• Berkadia Announces Array of Closings

    Berkadia is riding a transaction hot streak, closing 19 property sales in the last 45 days. The activity included a portfolio featuring five assisted living/memory care communities across Utah, Wisconsin and Minnesota sold to Jaybird Capital, an affiliate of Jaybird Senior Living, through HUD assumptions. Jaybird assumed management of the... Read More »
  • Tremper Capital Group Closes Several Financings

    Tremper Capital Group showed off its variety with a series of financings closed for clients across the country. They included a construction loan, an acquisition loan, a bank refinance and a portfolio financing. First, the team closed non-recourse construction financing for an assisted living/memory care community in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.... Read More »
  • Upstate New York SNF Trades Between Not-for-Profits

    Joe Knapp of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap handled the sale of a skilled nursing facility in upstate New York. The Center For Nursing And Rehab in Hoosick Falls, New York, comprises 82 beds in a single-story building that sits on four acres. It was built in 1954, but renovated in 1979 and 1995.  Apparently, the facility... Read More »
  • Acquisition Financing Closed for Distressed California Community

    Private debt fund and direct commercial real estate lender Wilshire Finance Partners closed an $8.15 million first lien bridge loan for the acquisition and repositioning of a distressed seniors housing community in California. The financing included reserves specifically allocated for capital improvements and operational support during the... Read More »
  • Developer and Operator Secure Construction Financing

    Another new development will soon be underway, with BLDG Real Estate and The Fellowship Family securing financing for a $100 million full-continuum community, Fellowship Wildlight. BLDG Real Estate is a real estate development firm that specializes in design, development and asset execution across multiple product types. The Fellowship Family is... Read More »
Sonida Senior Living Reports Q1 as CNL Deal Reshapes Portfolio

Sonida Senior Living Reports Q1 as CNL Deal Reshapes Portfolio

Sonida Senior Living reported its first quarter results after becoming the eighth largest seniors housing owner toward the close of the quarter. The company completed its acquisition of CNL Healthcare Properties, a public, non-traded REIT that owned 69 seniors housing communities, bringing Sonida’s owned portfolio to 153 owned properties and 14,700 units. Largely as a result of the merger and the 54 communities added to Sonida’s SHOP portfolio, resident revenue and expenses each increased 37% year over year. Meanwhile, on a pro forma, same-community basis, weighted average occupancy rose 220 basis points to 87.2%, NOI increased 14% and margins expanded by 170 basis points, all on a... Read More »
Montgomery Intermediary Group Brings on New Advisor

Montgomery Intermediary Group Brings on New Advisor

Continuing its momentum in 2026, Montgomery Intermediary Group (MIG) announced that it hired Colin Thomas, CFA as an investment sales advisor. In this role, Thomas will lead seniors housing and skilled nursing transactions across Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana, expanding MIG’s coverage and capabilities in these markets. Thomas’s experience bridges institutional finance and front-line operations. Most recently, he held executive operating roles in post-acute care, where he led enterprise-wide transformation initiatives, financial restructuring efforts, and a full-platform transition involving more than 2,000 patients and over 200 employees across home health, hospice and... Read More »
Watch The SeniorCare Investor’s Q1 Investor Call

Watch The SeniorCare Investor’s Q1 Investor Call

The SeniorCare Investor convened a panel on April 23 to discuss key topics front and center for investors. Ben Swett, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, moderated the discussion. Blueprint sponsored the Q1 2026 Investor Call webinar, with Kyle Hallion, Senior Director at Blueprint, joining. Investment firm perspectives came from Natalie Wynn, Senior Vice President, Transactions at Clarion Partners, and Theo Harrison, Vice President at Fortress Investment Group. Representing the REIT side was Lauren Nisley, Vice President, Investments at Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc. Read More »
National Health Investors’ CFO Retires

National Health Investors’ CFO Retires

National Health Investors’ John Spaid, Executive Vice President and CFO, will retire effective July 1, 2026. The company will appoint Todd Siefert as Executive Vice President Corporate Finance, effective June 1, 2026, and he will succeed Spaid as CFO. Also as part of the transition, Dana Hambly has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Finance to assume expanded responsibilities. Siefert brings more than 25 years of experience in corporate finance, capital markets, treasury management and investor relations, with expertise in publicly traded REITs. He most recently served as CFO of Hillsboro Residential, where he oversaw debt and equity financing, financial underwriting, and investor... Read More »
Montgomery Intermediary Group Brings on New Advisor

Not-for-Profit Selects New President and CEO

Sloan Bentley has been selected to serve as President and Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Retirement Services (PRS), a not-for-profit senior living organization based in Medford, Oregon. Bentley’s effective start date will be determined based on the closing of a financial restructuring for her current employer. She has a 40-plus year career in senior living, with extensive experience in the CCRC world. She cofounded Seniority Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of American Baptist Homes of the West, where for nearly 20 years she provided management, sales and marketing consultation to organizations nationwide. Bentley has held positions of leadership within growing senior living... Read More »
Montgomery Intermediary Group Brings on New Advisor

Blueprint Brings on New Team Member

Blueprint welcomed Peter Trazzera to the team as Senior Director, Capital Markets. Trazzera brings deep expertise in financing solutions and is set to further elevate Blueprint’s capabilities in the sector. He has an extensive background in institutional capital, and is joining following a 12-year tenure as Senior Vice President at KeyBank Institutional Healthcare. During his time at KeyBank, he was involved in providing more than $6 billion of capital in both corporate and project-level financings for REITs, private equity and institutional investors. Prior to KeyBank, Trazzera held senior analytical and strategic roles at Minto Group, Brookdale Senior Living and Horizon Bay... Read More »