• 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 »

Senwell Handles Senior Care Portfolio Sale in Ohio

Senwell Senior Investment Advisors has closed the sale of a skilled nursing/assisted living facility portfolio in Ohio consisting of four sites. The Ohio-based owner decided to sell the portfolio with intention of leaving the senior care sector and shifting its focus on its growing ancillary business (mainly hospice). The facilities were cash flowing, but a recent Medicaid rate increase across all facilities and a jump in occupancy due to a local SNF closing presented additional upside for a new owner. As such, six attractive offers were submitted, and the eventual buyer, a regional operator with several recent acquisitions in the state, purchased the portfolio at above asking price. The... Read More »

The Waters of Highland Park Acquired

Cushman & Wakefield announced that it has advised a joint venture between The Waters Senior Living and an institutional capital partner in the procurement of a $16.5 million acquisition loan for the purchase of The Waters of Highland Park, an 84-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community located in the Highland Park neighborhood of St. Paul, Minnesota. Such amenities include a salon and spa, a theater and wellness services.  Waters Senior Living originally developed the community in 2015 and managed it but will now be taking ownership of the property. Cushman & Wakefield’s Rick Swartz, Jay Wagner, Sam Dylag and Bailey Nygard represented the borrower in the... Read More »

Monarch Advisors/VIUM Capital Refinances South Texas SNF

Monarch Advisors refinanced and recapitalized a skilled nursing facility in south Texas for its in-state owner/operator. After leasing the property in 2017, the operator exercised its purchase option in 2018 and continued to improve operating performance during the pandemic. Monarch sourced a $17.08 million senior loan from VIUM Capital/Merchants Bank of Indiana, which retired the existing bank debt on the property and provided cash at closing to help fund the client’s future growth plans. At approximately 60% loan-to-value, the loan is structured for a quick exit to HUD, with a one-year maturity, two six-month extensions and a full term of interest only. There is also partial recourse... Read More »

Lument Leads Stonerise Healthcare’s Sale

Lument Securities announced that it recently advised Stonerise Healthcare on its sale to a New York-based real estate investment firm and an operating partner, CommuniCare Health Services. Stonerise’s network of care included 17 owned and operated skilled nursing facilities throughout West Virginia totaling 1,955 beds, a therapy company, seven home health and hospice agencies, an institutional special needs plan and a SNF development project.  Lument had a decade-long HUD financing relationship with Stonerise (which was led by Thomas Gale), and Laca Wong-Hammond and Dominic Porretta led the transaction as its exclusive financial advisor. The skilled nursing portfolio and therapy company... Read More »

Jonathan Rose Co. Buys Seniors Housing Complex

Jonathan Rose Co. and Jamboree Housing have acquired Belage Manor, a 180-unit affordable senior housing complex in Anaheim, California for the purchase price of $41 million, or $227,000 per unit. This marks the 12th deal to close under the Rose Affordable Housing Preservation Fund V. California-based nonprofit Jamboree Housing along with the fund will invest $9 million in renovations to make significant improvements to the complex. Capital One Healthcare provided a $28 million Fannie Mae first mortgage loan as part of the GSE’s Enhanced Resident Services program.  Read More »

Omni Smart Living Refinances Two Communities Through JLL

JLL Capital Markets arranged short-term financing for two newly built communities totaling 328 units in North Olmsted and North Royalton, Ohio. The two high-quality communities comprise independent living, assisted living and memory care units. The borrower is real estate investment group Omni Smart Living, for which JLL secured a three-year, floating-rate loan through a national debt fund. The first property is the 160-unit Vitalia North Olmsted, and the other is the 168-unit Vitalia North Royalton, both located roughly 10 to 15 minutes outside of downtown Cleveland. Joel Mendes and Billy Lichtenstein of JLL Capital Markets represented the borrower in the transaction. Read More »

BMO Harris Bank Closes Big Refinance for Phoenix CCRC

BMO Harris Bank’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group closed on a whopping $145 million term facility with two participating banks to recapitalize Sagewood, an entrance-fee CCRC in Phoenix, Arizona. Westminster Capital and LCS own the property, with LCS serving as operator since its opening in 2010. The community has been expanded over the years, most recently with a $100 million, 101-unit independent living project in 2021, and now features 417 IL units, 44 assisted living units, 28 memory care units and 78 skilled nursing beds. The existing IL units were fully occupied prior to the project, and 96% of the new units were pre-sold by the end of 2018.  At that time, LCS and... Read More »

ESI Handles New Jersey SNF Sale

Evans Senior Investments has handled the sale of a struggling skilled nursing facility in Clark Township, New Jersey. Built in 1995 with more than 130 beds, the facility saw pre-pandemic occupancy levels of 85% plummet to 56% by the time of sale. The seller is a regional owner/operator, which sought to exit this facility given the distance from its existing portfolio. Evans Senior Investments, which closed another SNF sale for the regional owner/operator in July in Volusia County, Florida, found an East Coast-based owner/operator within 25 days of starting the marketing process to purchase this asset, adding to its established portfolio. According to LevinPro LTC, Evans Seniors Investments... Read More »

Investor Group Acquires Georgia Communities

A group of individual investors acquired two assisted living/memory care communities in Georgia from a local owner/operator looking to exit the industry. The purchase price was not disclosed, but the communities sold for a cap rate in the mid-8s, slightly higher than the sector’s average in the last few years. Daniel Geraghty and Brad Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the transaction. Built in 2007, Sunny Grove Assisted Living in Barnesville features 34 units and was around 97% occupied. River Place Assisted Living in Forsyth was built more recently in 2017 and features 35 units with 93% occupancy. There is an expansion opportunity at the Barnesville location, which... Read More »

RAM Properties Acquires Florida Portfolio

A private institutional group sold three seniors housing communities in Florida to RAM Properties, a boutique private equity firm backed by a family office. RAM paid $70.85 million, or $158,000 per unit, for the portfolio and brought in its Florida-based operating partner Concordis Senior Living to take over management.  The properties included 253 independent/assisted living units (all licensed for assisted living) and 193 memory care units, averaging more than 20 years in age but with multiple renovations over the years. When the portfolio went under LOI, occupancy was in the 80s, but that improved throughout the process into the 90s at closing. In addition, previous resident rent... Read More »

Struggling Florida SNF Sells

Evans Senior Investments has handled the sale of a large 200+ bed skilled nursing facility in Volusia County, Florida. Built in the 1960s, the facility features semiprivate rooms and three-bed wards. Occupancy rates averaged 73% before the pandemic. However, at the time of the sale, the facility was losing money while occupancy dipped to 41%. The seller was a regional owner/operator who was looking to get rid of the struggling geographic outlier from its portfolio. An East Coast owner/operator, adding to their skilled nursing facility portfolio, ended up as the buyer.  Read More »