• Regional Owner/Operator Enters New State

    A regional owner/operator looking to enter the state of Indiana acquired Smith Farms Manor, an independent living community in Auburn, about 30 miles south of the Michigan border. Built in 1998, the community features 51 units and is well maintained. It sits on an attractive four-acre campus down the street from Parkview DeKalb Hospital and off... Read More »
  • Skilled Nursing Portfolio Gets New Operator

    Evans Senior Investments secured a new lease for a skilled nursing portfolio in Tennessee on behalf of an institutional owner. The portfolio features four assets and was operating below 70% occupancy with margins under 10%. Despite that performance, ESI secured a lease $3 million above in-place cash flow, reflecting the operational upside that... Read More »
  • Seniors Housing and Care M&A Remains Elevated in Q1:26

    The number of publicly announced seniors housing and care acquisitions in the first quarter of 2026 reached 231 deals, based on new acquisition data from LevinPro LTC. This represents a 19.8% decrease from the 288 transactions disclosed in the fourth quarter of 2025, but a 25.5% increase from the 184 deals in Q1:25.   “It was always going... Read More »
  • Clarion Acquires Again in Colorado

    Two years after opening a 160-unit seniors housing community in Centennial, Colorado (Denver MSA), MorningStar Senior Living announced an expanding relationship with Clarion Partners, a leading real estate investment company and specialty investment manager of Franklin Templeton, in its acquisition of MorningStar at Holly Park. The community... Read More »
  • Brookdale’s Summer Test Ahead

    Brookdale Senior Living reported its March occupancy results, and it unfortunately took another step in the wrong direction. We will get a better read when peers report first-quarter results and when NIC MAP releases its next tranche of occupancy data, but at this point, it seems as though Brookdale will need a particularly strong performance... Read More »
Omega Healthcare Investors Working through It

Omega Healthcare Investors Working through It

Omega Healthcare Investors just provided an operator update, and the REIT will be working through some lingering problems for at least another year, if not longer. Perhaps the biggest problem remains Maplewood Senior Living, a Connecticut-based provider of assisted living and memory care services that is located about 10 miles from our Connecticut HQ. We tried to reach out to the founder several years ago, trying to be “neighborly,” but our efforts were ignored. Maybe they could have received some good advice. The company’s initial developments were on Connecticut’s Gold Coast, in the high-income neighborhoods of Fairfield County. Now, these areas are known to be high-barrier-to-entry... Read More »
Beverly Hills SNF Sells

Beverly Hills SNF Sells

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announced the sale of a skilled nursing facility in Los Angeles, California. Built in 1997, The Rehabilitation Centre of Beverly Hills comprises 150 Medicare beds and is located near the prestigious hospital of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. It also received many referrals from the hospital. There was an active bidding process, and a Los Angeles-based family office ultimately sold the asset to a private, high-net-worth owner/operator based in Los Angeles. The seller also negotiated a short-term lease for the facility until it identified an exchange property. Jacob Gehl, Humair Sabir and Scott Frazier of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors... Read More »
CBRE Does Double Duty on Two Transactions

CBRE Does Double Duty on Two Transactions

The CBRE National Senior Housing Investment Properties team completed the sale of two Class-A communities in the last couple of weeks of December. Not only that, CBRE’s Debt & Structured Finance team helped finance both transactions. First, CBRE’s John Sweeny, Aron Will, Garrett Sacco and Scott Bray represented Harrison Street and Bridgewood Property Company in the joint venture’s sale of The Village at River Oaks in Houston, Texas. Opened in 2017, the mid-rise community features 198 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. CBRE had been involved with the property since arranging development financing for it in 2015. In August 2019, the firm then refinanced that... Read More »
Strawberry Fields REIT Buys Kentucky SNF

Strawberry Fields REIT Buys Kentucky SNF

South Bend, Indiana-based Strawberry Fields REIT announced it has acquired a skilled nursing facility in Jackson, Kentucky. Built in 1971 and renovated in 2021, the Nim Henson Geriatric Center comprises 120 beds and sits on just under three acres in eastern Kentucky. It is the only SNF in Breathitt County and offers a range of services. In addition, it is situated close to the Kentucky River Medical Center, a small regional acute hospital. As part of the transaction, the facility was added to the Landmark master lease, joining a network of other Landmark SNFs and LTACHs operated by A&M Healthcare Investments in Kentucky, Texas, Oklahoma, Illinois, and Michigan. A&M has been a... Read More »
60 Seconds With Swett: Healthcare M&A Activity Broke a Record in 2022, Too

