• 60 Seconds with Swett: The Republican Budget and Medicaid Cuts

    There will be significant political interest in what happens to Medicaid funding as Republicans work to pass a budget and tax bill with their very slim majority. Touching entitlements remains politically risky, and the party is divided on whether any Medicaid cuts would be acceptable heading into an election cycle. At this stage, per-capita caps... Read More »
  • Sonida Senior Living Continues Upward Trend

    We are at the end of the first quarter 2025 earning roll call, and Sonida Senior Living posted another solid quarter. Weighted average occupancy for its same-community portfolio (56 communities) increased by 100 basis points year over year to 86.8%, which is at the top end of many of its competitors. In addition, same-community RevPOR increased... Read More »
  • Regional Owner/Operator Purchases Turnaround SNF

    Evans Senior Investments was engaged by a regional owner in a partnership with the University of Michigan Health-West Hospital to facilitate the sale of a skilled nursing facility in Wyoming, Michigan. Opened nearly 10 years ago, Healthbridge Post Acute comprises 65 beds and was experiencing operational challenges, including an annual net... Read More »
  • Family Owner Divests CCRC to Not-For-Profit

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors sold a family-owned/operated CCRC in Maumee, Ohio, to a not-for-profit organization. The community had been in the seller’s family for 75 years, but they are divesting to enter retirement. Established in 1949, Elizabeth Scott Community spans 51 acres and offers independent living, assisted living, memory care... Read More »
  • HUD-Backed Seniors Housing Community Opens on Long Island

    A HUD-financed seniors housing project has celebrated its grand opening in Bay Shore, New York. Netherbay at Bay Shore is a state-of-the-art assisted living/memory care community located at the historic Gulden family’s summer homestead on Long Island. It features 72 units and is operated by Meridian Senior Living. Greystone’s Lisa Fischman had... Read More »
Dwight Capital Announces Third Quarter Activity

Dwight Capital Announces Third Quarter Activity

Dwight Capital and its affiliate REIT, Dwight Mortgage Trust, financed $192.29 million in seniors housing and healthcare financing during the third quarter of 2022. Dwight provided a $42 million bridge loan to facilitate the acquisition of a three-property SNF portfolio in New Hampshire: Epsom Healthcare Center, Maple Leaf Healthcare Center and Villa Crest Nursing and Retirement Center. The facilities have 387 beds and approximately 195,860 square feet. Josh Sturm originated the transaction. Dwight also financed a $27 million bridge acquisition loan for a portfolio of four assisted living/memory care communities in Jamestown and Frewsburg, New York: Tanglewood Manor, Memory Gardens, The... Read More »
Urban Developments Keep Rising in Seniors Housing

Urban Developments Keep Rising in Seniors Housing

Minnesota-based developer Ryan Companies in collaboration with Harrison Street and Cadence Living have announced its latest seniors housing community in Arizona, Acoya Shea of Scottsdale. Construction has begun on the $64 million community which will comprise 147 units of independent and assisted living. At a cost of $435,000 per unit, the latest community by the development trio will encompass 197,000 square feet on 2.5 acres just miles from Phoenix. The project received a construction loan from Regions Bank. The buyers of the land were represented by Keith Mishkin of Cambridge Properties and Jim Riggs of Platinum Advisors. Daniel Raimer, the vice president of real estate development for... Read More »
60 Seconds With Swett: ​​PE Firms Scrutinize Labor-Intensive Healthcare Deals

60 Seconds With Swett: ​​PE Firms Scrutinize Labor-Intensive Healthcare Deals

I attended the McDermott Will & Emery HPE New York event last week and learned a lot about private equity firms’ healthcare M&A strategies, and how valuations, deal processes, terms and their targeted sectors are changing in a rising interest rate world and in a recession. Healthcare companies are going through many of the same woes as senior care: fraught sponsor/lender relationships, wide bid-ask spreads, increased deal scrutiny from buyers and capital providers. That last one doesn’t sound bad. And there were always the optimistic comments around demographics and healthcare’s recession-resistance. But the general observation was that the party has ended, and the M&A boom of... Read More »
Kauhale Health Set to Grow in the Midwest

Kauhale Health Set to Grow in the Midwest

Brand-new operator Kauhale Health announced it has formed a strategic alliance with seniors housing industry veteran Torey Riso. The former CEO of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors and publicly traded Care Investment Trust will assist Kauhale in expanding its Midwest portfolio, which currently sits at one owned and one managed property, both in Michigan. According to Levin Pro LTC, Kauhale Health made their first seniors housing acquisition in August with the purchase of Vicinia Gardens of Otsego, a 52-unit assisted living community in Michigan. Previously, Kauhale was appointed manager of the CCRC Vista Grande Villa in Jackson, Michigan in March 2022. By partnership with Mr. Riso,... Read More »
Locus Point Provides Financing

