• 12 Oaks Senior Living Appoints New CFO

    12 Oaks Senior Living appointed Elliott Westerman as CFO, effective immediately. Westerman has more than two decades of leadership experience across senior living, healthcare, and real estate sectors. As CFO, Westerman will oversee all aspects of financial management, including financial planning and analysis, capital structure strategy,... Read More »
  • Ensign/Standard Bearer Adds Two Facilities

    The Ensign Group acquired a couple of skilled nursing facilities through its real estate subsidiary Standard Bearer Healthcare REIT. The first purchase was for Duncanville Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, a 124-bed SNF in Duncanville, Texas, which will be operated by a third-party operator subject to a long-term, triple-net lease. Ensign... Read More »
  • HTG Closes Two Separate SNF Transactions

    Healthcare Transactions Group (HTG) recently closed two transactions in Missouri and Maryland. The Show Me State deal involved Baptist Home of Independence, an 118-bed skilled nursing facility and 20-bed Residential Care Facility in the town of Independence. Built in 1977, the campus received a major renovation in 2021 and was 65% occupied. ... Read More »
  • VIUM’s New H1 Record

    VIUM Capital completed the first half of 2025 with an impressive $780 million in transaction par value. That volume was closed across 32 transactions, 51 separate properties and 14 states, comprising both bridge and permanent debt. It represents the strongest first half of the year in the company’s history. Part of that activity was more than... Read More »
  • Kiser Group Launches Seniors Housing Division

    Kiser Group, a leading multifamily brokerage firm, has announced the launch of its new Seniors Housing Division with the addition of industry veteran Mark Myers as Partner. This strategic expansion reflects the firm’s commitment to meeting the evolving needs of investors and operators in the growing senior living sector. With more than 30 years... Read More »

Greystone Refinances Carrington at Lincolnwood

Greystone arranged a $116 million bank refinance of Carrington at Lincolnwood, a large seniors housing community in the Lincolnwood suburb of Chicago. The community comprises a total of 383 units, split between 251 independent living units, 88 assisted living units and 44 memory care units. It was co-developed by South Bay Partners and Chicago’s Bluhm family. Greystone’s Cary Tremper and Matt Miller secured the refinancing for Dallas-based Harbert South Bay, the result of a December 2021 merger between Harbert Management Corp. and South Bay Partners.  Read More »

Ziegler Closes Bond Financing for Eliza Jennings 

Investment bank Ziegler has officially closed $24.405 million of bond financing for Ohio-based Eliza Jennings, a not-for-profit organization that currently owns and operates three senior living campuses in the state. The campuses comprise 75 independent living apartments and villas, 89 assisted living units and 216 skilled nursing beds. The first campus is The Renaissance, in Olmsted Falls, consisting of 314 units of senior living. Its second community  Devon Oaks, located in Westlake, is a 66-unit assisted living community. Lastly, the third campus is The Eliza Jennings Home, a skilled nursing facility operating 126 beds in the city of Cleveland.  The Series 2022A bonds are... Read More »

Health Dimensions Group Sells Two SNFs in Minnesota

Health Dimensions Group, a Minnesota-based regional owner/operator, divested two older skilled nursing facilities in its home state. One facility is located in the Minneapolis market, while the second is about 2.5 hours north of the city. Totaling 234 beds, both facilities were originally built in the 1960s but were recently refurbished by HDG. Occupancy was very strong at 90%, and the quality mix topped 40%, but expenses ran high across the facilities. Plus, performance dropped off slightly during the transaction process.  Nevertheless, Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors’ Amy Sitzman and Giancarlo Riso approached four groups and received three strong written offers. Mordy... Read More »

Not-For-Profit Organization Acquires Anoka Community

An elongated CHOW approval process did not stop the team of Jeff Binder, Jason Punzel and Jake Anderson of Senior Living Investment Brokerage from closing the sale of an 84-unit independent/assisted living community in the Minneapolis metro area. Built in 1988 in the town of Anoka, Minnesota, the community features 84 units and 104 beds. It was owned by a real estate development company that mainly focuses on the multifamily market and chose to divest in order to concentrate on its core assets. Occupancy was 79%, and a new owner could refurbish the building.  That buyer ended up being a large not-for-profit organization based in Minnesota that does plan to refresh and rebrand the... Read More »

CBRE Finances West Coast Construction Project 

CBRE National Senior Housing arranged construction financing for The Springs at the Waterfront, a to-be-built senior living community on the Vancouver, Washington waterfront. Harrison Street, The Springs Living and PMB LLC are joint venturing on the project, which will include 250 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. Set on 1.3 acres within the master-planned Vancouver Waterfront and its 32 acres of office space, retail and residential units, the community will be managed by The Springs Living upon completion. To fund the construction, CBRE’s Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Tim Root secured a $145.1 million floating rate loan with four years of interest only through a... 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 »