• 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 »
Lisa McCracken Joins NIC

Lisa McCracken Joins NIC

Lisa McCracken will be taking her research and analytics expertise to the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) effective October 1. She will be the head of research and analytics for NIC. She had a similar job at the investment banking firm Ziegler, where she was director of senior living research and development for the past six years, and SVP for the four years prior. Earlier this summer Beth Mace “retired” as NIC’s chief economist and director of research and analytics, and while no one can fill her shoes, it looks like Lisa will take over the research side of things while Beth slows down and tries to ease into retirement working part time for NIC with her... Read More »
The REIT/Operator Shuffle Continues

The REIT/Operator Shuffle Continues

Ventas just announced that it was changing out the management of 26 independent living communities that had been managed by “Holiday by Atria.” Sodalis Senior Living will be taking over 13 communities in Texas, Priority Life Care eight in Florida, and Discovery Senior Living five in California. All three companies are already successfully managing properties on behalf of Ventas. The new managers will take over on or around September 1 for the majority of the communities, with the balance early in the fourth quarter. What we know is that Priority Life Care took over a portfolio of the former Eclipse managed properties and performed better than expected, or at least what Ventas may have... Read More »
Diversified Healthcare Trust/Office Properties Trust Deal in Jeopardy

Diversified Healthcare Trust/Office Properties Trust Deal in Jeopardy

Last April 11, Diversified Healthcare Trust announced a merger (sale) with Office Properties Income Trust whereby DHC shareholders would receive $1.70 in OPI shares for each DHC share, then worth about $1.20 per share. Within weeks the shares plunged by 33% to $0.80 per share. They had been as low as $0.61 per share on December 22, 2022. We suppose management must have been desperate. Something didn’t smell right to a few investors, and shareholder Flat Footed LLC raised the red flag that this was not a deal in the best interests of DHC shareholders. And they fought it. They were not the only ones who decided the merger was not in the best interests of DHC shareholders. Now, three leading... Read More »
Assured Hospice Acquisition and Home Health M&A Trends – A Conversation with Alex Veach of Agenda Health

Assured Hospice Acquisition and Home Health M&A Trends – A Conversation with Alex Veach of Agenda Health

Agenda Health, a healthcare-focused M&A advisory firm based in Austin, Texas, advised Assured Hospice in its acquisition by Agape Care Group, a portfolio company of private equity firm Ridgemont Equity Partners. Agenda Health’s mission is to deliver consistent results with a faith-based, Christ-centered focus. Agape originally announced the deal in late June, but we were able to speak with Alex Veach, Director of Transactions Services at Agenda Health, to get an inside look into the Assured Hospice acquisition, as well as the home health M&A market as a whole. Based in Cartersville, Georgia, Assured Hospice provides physical, emotional and spiritual... Read More »
New Active Adult Community in The Works

New Active Adult Community in The Works

America Walks, an Ohio-based multifamily development firm, is developing Encore at Tradition, an active adult community located in Tradition (a master-planned community within Port St. Lucie), Florida. This is being done with the help of a $95 million mortgage loan originated from Madison Realty Capital, a real estate private equity firm managing $11 billion in assets.  Encore at Tradition will be comprised of 303 single-story, ranch-style villa units across 60 buildings and two multifamily buildings, connected by a 24,000-square foot clubhouse and amenity deck. Resort-style amenities will be offered, including a salon, sauna, walking/biking trails, golf simulator, sport courts and a... Read More »
Assured Hospice Acquisition and Home Health M&A Trends – A Conversation with Alex Veach of Agenda Health

Progress For Sonida Senior Living

Just like for almost everyone else, Sonida Senior Living had some good news to report for the second quarter as well as some areas that did not improve as much as maybe expected. But progress is being made to achieve stabilized occupancy, cash flow and operating margins. Even though weighted average occupancy increased by 120 basis points from the year-ago quarter to 83.9%, it declined by 10 basis points from the first quarter this year. For the sector, the second quarter has rarely been a good one for census, but other companies have been reporting increases for both the first and second quarters. The 8% rate increases have caused some move outs for financial reasons, but the increases... Read More »