• Community First Solutions Acquires Again in Ohio

    Ziegler was engaged by Marquee Capital, the real estate company affiliated with Marcus Investments, LLC, the Marcus’ family office, in the sale of its seniors housing community in Mason, Ohio. Built in 2020, BrightStar Senior Living of Mason sits on 3.2 acres with 41 assisted living and memory care units. The community was well occupied at 90%,... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Acquires Nashville Active Adult Community

    An active adult community in Germantown, Tennessee, found a new owner thanks to the team at Newmark. Built in 2020, Avenida Watermarq is a 161-unit, Class-A active adult community in an affluent suburb of Nashville. There are one- and two-bedroom options averaging 919 square feet per unit. Occupancy was 87%. Inspired Real Estate Partners and GEM... Read More »
  • Institutional Owner Divests Ohio Facility

    Evans Senior Investments arranged the sale of a skilled nursing facility in Ohio on behalf of an institutional owner looking to exit the market. The facility comprises 88 beds and 20 independent living units, which served as a referral source for the nursing home. The buyer was a regional owner/operator that is actively expanding in Ohio. This is... Read More »
  • Strawberry Fields Completes Missouri SNF Portfolio Acquisition

    Strawberry Fields REIT, Inc. announced that it completed the acquisition of nine skilled nursing facilities comprising 686 beds in Missouri for $59 million, or $86,000 per bed. The REIT completed the acquisition using cash on hand and the issuance of approximately $2.0 million in OP Units of Strawberry Fields REIT LP to the seller. Eight of the... Read More »
  • Macquarie Asset Management Launches Health Wave Partners

    Macquarie Asset Management, which has over 35 years of experience in the real estate sector and a current network of 15 specialist operator investments globally, announced the launch of Health Wave Partners, a seniors housing platform aimed at targeting investments in modern seniors housing assets alongside established operators. The platform... Read More »

Brookdale Senior Living For Sale, Again?

Whether it was leaked from Brookdale Senior Living, or from one of its advisors, or not, it was reported on Friday that the company was in talks with one or more advisors about a potential sale of the company. Forgive us if we yawn, but we have been through this before. Although, it was exciting to see a seniors housing company’s share price jump by 20% in a market that has not been kind to our industry, for how long it remains up is the important question. The shares had recently hit a 52-week low of $3.87, so jumping by 20% does not mean as much. This is especially true when one considers the fact that they walked away from a conditional indication of interest to buy the company four... Read More »

Takeaways from Skilled Nursing: Is There A Market Disconnect?

On September 29th, 2022, Ben Swett, Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, spoke with two expert panelists on the skilled nursing M&A market, and why values continue to skyrocket. Mr. Swett was joined by ​​​​​Laca Wong-Hammond, Managing Director and Head of M&A at Lument, and Toby Siefert, Managing Director of Senior Living Investment Brokerage, to make sense of this market, the opportunities within it and the risks. Mr. Swett kicked off the webinar by asking the panelists if the average price per bed, which currently sits at $118,000 per bed, will continue to rise as it has during the previous four quarters. Ms. Wong-Hammond discussed how inflation has caused everything to increase in... Read More »
Skilled Nursing: Is There A Market Disconnect?

Skilled Nursing: Is There A Market Disconnect?

On September 29th, 2022, our Editor Ben Swett discussed the skilled nursing M&A market with a couple of industry experts that included Laca Wong-Hammond of Lument and Toby Siefert of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. The conversation ran over an hour and covered SNF values, the current buyer’s mindset, what sellers are thinking and how the deal process has changed in recent months. Read More »
When Will the Attacks on SNFs Stop?

When Will the Attacks on SNFs Stop?

Don’t you feel like it is déjà vu all over again? Yet another report has come out criticizing the for-profit nursing home industry on its handling of the COVID crisis, with one publication stating the study “eviscerates” for-profit nursing homes. We don’t remember a study that didn’t eviscerate the sector, the punching bag for everyone it seems, especially The New York Times. But Congress has taken the lead from the Times recently. The congressional subcommittee report found that, among other things, many nursing homes were understaffed during the first few months of the pandemic, leading to deficient care. Hellooo. The majority of nursing homes were understaffed because they could not... Read More »

Thoughts On The Fall NIC Conference

Industry leaders convened last week in Washington, D.C. for the annual Fall NIC Conference, and while conversations were lively and some people were even jovial, something had definitely changed since the Spring Conference. One person said it was the second most somber NIC he had been to, after 1999. We would not say it was somber, but let’s just say we did not hear of many deals getting done. We would, however, like to set the record straight from one of the sessions on the first day, when a respected panelist stated that transaction volume was down 40% this year. Not even close to being accurate. Is transaction volume slowing? Of course. But if nothing closed for the rest of the year,... Read More »

Brookdale Continues to Roll, But Maybe not Rock

Brookdale Senior Living just announced its August occupancy results, and it continues to rollon with the increases, but not quite rockin’. The third quarter for the industry has always, and wemean always, been the one quarter with decent occupancy gains year after year, so if Brookdaledid not post gains for the first two months, we would be concerned. The provider posted its seventh straight month of an increase in month-ending occupancy.August ended at 77.9%, up 80 basis points from the end of July, which itself was 50 basis pointshigher than the end of June. This is not too shabby, but the absolute levels are still way too lowfor a solid financial recovery. Month-end occupancy year over... Read More »