60 Seconds With Swett: Healthcare M&A Activity Broke a Record in 2022, Too

Last week, we confirmed that long-term care M&A activity hit a record in 2022, but what about for the healthcare market as a whole? Across all other healthcare sectors, from home health and hospitals to physician groups and biotech, our sister site LevinPro HC tracked nearly 2,400 deals in 2022, or 2,392 to be exact at this moment, but we expect that number to creep up in the coming days and weeks. That does not even include the over-500 long-term care deals, and represents an 8% increase over the previous record of 2,214 deals in 2021. For many investors, the long-term demographics, strong governmental support and attractive yields in the healthcare industry are too good to pass up,... Read More »
Brookdale Senior Living Reports December Occupancy

Brookdale Senior Living Reports December Occupancy

Sometimes no news is good news. After two straight months of declines, Brookdale SeniorLiving reported that December’s month-end occupancy remained flat with November at 78.1%.That can be considered good news since we are in the beginning of what could be a terrible fluand COVID season. In addition, weighted average occupancy remained flat from November to December at 77.0%,after dropping by 20 basis points in November. If they can hold the line for the next threemonths, the company could start to see some improvement in the second quarter. Weightedaverage occupancy peaked in October at 77.2%, while month-end occupancy peaked inSeptember at 78.4%. So far this year, after a dismal 2022,... Read More »
Two End-of-Year Deals from Blueprint

Two End-of-Year Deals from Blueprint

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announced a couple other late-2022 transactions in the Midwest. The first deal featured an active adult community in the Dayton, Ohio MSA selling to a private equity investor and operator that is looking to expand through an aggressive acquisition strategy. Built in the mid-2000s, the 40-unit community was nearly 100% occupied. It was previously owned by a regional owner/operator that had sold two nearby skilled nursing facilities at the end of 2021, one of which was adjacent to the active adult community. The same PE buyer had acquired those SNFs, and adding this community, plus a 12,000-square-foot office building and a 5.7-acre parcel, made... Read More »
SLIB Announces 150th Texas Transaction

SLIB Announces 150th Texas Transaction

To kick off 2023, Matthew Alley and Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage sold a 132-bed skilled nursing facility in Sherman, Texas, marking the 150th building that Mr. Alley and SLIB have sold in the Lone Star State across more than 16 years. They represented a private partnership based in Dallas in the deal. While a large share of SNFs were built 40 or more years ago, this facility was built in 2006. It currently operates with 115 beds and is 63% occupied. On a trailing-six-month basis, the facility was generating more than $60,000 in EBITDAR on $6.87 million of revenues. Any positive cash flow in the SNF sector should generate interest from buyers, and a Fort Worth-based... Read More »
Grandbridge Handles High-End CCRC Sale in Naples

Grandbridge Handles High-End CCRC Sale in Naples

A high-end CCRC in Naples, Florida in financial distress sold to Life Care Services in a deal handled by Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s Senior Housing Investment Sales team led by Dave Kliewer and Jay Jordan. Opened in 2015 on 39 acres in the Lely Resort master-planned community of Naples, the community offers 47 independent living cottages, 128 IL units, 42 assisted living units, 37 memory care units and 44 skilled nursing units, with plenty of amenities. Entrance fees average around $950,000, which would certainly put the community on the high end of the Naples area. However, the community was in default on around $136.32 million of Series 2013 and 2015 bonds (as of June 1, 2022) plus... Read More »

Live Oak Bank/Berkadia Close Utah Loan

Live Oak Bank closed a $16.3 million A/B unitranche loan for an owner/operator of skilled nursing facilities in Utah. Berkadia Commercial Mortgage’s Seniors Housing & Healthcare Group assisted in the process, too. The financing provided bridge-to-HUD debt for a 38-bed transitional care/skilled nursing facility that opened in 2019 and provides short-term rehabilitation services. The loan announcement comes after Live Oak Bank closed a $13 million loan to refinance a 94-unit assisted living/memory care community in Lawrenceville, Georgia. That property also opened in 2019 and was leasing up when the pandemic began. So, the loan allows for additional time to fill the community before a... Read More »
Lument Refinances Two Oklahoma SNFs

Lument Refinances Two Oklahoma SNFs

Lument closed $16.9 million in HUD financing for two skilled nursing facilities in Oklahoma. The two skilled nursing facilities combine for a total of 266 beds. One was built in 2006, with an addition completed in 2010, while the larger facility was built in 1953 and renovated in 1967, 1985 and 2018. Bill Wilson, managing director at Lument, arranged the loans, which were issued with 35-year amortizations and fixed interest rates. They replaced existing variable-rate, personally guaranteed commercial bank debt and also reimbursed nearly $2 million of the borrower’s previous capital expenditures. Read More »