• Strawberry Fields REIT’s 2025 Growth

    Strawberry Fields REIT reported its 2025 operating results, noting that it was the best year since its inception more than 10 year ago. The company posted significant increases in FFO and AFFO, and it completed more than $110 million in several new acquisitions. Its portfolio now includes 131 skilled nursing facilities, 10 assisted living... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Exits SNF Sector

    An independent owner/operator exited the skilled nursing sector through its divestment of Sunrise Country Manor, which has 80 beds in Milford, Nebraska, and features a mix of private and semi-private units. It maintained an 83% occupancy rate at the time of the sale. A regional operator looking to expand its footprint in Nebraska acquired the... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Providers Join Forces 

    Majestic Residences recently expanded its footprint, adding 17 assisted living communities and six in active development, through its acquisition of Avendelle Senior Living. Avendelle will be integrated into the Majestic Residences platform, with Avendelle’s corporate team retained. The combined organization will operate under the Majestic... Read More »
  • Investor Secures Financing and Acquires Class-A Community

    BWE’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets Team sold and financed The Capstone at Station Camp, which sits in the Nashville, Tennessee MSA. Built in 2021, the Class-A assisted living and memory care community comprises 100 units in Gallatin. It is operated by TerraBella Senior Living.  BWE represented the seller, Hunt Midwest. The buyer was a... Read More »
  • Multiple SNFs Sell in Separate Transactions

    A large skilled nursing company sold its 181-bed skilled nursing facility to a private investment firm based in New York, exiting South Carolina in the process. The buyer had an existing skilled nursing footprint, and will be leasing this facility to a regional operator. The building was older, built in the 1980s, and was around 80% occupied at... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: Gloom Prevails at the NIC Conference

60 Seconds with Swett: Gloom Prevails at the NIC Conference

As always, it was great to see so many of our industry friends, and plenty of new faces, at the NIC Conference in Chicago last week. And typical of most conferences, many asked us what we thought the mood of the conference was. We wondered if it would be at all better than the grim 2022 Fall conference when the capital markets had fundamentally shifted for the worse. Unfortunately, we cannot say it was better than that. With the 10-year Treasury rate touching 5% at the start of the conference and consistent signals from the Fed that interest rates would be “higher, for longer,” any hope for an improving capital markets environment unleashing a flood of financings and M&A (at higher... Read More »
LTC Properties Comes Out with Q3 Earnings

LTC Properties Comes Out with Q3 Earnings

LTC Properties came out with its third quarter earnings on October 26, and the REIT’s loan origination program, which grew at a time when making acquisitions did not make as much financial sense, is continuing to pay off. Q3 net income was boosted by higher interest income from a variety of sources. There was financing receivables due to the acquisition of 11 assisted living/memory care communities in the first quarter of 2023 and three skilled nursing facilities in the third quarter of 2022. Higher interest income also came from mortgage loan originations in Q1:23 and a $17.0 million mezzanine loan origination in Q3:23. An affiliate of Galerie Living received that loan to recapitalize and... Read More »
Ensign’s Q3:23 Earnings Are Released

Ensign’s Q3:23 Earnings Are Released

The Ensign Group came out with its third quarter earnings on October 25, and the results were mostly positive. GAAP diluted earnings per share rose 12.1% over the previous third quarter to $1.11. However, that was off $0.01 compared with the second quarter. On an adjusted basis, EPS rose to $1.20 in Q3:23, up 15.4% from Q3:22 and up 3.4% from Q2:23. The company’s share price dropped by just 0.7% on a down day for the market.  Adjusted EBITDAR also increased to $158.4 million for the third quarter, or $633.6 million on an annualized basis. Revenues soared from $770 million in Q3:22 to $940.8 million in Q3:23 on the back of higher reimbursement, new acquisitions and increased census.... Read More »
LTC Properties Comes Out with Q3 Earnings

All Charges Against Silverado Dropped

In a case that never should have been charged, by an overzealous district attorney in California (of course), all charges against Silverado Memory Care, its employees and its CEO, Loren Shook, have been dismissed. The only thing we wonder is, what took them so long? Other than the fact that this never should have happened. Multiple felony counts of elder endangerment and of violations causing death, and this in the first few months of COVID, when even the CDC was clueless about the disease? This should have been dropped months ago, but we suppose it had to be played out. We hope that this will be a lesson to other, overzealous DAs who want to make a name for themselves, that they should... Read More »
Distinctive Living Enters Tennessee Market

Distinctive Living Enters Tennessee Market

With the capital markets still dissuading many buyers from getting into the M&A market, we have seen more growth through the addition of new management contracts among many operators in the senior care industry. One company, Distinctive Living, expanded its portfolio to Tennessee after assuming management of The Village at Bellevue, an assisted living/memory care community in Nashville. The community features 69 AL and 18 MC units and marks Distinctive’s entry into the state. Distinctive has existing and to-be-built locations in Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. There are studio, one-bedroom and... Read More »
Continuum Advisors Launches New Brokerage Business

Continuum Advisors Launches New Brokerage Business

There’s a new brokerage and advisory firm in the seniors housing world. Launched by Jay Jordan and Dave Kliewer, both formerly of Grandbridge, Continuum Advisors will focus exclusively on national seniors housing investment sales. Already, the team has approximately $500 million in current engagements, and fresh off of another NIC conference, that figure is sure to increase soon. Jordan and Kliewer bring more than 40 years of experience in sell-side seniors housing representation, with the pair having sold over 200 seniors housing communities in 35 states. Before their three years at Grandbridge, both previously worked at Cushman & Wakefield, as well. Read More »