• SLIB’s Active Start to May 

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage hit a rich vein of activity at the start of May, reporting several closings for seniors housing and skilled nursing assets. First, Jason Punzel, Brad Goodsell, Vince Viverito and Jake Anderson facilitated the sale of a seniors housing community in Grants Pass, Oregon. Built in the 1960s, Oak Lane Retirement... Read More »
  • Final Asset Closes in SNF Portfolio Acquired by Ensign

    The Ensign Group acquired the real estate and operations of Marianwood Health and Rehabilitation, a 117-bed skilled nursing facility in Issaquah, Washington. The real estate was acquired by a subsidiary of Standard Bearer Healthcare REIT, Inc., Ensign’s captive real estate company, and will be operated by an Ensign-affiliated tenant. The... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Secures Financing for Two Standalone-Memory Care Communities

    BWE, together with Blueprint Capital Markets, closed two loans totaling $17.82 million to provide financing for the acquisition of two Class-A memory care communities: Windsong at Southridge ($10.42 million) and Windsong at Eola Hills ($7.4 million). Lundat Kassa of BWE handled the financing, having been brought onto the deal by the team at... Read More »
  • Montgomery Intermediary Group Announces M&A and Financing Activity

    Montgomery Intermediary Group continued its active 2025 with a financing and two recent M&A closings. First, Jeremy Warren worked on behalf of an owner/operator seeking to recapitalize a 210-unit assisted living community that was originally a purpose-built hotel. The goal was to generate cash for ownership and to finance cosmetic renovations... Read More »
  • Live Oak Closes Bridge-to-Sale Loan

    In April 2025, Live Oak Bank closed a $25 million bridge loan for a Harbert Seniors Housing Fund I, LP-held seniors housing community. The loan provides a bridge-to-sale and features a three-year initial term, 36 months of interest-only payments and $2.8 million in potential future earnout proceeds. Loan proceeds were used to return capital to... Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield Sells Two Massachusetts Communities

Cushman & Wakefield Sells Two Massachusetts Communities

Cushman & Wakefield’s Senior Housing Capital Markets team arranged the sale of Wingate Residences at Boylston Place, a 48-unit assisted living community, and Wingate at Chestnut Hill, a 135-bed skilled nursing facility on a campus in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.  C&W represented the institutional seller, a pension fund investor who is exiting the senior living space. They selected a joint venture between Harrison Street and LCB Senior Living, LLC as the buyer. LCB plans to upgrade the existing assisted living building and convert the existing skilled nursing portion to additional assisted living space, memory care and common areas.  This is the fifth closing in a series of... Read More »
JCH Senior Housing Closes SNF Sale in California

JCH Senior Housing Closes SNF Sale in California

JCH Senior Housing Investment Brokerage has closed a skilled nursing facility sale in Fresno, California. An owner/operator sold the facility for $6.42 million after needing an immediate buyer to keep the facility afloat, and an experienced regional owner/operator looking to expand its presence in the Fresno area ultimately purchased it. The facility was under LOI within two weeks, so it sounds like mission accomplished. Cindy Hazzard and Jennifer Contreras of JCH handled the transaction.  Read More »
CBRE Closes Large Acquisition Financing

CBRE Closes Large Acquisition Financing

CBRE National Senior Housing arranged more than $200 million in acquisition and recapitalization financing for seven senior living communities across three different transactions. The financing was done on behalf of Monarch Alternative Capital LP and REDICO, the buyers of the properties.   The portfolio includes 1,133 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care in Florida, Illinois and Michigan. The five Florida properties with 817 units are relatively new and have been operated by American House Senior Living Communities. They are located in Bluewater Bay, Bonita Springs, Coconut Point, Fort Myers and Wildwood. The one community in... Read More »
CareTrust REIT CEO Greg Stapley Steps Down

CareTrust REIT CEO Greg Stapley Steps Down

Amid rumors that CareTrust REIT was looking to make some changes, which may have included a sale or merger of the company into another REIT, the company announced that the CEO, Greg Stapley, will be stepping down at the end of the year, and sometime next year he will commence a three-year, full-time volunteer assignment with The Church of Latter-Day Saints with his wife.  CareTrust was spun out from The Ensign Group in 2014 and Greg has been the only CEO since then. He will become the Executive Chairman at CareTrust.  Taking over will be David Sedgewick, who has been President and COO and will now add the CEO title. He was with Ensign from 2001... Read More »
Radiant Senior Living Sells AL Community in Washington

