed rule from CMS mandates... Read More »