• 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 »

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 »

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 »