• Blueprint Closes Two Seniors Transactions in Ohio

    Blueprint recently handled two transactions in Ohio. First, Conner Doherty and Ryan Kelly facilitated the sale of a seniors housing community in a desirable market in Ohio. The not-for-profit seller was The Heritage Retirement Community. Built in 2000, The Belvedere of Westlake comprises 24 assisted living and nine memory care units in Westlake.... Read More »
  • Invesque Shareholders to Vote on Two Proposals

    Invesque has called a special shareholder meeting for June 18, 2025, where shareholders will vote on two proposals. First, they will consider enabling Invesque’s board to sell or lease substantially all of the company’s assets through one or more transactions. That could include direct asset sales, the sale of subsidiary equity, mergers, or other... Read More »
  • Dwight Mortgage Trust Finances Bridge Loan

    Dwight Mortgage Trust, the affiliate REIT of Dwight Capital, financed a $20 million bridge loan for Bria of Palos Hills, a 207-bed skilled nursing facility in Palos Hills, Illinois (Chicago MSA). Originally built in 1980, the facility received a major renovation and expansion in 2016 with the addition of a two-story wing connected to the original... Read More »
  • Kisco Senior Living Buys Beds in North Carolina

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage was engaged by a North Carolina-based skilled nursing owner to confidentially market and sell 75 adult care home beds in Wake County, North Carolina. The beds were affiliated with multiple skilled nursing facilities located across the county and were slated for sale because the owner was eliminating assisted... Read More »
  • Texas Capital Bank Provides Financing to Regional Operator

    A California-based regional senior care operator with more than 20 facilities across the western United States recently obtained a revolving credit facility, arranged by Grant Goodman of G Capital. Proceeds from the $30 million facility will be used to support working capital requirements and continue the owner’s strategic expansion as new... 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 »

Optalis Healthcare Moves Into Ohio

An Ohio-based senior care operator was looking to exit the skilled nursing business and sold a portfolio of five facilities while subleasing another two SNFs in the Columbus, Ohio market. The five facilities sold for a total of $81 million, or roughly $130,000 per bed/unit. Connor Doherty and Ryan Kelly of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors handled the transaction. Since the start of operations in 1984, the seven facilities have consisted of roughly 750 dually certified skilled nursing beds and 200 senior housing units. And they historically operated near stabilized levels with consistent $70+ million of annual revenue, but performance drastically declined during the pandemic. Amid... Read More »

Creativcap Secures Two Construction Financings

With interest rates rising and inflation not slowing down, the seniors housing construction market is definitely becoming a riskier venture. However, Scott Kavel of Creativcap successfully arranged two construction financings for a couple of clients where the lenders decided to hold the entire exposure on their balance sheets, despite participation interest. These must be high-quality projects in strong markets with “best-in-class” operating partners to justify that confidence level. First, Mr. Kavel arranged a $70 million construction/permanent loan for a to-be-built 157-unit independent/assisted living community in California. Building the community in an opportunity zone, the buyer... Read More »

CarePartners Acquires Bremerton, Washington Property

An established Seattle-based owner/operator of memory care communities emerged to acquire a 50-unit MC community in Bremerton, Washington whose national owner/operator seller had deemed it to be a strategic outlier. Previously operating as a skilled nursing facility, the building was completely gutted and renovated in 2016 to reopen as essentially a brand-new memory care community in 2017 with 62 beds in 50 units. Each unit has a private bathroom, and the building as a whole is in very good condition with Pacific Northwest design elements.  However, it operated as a private pay community and consistently did not draw a high census, averaging around 66% in the last couple of years,... Read More »

Helios Closes Two Assisted Living Transactions

Helios Healthcare Advisors has been hard at work arranging a sale, securing acquisition financing and finding a new operator for a couple of clients. First, the team structured the sale of Harvest View of Herscher, a 42-unit assisted living community on an 8-acre site in Herscher, Illinois.  Family-owned and developed in 2008, the community was supposed to expand in order to include market-rate multifamily apartments. The seller engaged Helios to run a process to find an acquirer who could see value in continuing the original mission of the venture, ultimately moving forward with Peoria, Illinois-based Petersen Healthcare.  Helios next arranged both an operating partner and... Read More »
Northmarq Arranges Large Refinance for South Carolina Community

Northmarq Arranges Large Refinance for South Carolina Community

Northmarq’s Seattle office arranged a $39 million refinance of Merrill Gardens at Carolina Park, a 158-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community located in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. The high-quality community sits on 14.8 acres with monthly rent starting at $4,200 a month. Built in three phases from 2018 to 2021, the main building was completed in 2018 with 130 units, 28 cottages were delivered in 2019, and in 2021, a swimming pool and fitness center addition were completed. Built in 2021, the community is only 16 miles north of Charleston providing quick access to the city’s attractions and restaurants. The loan entails a 5-year fixed rate and 18 months of... Read More »
The Rise of Active Adult

The Rise of Active Adult

We’ve talked about the new active adult sector a lot lately because a lot of people are talking about it. First, several years ago, our inboxes began filling with announcements of groundbreakings for this new product type, and as those accelerated in the last couple of years, we started to see more acquisitions of the communities, which had in many cases reached 100% occupancy in a matter of months. More seniors housing and multifamily investors took notice, and as construction slowed throughout the pandemic and as operators dealt first with COVID then with lower occupancy and labor costs, the sector was seen as a supremely safe investment. And we had to agree. But as the sector begins to... Read More »
Blueprint Closes NHI Sale of 4 Comfort Care Communities

Blueprint Closes NHI Sale of 4 Comfort Care Communities

Comfort Care Senior Living bought four of its assisted living/memory care communities from its landlord National Health Investors, and brought on Alex Florea, Michael Segal and Brooks Blackmon of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors to advise them on the deal.  Centered around Detroit and Saginaw, Michigan, the portfolio consists of 236 total units of varying vintages. Two communities opened around 2013, and two opened more recently, with one property completed in 2019 and still in lease-up going into the pandemic. The communities exhibited strong performance trends pre-COVID, but faced occupancy and profitability declines during the pandemic which created friction within the lease... Read More »