• 60 Seconds with Swett: The Great Debates of Senior Care

    Next week for our Second Quarter Investor Call, sponsored by Ziegler, we’ll be trying something different that is sure to be both entertaining and useful for our audience of operators, investors, brokers, lenders and everyone else. We’ll be tackling The Great Debates of Senior Care, covering some of the most important issues facing the industry.... Read More »
  • Thank You Ortelius?

    Brookdale Senior Living just reported June occupancy, and the increases were much better than we expected for a second quarter, which historically has been a mixed bag for the industry. Let’s just say, we were impressed. June’s same-community weighted average occupancy was 81.1%, up 220 basis points year over year and up 50 basis points... Read More »
  • SLIB Sells SNF in New Jersey

    Toby Siefert of Senior Living Investment Brokerage got a skilled nursing sale in New Jersey over the finish line after survey issues caused a buyer switch-up. Built in 1980, Medford Care Center is located in the town of Medford (about an hour east of Philadelphia) and features 180 beds on an 11-acre campus. Operations were not strong, and the... Read More »
  • Carnegie Capital Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary with Texas Portfolio Deal

    Carnegie Capital, the national seniors housing debt brokerage founded and run by JD Stettin and David Farhadian, celebrated its 10-year anniversary with a $124 million, or $117,100 per bed, portfolio acquisition transaction. Carnegie provided a combination of advisory work and debt placement for the nine-skilled nursing facility portfolio with... Read More »
  • 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 »

Historic Hamilton Heights Sells in West Hartford

Real estate investment firm Lloyd Jones just announced its fourth seniors housing acquisition of the year, so far, with the purchase of a Hamilton Heights in West Hartford, Connecticut. Built as a Roman Catholic boarding school for girls in 1905, the property was adapted into an independent living, assisted living, and memory care community in 1997. The property features a Georgian revival facade with four and five stories that stretch over ten acres, comprising 113 total units. It was also recently renovated and shows well. The property has sold several times over the years, falling into the hands of Ventas and Atria Senior Living for a number of years until December 2021, when they... Read More »

Two Assisted Living Communities Trade Near Seattle

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors closed the sale of two assisted living communities in the greater Seattle, Washington area on behalf of a national operator client. The first community, located in Renton, was built in 1983 and comprises 80 assisted living units. It had a strong operation, maintaining occupancy rates above 95% for the last three years running. Both private pay and Medicaid residents made up the census, and with intention to stay affordable, rents start at $2,800 a month. An internet search combined with our own outreach to the community confirmed that Brookdale Senior Living was the previous owner and operator of the property, which will be renamed Green Lake... Read More »

Avamere Exits New Mexico Market

Wilsonville, Oregon-based Avamere Family of Companies has exited the state of New Mexico with the sale of its 85-bed transitional care facility in Albuquerque. The short-term rehab facility was a popular referral destination for the area’s largest hospitals, and it was experiencing rapid census growth following an operator transition in 2019. Financial performance was improving too, with total revenues exceeding $8.5 million. Following the marketing process, five competitive offers were submitted, with a regional owner/operator looking to expand their footprint in the state, ultimately succeeding.  Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors Amy Sitzman, Jacob Gehl, Humair Sabir and... Read More »

$200 million CCRC Development in the Works Near Cincinnati

Just outside of Cincinnati, in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, plans have been initiated to build a 262-unit entrance fee CCRC. In charge of the development is Greenbrier Development, a Dallas-based seniors housing consulting group and developer. They are partnering with Brandicorp and St. Elizabeth Healthcare, which intend on investing between $20 million and $25 million into the development. The first phase of the development is expected to cost upwards of $200 million, or $760,000 per unit. This will be Greenbrier’s first ground-up development in the region. The structure of the community will comprise 196 independent living units, 18 assisted living units, 24 memory support units and 24... Read More »

Helios Structures Partnership Buyout

Helios Healthcare Advisors has structured a partnership buyout of an Indiana-based assisted living and memory care provider. The company, which included Hendricks County Hospital as an owning partner, operated Golden LivingCenter – Woodbridge, a 67-unit assisted living/memory care community in Evansville, Indiana. Acquired by the partnership in 2012, the community underwent a complete renovation in 2015 and reopened as the first standalone memory care community in Evansville, before an expansion added traditional assisted living units as well.In 2019, Helios helped secure construction financing for that project. Post-expansion and renovation, Helios then worked to recapitalize the... Read More »

Meridian Announces Slew of Senior Care Transactions

So far in 2022, Meridian Capital Group’s Senior Housing and Healthcare Team has closed $2.2 billion in transaction volume, following a record year in 2021 where they closed nearly $5.6 billion. The latest transactions were negotiated by Meridian’s Senior Housing and Healthcare Platform, led by Ari Adlerstein and Josh Simpson, along with Vice Presidents, Matt Lesnik, Jesse Rauch, and Rafi Sod, and Senior Associates, David Gottlieb, Jacob Scott, and Yuval Hananya, as well as Associate, Dylan O’Connor. Starting with the sales, the team sold  two skilled nursing facilities in New York totaling 515 beds for $129.3 million, or $251,000 per bed, and arranged a $129.5 million loan, which... Read More »