Radiant Senior Living Sells AL Community in Washington

Ziegler announced its role as exclusive sell-side advisor to Radiant Senior Living in the sale of South Pointe Assisted Living, a 42-unit independent living and assisted living community located in Everett, Washington. Radiant, a West-Coast-based family-owner and operator of senior care communities, acquired the community in 2020 as part of a larger portfolio transaction including one other community in the Greater Seattle area as well as another community in Bozeman, Montana. The portfolio, which featured a majority of assisted living units, reportedly sold for just under $200,000 per unit.   Prior to acquiring the community from the previous lessor, Radiant... Read More »
Blueprint Closes Sale of Rural Washington Community

Blueprint Closes Sale of Rural Washington Community

Blueprint Real Estate Advisors is closing 2021 with a slew of deals, including Blake Bozett’s sale of a 40-unit assisted living community in Prosser, Washington. Built in 1999, Amber Hills Assisted Living underwent a $2 million expansion in 2016. It has a nearly 30% Medicaid census, and the community was positioned as a value-add opportunity, with occupancy fluctuating during the transaction process.   The seller is a local group who has been in the senior living industry for decades but will focus their energy on different business endeavors, and the buyer is a regional owner/operator, which will look to increase the assisted living unit count through a... Read More »
Brookdale Month-End Occupancy Falls in November

Brookdale Month-End Occupancy Falls in November

The brevity of Brookdale Senior Living’s occupancy update said a lot: there was not much good news to report. After eight consecutive months of increases, month-end occupancy decreased by 20 basis points from 74.5% in October to 74.3% in November. There could be numerous reasons for this, from the Omicron variant to the onset of the flu season to a staffing shortage, but demand clearly did not overcome these factors in the month of November. And these headwinds are not getting better anytime soon. Brookdale expects to continue publishing monthly occupancy through December 2021 reporting, so we could learn whether this decline is a blip or a trend.  Brookdale did... Read More »
AL Sale in Arizona Closed By The Knapp-Stahler Group

AL Sale in Arizona Closed By The Knapp-Stahler Group

Nick Stahler and Hap Knowles of The Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap recently closed on the sale of an 83-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Phoenix, Arizona MSA. Built in 2017, the property includes more than 120 beds. A national private equity firm that originally developed the community also managed the property, but ran into challenges throughout the pandemic. They selected an experienced, western-based owner/operator to acquire the community, with a closing price falling significantly below replacement cost. No other details were disclosed.  Read More »
Luxury Development By JV Underway in Florida

Luxury Development By JV Underway in Florida

A joint venture between Ryan Companies and Grand Living Management is set to begin the development of a luxury 206-unit senior living community in Naples, Florida. The developers acquired the 7.9-acre parcel of land for the project for $5.2 million according to Collier County Data. The JV also received a five-year, $48.7 million construction loan from Trustmark National Bank to support the development. Named Grand Living at Naples, the community will consist of 166 independent and assisted living units and 40 memory care units across 241,071 square feet and four stories. Amenities will include various dining spots, a library, club room, wellness center with a fitness area, a spa and a... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Facilitates Refinancing of Six Illinois SNFs

Walker & Dunlop Facilitates Refinancing of Six Illinois SNFs

Walker & Dunlop recently announced a $43.2 million refinancing for six skilled nursing facilities located across Illinois: Aperion Care Bridgeport, Aperion Care Burbank, Aperion Care Dekalb, Aperion Care Litchfield, Aperion Care Wilmington, and Rock River Health Care. Totaling 640 beds across 277 units, the portfolio received HUD financing, with Aperion Care Dekalb also transferring its physical assets through Walker & Dunlop. AC Bridgeport received $3.88 million, AC Burbank received $6.88 million, AC Dekalb received $6.28 million, AC Litchfield received $3.55 million, AC Wilmington received $16.24 million and Rock River Health Care received $6.4 million.  Read More »

60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: Venting About Medicare

Okay, I know it is the season to be jolly, but it has been a while since I have had something to vent about. When I signed up for Medicare two years ago (I know, hard to believe) I signed up for everything except Part D drug coverage. I had no prescriptions so why get coverage I didn’t need. Two years in, for a variety of reasons, I decided to sign up even though I still have no prescriptions. Just being conservative. A week after receiving my approval letter from United Healthcare, I received another letter saying I would be charged a “Late Enrollment Penalty” fee on my monthly premium. Because I had two years of no coverage, they use that period to calculate the monthly penalty. This... Read More »