• Publicly Traded REIT Acquires in Colorado

    The Walker & Dunlop Seniors Housing team started the year off strong, with two closings in January. W&D first represented a major Georgia-based not-for-profit health system in the divestment of three skilled nursing facilities totaling 448 beds. Despite their rural locations, operational challenges and capital expenditure needs, W&D... Read More »
  • East Coast Owner/Operator Acquires First NJ Community

    Evans Senior Investments facilitated the sale of The Heritage Assisted Living, an assisted living and memory care community in Hammonton, New Jersey. ESI was engaged by the independent owner and lender of the property and procured six competitive offers from institutional capital and regional owner/operators. The ultimate buyer was an East Coast... Read More »
  • California-Based Owner/Operator Acquires Note

    An international bank engaged Blueprint to oversee the sale of its interest in a 180-bed skilled nursing facility in the Santa Rosa area of Northern California. The mortgage on the facility was in default despite the facility’s strong historical operating performance and occupancy. It demonstrated extremely high top-line revenue,... Read More »
  • Welltower to Acquire NorthStar Healthcare

    Welltower and NorthStar Healthcare Income announced that NorthStar Healthcare has entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Welltower, in an all cash transaction with an approximate enterprise value of $900 million, or around $185,000 per unit. Under the term of the merger agreement, NorthStar Healthcare’s... Read More »
  • PE Firm Divests in Oregon to Local Owner/Operator

    A nationally recognized institutional private equity firm engaged Blueprint to oversee the sale of two high-performing seniors housing communities totaling 344 units in Oregon. The communities are Evergreen Senior Living, which is in Eugene, and Timber Pointe/Woodside Senior Living, which sit on the same campus in Springfield. Built between 1996... Read More »

Blueprint Handles Pennsylvania Portfolio Deal

A public REIT and its operating partner chose to sell a portfolio of six senior care locations in western Pennsylvania, and hired Michael Segal, Connor Doherty and Ryan Kelly of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors to do so. Totaling 425 skilled nursing and 29 personal care beds, the facilities averaged a four-star rating from CMS, including three five-star rated locations. Still, it was marketed as a value-add opportunity for an incoming buyer to capitalize on the potential rate growth in the various submarkets with limited competition, plus as occupancy and cash flow rebound from the pandemic. An owner/operator looking to enter the region ended up as the buyer, paying an undisclosed... Read More »

Hudson Hills Senior Living Has New Owner

The historic property of Hudson Hills Senior Living in North Bergen, New Jersey, has been sold to an east coast-based owner operator expanding its portfolio in the Garden State. The CCRC was originally built in 1897 with recent renovations last dated to 1990. Located just five miles outside of Manhattan, the community consists of 59 independent living units, 81 assisted living units, 12 memory care units, and 60 skilled nursing beds, comprising a total of 152 units. At the time of the sale, the senior living portion of the community was about 50% occupied and the skilled nursing portion was 90% occupied.  Evans Senior Investments handled this transaction. Since March 31, 2020, Evans Senior... Read More »

SLIB Sells in Bowling Green 

A commercial real estate development company based in Bowling Green, Kentucky sold two senior living communities in its hometown, with the help of Daniel Geraghty and Bradley Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Including Chandler Park Assisted Living, a 61-unit assisted living community, and Chandler Memory Care, a 31-unit memory care community, the properties are located 2.5 miles from each other. They were both built in stages over the years. Occupancy was around 88% across the two assets.   SLIB received five competitive bids, and the local seller chose a Midwest-based owner/operator that was familiar with the market as the buyer. No purchase price was... Read More »

Large Skilled Nursing Portfolio Sells in West Virginia

There was a major skilled nursing deal in the state of West Virginia, where 17 skilled nursing facilities and one facility under development sold to a joint venture between a prominent SNF real estate owner and an operating partner, CommuniCare Health Services. The seller was Stonerise, which also divested its seven home health agencies and affiliated therapy and hospital services. Its portfolio included around 2,000 skilled nursing beds.  No purchase price has been disclosed, but we know that White Oak Healthcare Partners, the HUD affiliate of White Oak Healthcare Finance, structured $582 million in acquisition financing for the buyer. The debt was structured as a unitranche loan... Read More »

Ensign Announces Slew of Transactions  

The Ensign Group announced a slew of transactions to start the month of July. Its first acquisition was in Las Vegas, Nevada for Henderson Health and Rehabilitation. Built in 1983, the skilled nursing facility in the town of Henderson comprises 266-beds on 3.7 acres. Pennant Healthcare LLC, a subsidiary of Ensign, will be taking over operations of the facility.  The next acquisition included a bundle of five skilled nursing facilities in the state of Texas. First, Ensign acquired the operations of The Eden of Las Colinas, located just outside of Dallas, which comprises 118 beds. Ensign also added the operations of Pleasant Valley Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, in Garland, which... Read More »

CareTrust REIT Makes A Couple of Announcements

CareTrust REIT made a couple of announcements around the holiday weekend, starting with Greg Stapley resigning as Executive Chair of the Board of Directors. In conjunction with the announcement, CareTrust also revealed that Lead Independent Director Diana Laing was appointed to replace Mr. Stapley as Chair of the Board, and CEO David Sedgwick was appointed as a director. Mr. Stapley had stepped down as CEO in January 2021 with the intention of pursuing a full-time international volunteer assignment for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and stepping down from the board will allow him to devote 100% of his energy to the mission. CareTrust then announced a transaction where it... Read More »