• LCS and Vi To Merge

    LCS and Vi announced a strategic merger, adding Vi’s 10 communities and 4,000 residents to the LCS portfolio of more than 130 communities. Vi has entrance-fee CCRCs in Florida (3), Arizona (2), California (2), Colorado, Illinois and South Carolina. Depending on regulatory approvals, the merger is expected to close in mid-2026, with both companies... Read More »
  • Kiser’s Myers Announces Closings

    Mark Myers has had an active year since leaving Walker & Dunlop in January 2025 to go to SVN before exiting that shop in May to co-create a seniors housing brokerage platform with Kiser Group. But a few deals that he worked on with his previous teams have also recently closed. The largest was the sale of Sarah Neuman, a 301-bed skilled... Read More »
  • Blueprint Handles Five-SNF Portfolio Deal

    Giancarlo Riso and Amy Sitzman of Blueprint advised a client on a sale and HUD 232 process of five skilled nursing facilities located in central and west Texas. The facilities totaled 424 beds and featured positive cash flow. They had attractive, fixed-rate HUD debt of 2.8% and long remaining terms with maturity dates starting in 2035 through... Read More »
  • SLIB Sells Two Pennsylvania CCRCs

    Two faith-based, not-for-profit CCRCs in central Pennsylvania were acquired by a private East Coast-based investor. Located an hour’s drive from each other, Church of God Home has 50 independent living units and 109 skilled nursing beds in Carlisle, while Towne Centre in Myerstown has 152 skilled nursing beds, plus some “borrowed” IL units from... Read More »
  • Mississippi Turnaround SNF Changes Hands

    3G Healthcare Real Estate, which mainly focuses on skilled nursing transactions and has a side focus of debt and equity placement, facilitated the sale of a skilled nursing facility in Mississippi on behalf of a small, local skilled nursing owner. Built in the 1970s, the asset faced occupancy and operational challenges, including staffing... Read More »
New Development Is Not Dead

New Development Is Not Dead

New development is not dead, as Chelsea Senior Living and global real estate developer Trammell Crow Company teamed up to open a brand-new assisted living/memory care community in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. In this current environment, most agree that the only developments that work are high-end communities in high-barrier-to-entry markets where intense competition and pressures on staffing costs are less. Most lenders certainly agree with that, too, and The Chelsea at Fair Lawn is located in an affluent suburb of New York City. Not only that, it is the borough’s first assisted living/memory care community.  The three-story community opened in September 2023 with 67 units. Residents can... Read More »
DHC Announces A New President

DHC Announces A New President

Diversified Healthcare Trust announced that with its failed merger with Office Properties Income Trust (both companies are managed by The RMR Group) it would be making changes to its board and executive leadership team. Well, President and CEO Jennifer Francis is retiring at the end of the year, to be replaced by Christopher Bilotto, an executive vice president of The RMR Group and current president and COO of Office Properties Income Trust. If the aforementioned merger had been completed, Bilotto was set to lead the combined companies. Francis had been a part of Diversified Healthcare Trust’s (DHC) senior management team since 2018 and was a managing trustee since 2021. She will continue... Read More »
New Seniors Housing Community Coming to Virginia

New Seniors Housing Community Coming to Virginia

Hoffman & Associates and Experience Senior Living are teaming up to develop a seniors housing community in Northern Virginia, with opening expected sometime during fourth quarter 2026. The Reserve at Falls Church is set to be 15 stories with over 200 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. The community will have numerous amenities such as a spa with a saltwater pool, a sky bar and electric vehicle transportation services. It will be located within the 10-acre West Falls mixed-use development that’s currently underway. West Falls will feature apartments, condominiums, shops, restaurants, service retailers, a hotel and a medical office building, plus a central... Read More »
Strawberry Fields REIT Reports Q3 Earnings

Strawberry Fields REIT Reports Q3 Earnings

Strawberry Fields REIT released its third quarter results, and it featured some good and could-be-better news. First, to the positive news, the REIT collected 100% of its contractual rents during quarter three, something other REITs have not been so lucky to experience. Revenues did increase, however, NOI decreased year over year from $9.3 million to $4.7 million for several reasons on the expense side.  First, general and administrative expenses increased by 113.7%, mostly due to non-capitalized expenses related to the acquisition of Indiana senior care campuses. Next, interest expense increased by 14.6%, primarily because of additional debt service related to Series D Bonds and an... Read More »
New Development Is Not Dead

From AL/MC to Behavioral Health

Blueprint’s Behavioral Healthcare and Seniors Housing teams were brought on by a regional seniors housing owner looking to lease its vacant assisted living/memory care community in Tennessee.  Because the community was empty, Blueprint could effectively market the asset as both seniors housing and behavioral healthcare conversion candidates. Blueprint recommended the owner deploy a behavioral healthcare marketing strategy given strong demand within Brentwood. Lease rate, term, credit and certainty of execution were all considered for the incoming tenant. The owner received three strong offers before selecting a regional behavioral healthcare provider. The owner and incoming tenant... Read More »
60 Seconds with Monroe: Are We Getting Too Big Again?

60 Seconds with Monroe: Are We Getting Too Big Again?

One of the consequences of the pandemic, one of many, is that the differentiation between the best operators and the not so good has been increasingly exposed. And of course, investors will seek out the best to manage their properties. But as this happens, the operators who are doing a good or even great job today will start to be spread too thin. Managing 20 communities is a lot different than 50, 100 or more. You can have the procedures and policies in place for 100 properties, but you do start to lose that personal touch, especially if the CEO is very hands on. With REITs and other investors doubling down on either their best operators, or finding others that they perceive to be top... Read More »