• Zett Group Closes Full-Circle Transaction

    We do not see deals like this often. In a full circle transaction, Blake Bozett and Spud Batt of The Zett Group sold a large seniors housing community in Eugene, Oregon, to a Salem, Oregon-based group in partnership with a new operator through a pre-established JV structure. Bozett represented his grandparents, Ron and Joyce Knutson, a pioneering... Read More »
  • Brookdale Misses Revenue Targets, Again

    Brookdale Senior Living continues to slap investors and analysts around, missing consensus revenue targets for the fourth quarter in a row. We know, never rely on “consensus” anything, but the company seems to always disappoint, even now when everything should be rallying. Investors did not like what they heard and sent shares tumbling by 10% in... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Divests to Private Fund in Florida

    Bradley Clousing, Daniel Geraghty and Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage were engaged by a Southeast owner/operator in its divestment of two seniors housing communities that sit a few blocks apart in Wilton Manors, Florida. The buildings total 159 independent living and assisted living units, and were cash flow negative when the... Read More »
  • GEM Realty Capital Expands Its Active Adult Portfolio

    The CBRE Capital Markets Houston Multifamily Group and CBRE National Senior Housing handled the sale of an active adult community in Houston, Texas. Built in two phases in 2006 and 2012, Elate Royal Oaks, previously known as Camden Royal Oaks, consists of 340 units (236 were built in Phase 1, and 104 were built in Phase II). Clint Duncan, Matt... Read More »
  • New Venture Secures Acquisition Financing and Purchases Active Adult Community

    Newmark arranged the sale and financing for a seniors housing community in Huntington Beach, California. The seller, Bascom Group, was represented by Newmark Vice Chairman Dean Zander, who worked on the deal with Voit Real Estate Services’ Joe Leon and Nick Ingle. Huntington Breeze is a 114-unit, 103,000-square-foot active adult community that... Read More »
NHI Raises Guidance in Q1 Earnings Report

NHI Raises Guidance in Q1 Earnings Report

National Health Investors came out with its first quarter earnings and reported modest improvements in several financial metrics from the year-ago quarter. The REIT also increased its 2025 annual guidance range, which investors must have liked, pushing up the share price by nearly 3% in the trading hours following the announcement and earnings call to hit year-to-date highs. Net income attributable to common stockholders per diluted common share for the Q1:25 was $0.74 compared to $0.71 during the same period in the prior year. It also included approximately $300,000 in proxy contest and related expenses for a proxy campaign launched by activist investor Jonathan Litt’s Land &... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: Welltower Is on a Roll

60 Seconds with Swett: Welltower Is on a Roll

Welltower came out with its first quarter earnings on Tuesday, and surprise, surprise, it was yet another great quarter, and its share price jumped 3.5% immediately upon the news. It was the tenth consecutive quarter in which same store SHOP NOI growth exceeded 20%, at 21.7% in the first quarter. Guidance for same store NOI growth also rose by 100 basis points to a midpoint of 19.0% for FY2025. On Tuesday’s call, Welltower did mention that SHOP margins remain below pre-pandemic levels, but they may not be for long. Also, that issue currently plagues thousands of communities in this country and was prevalent in the years before COVID too. Perhaps that is why most of what we hear from... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: April Already Passes 50 Transactions

60 Seconds with Swett: April Already Passes 50 Transactions

Tariff turmoil? Volatile and still-high interest rates? Uncertainty surrounding Medicaid spending, labor costs and HUD’s queue length? Seniors housing and care dealmakers have looked past a lot of this noise to announce 50 transactions in the first three weeks of the second quarter, putting the market on track for the busiest M&A period ever. We know we sound like a broken record, but the start of April did feel like we reached a new level of activity, and given the conversations we’ve been having in the last few weeks, the second and third quarters may only accelerate in deal volume. For some sellers, seeing through the January 2025 rate increases was enough to enter the transaction... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: April Already Passes 50 Transactions

60 Seconds with Swett: See You in San Diego

By the time many of you are watching this, we’ll be in San Diego at the NIC Spring Conference, ready to catch up with our industry friends and hopefully meet a few new dealmakers, too. If you see me or my colleagues Steph Mallozzi and Ryan Marszalek in the hallways, please feel free to say hi and give us your thoughts on the current M&A, financing and development markets, and we’ll give you our opinions too. But if you aren’t going or are stuck in meetings all day, every day, then you’ll have a chance to hear takeaways from the conference plus see our latest proprietary seniors housing and care valuation statistics by tuning into our March 12th webinar at 1pm ET. Panelists JP LoMonaco,... Read More »

The Best M&A Data: 30 Years and Counting

When you need reliable statistics on the senior care M&A market, there is only one place to go. LevinPro LTC. I am happy to report that we have just published the 30th Edition of our Senior Care Acquisition Report, which covers the seniors housing continuum as well as skilled nursing. Here you will find key price per unit and bed stats, cap rates, NOI per unit, state-by-state valuation metrics and much, much more.  This year, we had a record number of transactions from which to pull the necessary financial data to bring you the most comprehensive report ever. Not only is it comprehensive, but it is the only one in the industry available to investors, lenders and operators, as no... Read More »