• 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 »

SLIB Sells in Texas and Kentucky

Senior Living Investment Brokerage announced a couple of seniors housing transactions this week, starting with the sale of an assisted living/memory care community in Farmers Branch, Texas (Dallas MSA). Built in 1998, The Avenues Of Park Forest comprises 86 units and was sold to a private equity firm for a purchase price of $8.2 million, or $95,000 per bed. Previously owned by a large investment manager and operated by a third-party manager, the community held an occupancy of 45% with revenues just north of $2 million at the time of market, but it was losing more than $500,000 a year. Matthew Alley and Jason Punzel of Senior Living Investment Brokerage found the buyer, which specializes in... Read More »

Novellus Living Enters Colorado Market

A large East Coast private equity firm divested its 66-unit assisted living community in Cherry Creek, Colorado, hiring Evans Senior Investments to handle the sale. Evans also helped secure debt for the buyer through its joint venture with Carnegie Capital. That buyer was California-based Novellus Living, which is making its first acquisition in the state after already acquiring facilities in California and Arizona. Built in 2002, the Colorado community sits just outside of Denver and comprises 66 assisted living units. While operating at 67% occupancy at the time of marketing and losing money, the community was able to increase occupancy to 79% throughout the transaction process while... Read More »

60 Seconds With Swett: Q3 Ends on a Down Note

We recorded 133 publicly announced seniors housing and care transactions in the third quarter, for an average of over 44 deals a month. That is the fourth-highest quarterly deal total ever recorded by LevinPro LTC, but is lower than the each of the last three quarters. What is very interesting though is that the rolling-12-month deal total has never been higher. In the period from October 1st, 2021 to September 30th, 2022, we have recorded 553 publicly announced transactions, down just one deal from the previous 12-month span ending August 31st, 2022, and that total has crept up steadily throughout the year. It’s also a preliminary total that is bound to rise. To put it in perspective, the... Read More »

Jonathan Rose Acquires Two Affordable Seniors Housing Communities

Jonathan Rose Cos. announced it has acquired two affordable seniors housing communities, Lakeland Place Apartments and Bowin Place Apartments in Detroit, Michigan, for a combined purchase price of $16.2 million, or $41,200 per unit. The two communities comprise a total of 393 units and sit within 20 miles of each other. Capital One provided HUD financing for both communities. Rose Community Management will manage the assets, and Rose Community Builders will oversee more than $15 million of renovations. Built in 1978 and comprising 200 units with one- and two- bedroom floorplans ranging between 550 and 760 square feet, Lakeland Place Apartments of Waterford sold for $8.2 million to a joint... Read More »

CareTrust REIT Sells Seven SNFs in Ohio

CareTrust REIT completed its sale of seven skilled nursing facilities in Ohio. Totaling approximately 600 skilled nursing beds and 100 seniors housing beds/units, the portfolio sold for $52 million, or around $72,000 per bed/unit. In connection with the sale, CareTrust’s master lease with affiliates of Trio Healthcare was terminated. The deal was the first closing of an announced plan in February 2022 to sell or re-tenant 32 properties. The remaining 25 seniors housing communities currently held for sale or re-tenanting are moving along and should be resolved in the coming months.  Read More »

The Ensign Group Announces Three SNF Purchases

The Ensign Group kicked off the fourth quarter with three separate acquisitions of skilled nursing facilities across the country. The largest deal featured the operations of six SNFs in Texas: four in Austin and two in San Antonio. Totaling 729 beds, the facilities will be operated by Ensign’s Texas-based subsidiary, Keystone Care LLC, under a long-term. triple-net lease. Next, Ensign acquired the operations of two skilled nursing facilities in South Carolina: the 132-bed Oak Harbor Healthcare in Mount Pleasant and the 190-bed Oak View Health and Rehabilitation in Conway. Hopewell Healthcare LLC, Ensign’s South Carolina-based subsidiary, will assume management of the facilities. Finally,... Read More »

Takeaways from Skilled Nursing: Is There A Market Disconnect?

On September 29th, 2022, Ben Swett, Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, spoke with two expert panelists on the skilled nursing M&A market, and why values continue to skyrocket. Mr. Swett was joined by ​​​​​Laca Wong-Hammond, Managing Director and Head of M&A at Lument, and Toby Siefert, Managing Director of Senior Living Investment Brokerage, to make sense of this market, the opportunities within it and the risks. Mr. Swett kicked off the webinar by asking the panelists if the average price per bed, which currently sits at $118,000 per bed, will continue to rise as it has during the previous four quarters. Ms. Wong-Hammond discussed how inflation has caused everything to increase in... Read More »
Skilled Nursing: Is There A Market Disconnect?

Skilled Nursing: Is There A Market Disconnect?

On September 29th, 2022, our Editor Ben Swett discussed the skilled nursing M&A market with a couple of industry experts that included Laca Wong-Hammond of Lument and Toby Siefert of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. The conversation ran over an hour and covered SNF values, the current buyer’s mindset, what sellers are thinking and how the deal process has changed in recent months. Read More »

Skilled Nursing Facility Sells in Indiana

A skilled nursing facility in Spencer, Indiana (Bloomington MSA) sold to a group of skilled nursing operators based in Indiana and the Midwest for an undisclosed price. The facility will be renamed Owen Valley Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center. Built in 2006, it has 113 beds, including a 31-bed memory care unit, sitting on 3.52 acres. Occupancy as of July 2022 was just below 70%. Kentucky-based Trilogy Healthcare Services was the seller. While the buyers have significant experience overseeing operations at similar-sized SNFs in rural and suburban communities around the Midwest, they hired Indiana-based Castle Healthcare to run the day-to-day operations of the facility. Read More »

CBRE Refinances Coastal California Community

California-based owner/operator Westmont and a group of individual investors refinanced their senior living community on the central California coast. Located near San Luis Obispo, The Oaks at Nipomo opened in 2017 with 97 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. Westmont has operated the community since its opening, and occupancy is currently above 95%, with improving operational metrics too. The CBRE National Senior Housing team of Aron Will and Adam Mincberg and the CBRE Multifamily team of Andrew Behrens and Jesse Weber arranged a $16.2 million loan through CBRE’s Freddie Mac Optigo lending platform. The fixed-rate loan came with a 10-year term and five years of... Read More »

Orange County AL Community Finds New Owner

Scott Frazier of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors helped an independent owner/operator exit the seniors housing business with the sale of their only asset in Orange County, California. Built in 1970 and renovated in 2008, the community comprises approximately 70 units of assisted living and memory care. The current owner bought the property from Wells Fargo Bank in January 2011 for around $70,000 per unit. Investing in more upgrades to the community in 2011, the owner kept resident monthly rates below market. Occupancy was historically near 100%, but during the pandemic, census had declined steadily due to continued lockdowns to ensure the safety of its residents. Mr. Frazier... Read More »