• Value-Add AL/MC Community Trades

    An institutional owner decided to divest a non-core asset, and engaged Jason Punzel, Vince Viverito, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage to run the sale process. The asset is located in Hillsboro, Oregon (Portland MSA), and features 36 assisted living and memory care units, with 62 licensed beds. It was built in... Read More »
  • Brookdale Divests California Community to Public REIT

    Blueprint was engaged by an institutional, national owner/operator in the strategic disposition of a large rental CCRC in Bakersfield, California. The 20-acre campus was developed in 1999 and provides the whole continuum of care, including independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing across three large buildings and... Read More »
  • Two Midwest Assets Trade

    A couple of seniors housing communities traded in the Midwest, selling to a couple of growing owner/operators. First, in the Indianapolis area, The Kiser Group’s Mark Myers and SVN | Senior Living Advisors’ John Klement led the sale of a 157-unit seniors housing community featuring a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Portfolio Closes in Wisconsin

    Bob Richards of Senior Care Realty recently completed the sale of a five-property assisted living portfolio in Wisconsin, closing the deal in multiple tranches. Richards had worked with the seller, AC Capital, for 15 years, helping them grow their portfolio over the years. AC Capital also has self-managed the communities for the last decade. Now,... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: Here We Go Again

    AARP just published a report on assisted living, and all I can say is, here we go again. It concludes that “the state of assisted living today is cause for concern for many stakeholders. The lack of national federal standards for care centers creates an underregulated space.” It continues on, stating that the “absence of national oversight,... 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 »