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 housing combined with rising prices in the M&A market would kick off a new building boom. We doubt there will be any “boom” in 2026, but the signs are there for increased activity. A couple of architects we spoke to at NIC said they were busier than ever, even if most builders are not putting as many shovels in dirt as they would like. The main... 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 Investments was able to identify over $250,000 in potential annual savings on rehabilitation expenses and $87,000 in pharmacy savings. And the firm drove a competitive bidding process that successfully secured a record price of $20 million, or $156,250 per bed, based on the facility’s future stabilized potential rather than its current performance. The deal... 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 skilled nursing. Occupancy was nearly full, and the facility was profitable but operated below a 10% margin. The local owner, Steve Dashevsky, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on the facility in December 2024, around 16 years after he originally purchased the rest home. And SLIB was engaged by the seller and bankruptcy counsel to market... 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 Phoenix that will be taken over by Stellar Senior Living as the operator. The Retreat at Alameda broke ground in 2019, with Paradigm Senior Living operating the community upon opening in 2020. It was apparently approaching stabilized occupancy and positive cash flow, but it was not stabilized nor a cap rate deal. Knowles and Stahler... 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 attractive RevPORs. But there is still occupancy and rate-driven NOI upside for the buyer, an active public REIT that will retain Triple Crown Senior Living as the operator under a RIDEA structure. Kyle Hallion, Connor Doherty and Ryan Kelly handled the process, which was highly competitive with significant interest from public REITs, regional... Read More »
Borrower Refinances and Recapitalizes SNF Portfolio
Capital Funding Group closed a $72.4 million bridge financing on behalf of a nationally-recognized borrower. It will support the refinancing and dividend recapitalization of a skilled nursing portfolio comprising nine facilities throughout Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. CFG aligned the bridge financing with a clear path to permanent execution, allowing the borrower to access liquidity now while positioning the assets for continued performance. Jimmy Zabel originated the transaction for the company. Read More »
Ciel Senior Living Takes Over Former Brookdale Communities
The management of eight senior living communities owned by Janus Living, Healthpeak Properties’ spinoff REIT, recently transitioned from Brookdale Senior Living to Ciel Senior Living. The properties are part of a larger 19-asset portfolio that Healthpeak Properties and a sovereign wealth fund owned, but Healthpeak acquired its joint venture partner’s interest and decided to transfer management from Brookdale to both Ciel and Pegasus Senior Living. The 19 assets encompass 3,355 units, with independent living units representing approximately 73% of the total. The portfolio was 81.7% occupied as of the fourth quarter of 2025. The new management contracts include performance incentives,... Read More »
Not-for-Profit Selects New President and CEO
Sloan Bentley has been selected to serve as President and Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Retirement Services (PRS), a not-for-profit senior living organization based in Medford, Oregon. Bentley’s effective start date will be determined based on the closing of a financial restructuring for her current employer. She has a 40-plus year career in senior living, with extensive experience in the CCRC world. She cofounded Seniority Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of American Baptist Homes of the West, where for nearly 20 years she provided management, sales and marketing consultation to organizations nationwide. Bentley has held positions of leadership within growing senior living... Read More »
Healthcare REIT Divests SNF to In-Place Operating Partner
Senior Living Investment Brokerage returned to West Des Moines, Iowa, to sell a skilled nursing facility that it had previously sold in 2019. A healthcare REIT was the buyer back then and is now selling the facility to its in-place regional operating partner. Built in 2004, Arbor Springs features 56 beds on an attractive four-acre campus about 10 miles west of downtown Des Moines. Although it is licensed as a skilled nursing facility, it focuses on providing memory care services. Jason Punzel, Nick Cacciabando and Jeff Binder handled the transaction. Read More »
Near-Stabilized AL/MC Community Lands Refinance
Carnegie Capital closed a bridge refinance for a 50-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Houston, Texas MSA. Four years ago, the property was bought by a California-based operator with a growing footprint in Texas. Performance was approximately two to three months from stabilization, but with the acquisition loan maturity looming, a refinance was sought. Carnegie arranged a non-recourse loan for the principals, given the structure of the sponsor’s fund. The loan carries a three-year term, and the borrower has plans to go to HUD in two years. Read More »Schedule a demo
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