• Regional Owner/Operator Enters New State

    A regional owner/operator looking to enter the state of Indiana acquired Smith Farms Manor, an independent living community in Auburn, about 30 miles south of the Michigan border. Built in 1998, the community features 51 units and is well maintained. It sits on an attractive four-acre campus down the street from Parkview DeKalb Hospital and off... Read More »
  • Skilled Nursing Portfolio Gets New Operator

    Evans Senior Investments secured a new lease for a skilled nursing portfolio in Tennessee on behalf of an institutional owner. The portfolio features four assets and was operating below 70% occupancy with margins under 10%. Despite that performance, ESI secured a lease $3 million above in-place cash flow, reflecting the operational upside that... Read More »
  • Seniors Housing and Care M&A Remains Elevated in Q1:26

    The number of publicly announced seniors housing and care acquisitions in the first quarter of 2026 reached 231 deals, based on new acquisition data from LevinPro LTC. This represents a 19.8% decrease from the 288 transactions disclosed in the fourth quarter of 2025, but a 25.5% increase from the 184 deals in Q1:25.   “It was always going... Read More »
  • Clarion Acquires Again in Colorado

    Two years after opening a 160-unit seniors housing community in Centennial, Colorado (Denver MSA), MorningStar Senior Living announced an expanding relationship with Clarion Partners, a leading real estate investment company and specialty investment manager of Franklin Templeton, in its acquisition of MorningStar at Holly Park. The community... Read More »
  • Brookdale’s Summer Test Ahead

    Brookdale Senior Living reported its March occupancy results, and it unfortunately took another step in the wrong direction. We will get a better read when peers report first-quarter results and when NIC MAP releases its next tranche of occupancy data, but at this point, it seems as though Brookdale will need a particularly strong performance... Read More »

Mix of financing funds project

An assisted living/memory care community to be built in North Seattle’s Bitter Lake neighborhood has plenty of supporters, financial or otherwise, wanting to help it fill up and succeed. Zenith Capital, a Seattle-based leader in alternative financing for the seniors housing industry, is planning to build a 100-unit community, with 79 units of assisted living and 21 units of memory care. To operate, Zenith brought on Village Concepts, which manages 15 senior communities in Washington with over 1,400 residents. We will have to wait and see how fill-up goes, but it certainly helps this project that the “newest” seniors housing community in the area was built in 2006, with the majority dating... Read More »

Active developer at it again

Smith/Packett Med-Com, a developer of seniors housing across the Southeast but concentrated in Virginia, is adding a 102-unit assisted living/memory care community to its portfolio. Located on a high-visibility spot in Yorktown, Virginia, The Crossings on the Peninsula will feature 68 assisted living units and 34 memory care units, in addition to an in-house rehabilitation and therapy space for its residents. Working with Cushman & Wakefield/Thalhimer, Smith/Packett closed on the 8.43 acre site in June for $1.16 million and has begun clearing the site for construction. When the community opens in the summer of 2016, to the tune of nearly $16 million, or $156,900 per unit,... Read More »

Shovels in the ground for first NFL-alumni community

Validus Group recently received plenty of press for its proposed venture (together with investment bank Piper Jaffray) to develop a $1.1 billion dollar pipeline of 33 new assisted living/memory care communities geared towards former NFL players. With over 18,000 former NFL alumni in the country and nearly one-third of them likely to develop some memory impairment, that’s a healthy chunk of the NFL population who may need Alzheimer’s or dementia care. Validus’ plan is to open a community in cities with high concentrations of NFL alumni. While some cities will certainly have higher concentrations of NFL alumni than others, if just a couple of former players move into one of these communities... Read More »

Oakmont Senior Living growing

Already with a $150 million Freddie Mac Revolving Credit Facility provided to them in December 2013 to support their robust development pipeline, Oakmont Senior Living obtained an additional $23.5 million tranche with the help of Greystone. The financing enabled Oakmont to take out its construction loan on its newly constructed 71-unit assisted living/memory care community (with 45 AL units and 26 MC units) in Carmichael, California. Just nine months out from the community’s opening, the property was already 96% occupied at closing, which is impressive considering the recent declines in overall AL occupancy. Oakmont received low floating rate, non-recourse debt with an interest-only... Read More »

High-end in Hawaii

The master planned, pedestrian-oriented city of Kapolei, near Honolulu, Hawaii, will soon see the opening of a luxury senior living community. Developed by Carlsbad, California-based Kisco Senior Living, ‘Ilima at Leihano will feature 84 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care on 3.8 acres of the 40-acre that Kisco purchased to develop a mixed-use community called Leihano. The Leihano project has been in the works since before the Great Recession, with the company closing on the land only in the last four years, including selling two parcels to First Hawaiian Bank and home furnishings company C.S. Wo & Sons. Monthly rents at the senior living community will... Read More »

RED funds Avanti’s growth

Avanti Senior Living, which is developing five senior living communities in the Southeast (three in Texas and two in Louisiana) turned to RED Capital Partners to help fuel its construction pipeline, receiving a second $13.8 million balance sheet construction loan to build a 90-unit assisted living/memory care community in Flower Mound, Texas. The community will feature 50 units of assisted living and 40 units devoted to memory care, and represents Avanti’s third project to break ground under its joint venture with an affiliate of real estate fund manager, Iron Point Partners. Last December, RED also arranged a $13.5 million balance sheet construction loan for Avanti to construct a 90-unit... Read More »