• 60 Seconds with Swett: Sticks and Bricks in ’26?

    The talk around new development is getting a lot more serious in the seniors housing industry, leading us to wonder if our 2024 prediction of “Sticks and Bricks in ‘26” may actually come true, somewhat. Back then, we may have thought that interest rates would have come down a bit more by now, but that the FOMO of getting involved in seniors... Read More »
  • Wyoming SNF Sale Sets New State Record

    There was a new record set for skilled nursing pricing in the state of Wyoming with the sale of Big Horn Rehabilitation and Care Center in Sheridan. Built in the 1960s, the facility features 128 beds and was 61% occupied. It was owned by a regional operator that was looking to recycle capital.  Before the marketing process, Evans Senior... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Acquires Facility Out of Bankruptcy

    A senior care facility in Worcester, Massachusetts, sold as part of a bankruptcy process with the help of Patrick Burke and Toby Siefert of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Built in 1970, Donna Kay Rest Home features 60 licensed beds in 31 units, providing a higher level of care and supervision than assisted living but at a lesser acuity than... Read More »
  • Civitas Sells Community to Clarion

    Hap Knowles and Nick Stahler of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Institutional Property Advisors announced that they led the sale of a seniors housing community in the Phoenix, Arizona MSA, to the fast-growing real estate investment firm Clarion Partners. The deal appears to be The Retreat at Alameda, a 110-unit assisted living/memory care community in... Read More »
  • Blueprint Handles Recapitalization

    Blueprint handled the recapitalization of Forest Hills Commons, a 2017-developed, 119-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Louisville, Kentucky MSA. A Louisville-based senior living owner/operator/developer engaged Blueprint in the third quarter of 2025 to begin the process. The asset demonstrated strong in-place performance and... Read More »
Not-for-Profit Selects New President and CEO

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 »
Not-for-Profit Selects New President and CEO

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 »
National Healthcare Properties Kicks Off IPO Push

National Healthcare Properties Kicks Off IPO Push

National Healthcare Properties, Inc. launched its public offering of 38.5 million shares of its Class A common stock pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-11 filed with the SEC. The initial public offering price is expected to be between $13.00 and $16.00 per share, and the company expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 5.775 million shares to cover overallotments, if any. It applied to list its Class A common stock on Nasdaq under the ticker “NHP.” National Healthcare Properties intends to use the net proceeds received from the offering to repay approximately $186.0 million of outstanding indebtedness under its revolving credit facility,... Read More »
Brookdale’s Summer Test Ahead

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 during the peak leasing months to show any real momentum, or even hold steady, in 2026.  Same-community weighted average occupancy has now declined each month since October, falling 120 basis points over that stretch. Same-community month-end occupancy did not come in much better, down 100 basis points over the same time period. Brookdale pointed... Read More »
Another Senior Care REIT Files for IPO

Another Senior Care REIT Files for IPO

Another senior care REIT is eyeing the public markets after filing a registration statement with the SEC for a proposed offering of Class A common stock. National Healthcare Properties’ offering remains subject to market conditions and other customary conditions, and the number of shares and pricing range have not yet been determined. And if completed, the company expects to list on the NASDAQ under the symbol “NHP.”  The filing comes shortly after Janus Living completed its IPO at the end of March. While National Healthcare Properties is not solely focused on seniors housing like Janus Living, it represents another signal of confidence in the sector’s long-term fundamentals. And it throws... Read More »
ESI Adds Capital Markets & Debt Advisory Team

ESI Adds Capital Markets & Debt Advisory Team

Evans Senior Investments has expanded its platform to now include a dedicated Capital Markets & Debt Advisory team to source debt solutions for its clients. Complementary to its brokerage/investment sales services and benefitting from Evans’ robust lender network, the new platform will facilitate acquisition financings, refinancings, recapitalizations, working capital and portfolio-level financings.  Director Hank Fuller and Senior Capital Associate Jeremy Laboe will lead the capital markets practice. The team brings direct relationships with more than 500 capital sources across banks, debt funds and agency platforms, and they will utilize Evans’ proprietary transaction database... Read More »