Locus Point Provides Financing

Live Oak Bank and Locust Point Capital closed a $15.2 million loan through an A/B unitranche product for Georgia-based Phoenix Senior Living. The financing will retire the existing construction debt of Retreat at Lady’s Island, a 75-unit assisted living/memory care community in Beaufort, South Carolina. Built in 2018 by Connexion Senior Living, the $10.2 million, or $136,000 per unit, construction project encompasses 55,000 square feet and sits just northeast of Savannah, Georgia. With the transaction, Live Oak Bank was able to expand its relationship with both Phoenix Senior Living and Locust Point Capital. Read More »
Oxford Finance Provides $124 Million Acquisition Loan

Oxford Finance Provides $124 Million Acquisition Loan

Oxford Finance announced the closing of a $124.7 million senior credit facility for the acquisition of four Autumn Lake Healthcare skilled nursing facilities. Located in Burtonsville, Sykesville, Rising Sun and Manchester, the four facilities comprise a total of 520 licensed beds and sold for a combined $142.5 million, or $276,200 per bed. Gideon Orion of Walker & Dunlop handled the sale. Autumn Lake Healthcare maintains a network of independently owned and operated nursing homes and rehabilitative care centers across Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. The seller, Axis Health, sold two other facilities on the Eastern Shore of Maryland to Key Health... Read More »
Bourne Financial Group’s Arizona Acquisition

Bourne Financial Group’s Arizona Acquisition

Florida-based private equity investor Bourne Financial Group acquired a large senior living community in Mesa, Arizona. Built in 1978 and significantly renovated from 2013 to 2017, Bella Vista features 188 units of independent living and assisted living. It was previously owned by a joint venture between two real estate investment firms: Wexford Real Estate Investors and Beztak Companies. They were represented by Cushman & Wakefield in the transaction. Rick Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig, Sam Dylag and Jack Griffin worked on the deal. Going forward, Bourne Financial Group will manage the community with its in-house operator, Park Avenue Lifestyle. The property was considered to... Read More »
Oxford Capital Group and Fortress Investment Group Acquire Washington State Portfolio

Oxford Capital Group and Fortress Investment Group Acquire Washington State Portfolio

Chicago-based real estate investor Oxford Capital Group, in a joint venture with funds managed by affiliates of Fortress Investment Group, announced the acquisition of three seniors housing properties in Sequim, Washington. Previously owned by an independent family operator, The Sherwood Portfolio comprises 256 units. New ownership will invest over $8 million in building renovations and an expansion of the portfolio’s assisted living and memory care offerings. Oxford’s senior housing management affiliate, Oxford Living US LLC, will manage the properties. Read More »
Tryko Partners Acquires Pennsylvania SNF

Tryko Partners Acquires Pennsylvania SNF

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors sold a skilled nursing facility in West Chester, Pennsylvania, on behalf of a joint venture partnership seller. West Chester Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center comprises 180 beds and 102,000 square feet on 14 acres just north of Wilmington, Delaware, and west of Philadelphia. New ownership will take advantage of the state’s July 2022 announcement to significantly increase Medicaid reimbursement. The increase is effective starting in 2023 and will include $500 million to long-term care facilities, the largest such increase during a single Pennsylvania budget cycle. According to Levin Pro LTC, this is Tryko Partners’ third skilled nursing... Read More »
Asland and Others Acquire Affordable Seniors Housing

Asland and Others Acquire Affordable Seniors Housing

Asland Capital Partners, Fairstead, iimpact Capital, and Nuveen Real Estate partnered together on the acquisition of Woodbridge Manor, an affordable 165-unit senior apartment community in Irvine, California. Built from 1981 to 2003 with a substantial renovation in 2006, the community had been owned by Innovative Housing Opportunities since its opening. The acquisition marks Asland’s first California acquisition and its second in the seniors housing market. For Fairstead, this acquisition grows its portfolio in California to nearly 1,000 units. Financing was provided by Lument through the Freddie Mac CME program. Marcus & Millichap’s Affordable Housing Advisors served as the seller’s... Read More »
Elevation Financial Group Makes Sixth Acquisition of 2022

Elevation Financial Group Makes Sixth Acquisition of 2022

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announced the sale of an independent living community in Indianapolis, Indiana. A publicly traded REIT engaged Blueprint to sell the 148-unit community, which was built in 1985 and renovated in the 1990s. Operations were decent, but the buyer, Elevation Financial Group, plans to convert the community into middle market senior apartments. Ryan Kelly, Brooks Blackmon, Connor Doherty of Blueprint worked on the deal. This is not the first time Elevation has invested in a similar conversion project. According to Levin Pro LTC, earlier this year the company acquired Easley Place, a 222-unit CCRC in South Carolina, and converted it into middle market... Read More »