• 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... Read More »
Helios Healthcare Advisors Arranges Two Transactions

Helios Healthcare Advisors Arranges Two Transactions

Helios Healthcare Advisors started 2022 by announcing a couple of transactions in the southern United States. First, Helios procured a Dallas-based owner/operator to operate an assisted living community in northern Texas. The prior operator was located out of state and experienced logistical difficulties operating this community. So, Helios arranged the third-party management transition on behalf of the owner, an investment firm based in San Francisco, California.  Next, Helios arranged the sale of an 82-bed skilled nursing facility on behalf of Tri-State Health Services in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. A new regional owner/operator was selected to take over the real estate and... Read More »
CBRE Refinances Community in Oregon

CBRE Refinances Community in Oregon

Harrison Street and The Springs Living recently refinanced its jointly owned seniors housing community in Lake Oswego, Oregon (Portland MSA), with the help of Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Tim Root of CBRE National Senior Housing. CBRE had also arranged the original construction loan for the community in 2017, so the team was clearly familiar with it. They secured a non-recourse, four-year loan, with a floating rate and three years of interest only, through a national bank. Opened in 2019 with 216 independent living, assisted living and memory care units, the community also features amenities like a rooftop deck with covered dining and a wine bar, an indoor heated swimming pool and hot tube,... Read More »
X-Caliber Arranges Financing for SNF Portfolio in New England

X-Caliber Arranges Financing for SNF Portfolio in New England

A portfolio of 10 skilled nursing facilities in Massachusetts and Connecticut has been sold to an experienced and highly regarded owner/operator with financing in hand from X-Caliber Capital. The $100 million loan comes to about $70,000 per bed in debt, placing the purchase price somewhere above that. Built in the 1980s and 1990s and totaling 1,416 skilled nursing beds, the properties are cash flowing and have occupancy around 85%. The purchase price and other details are undisclosed. Read More »
60 Seconds with Ben Swett: Occupancy Growth Slows in Q4

60 Seconds with Ben Swett: Occupancy Growth Slows in Q4

We are starting to get glimpses of seniors housing occupancy growth in the fourth quarter of 2021, and the only good news so far is that there at least haven’t been losses in average census. First, NIC announced that seniors housing occupancy rose to 81.0% in Q4, a 100-basis point increase from Q3’s average and 230 basis points higher than the pandemic low from Q2. Not great, considering the low basis the sector is coming from. Then, Welltower came out with its business update and its US SHOP portfolio gained 80 basis points in occupancy in Q4, but there was no gain in December. From its pandemic low in February 2021, Welltower has been able to improve US SHOP occupancy by 670 basis... Read More »
New Seniors Housing Brokerage Firm Announces First Closing

New Seniors Housing Brokerage Firm Announces First Closing

A new senior living brokerage firm posted its first closing at the end of December, with several more on the way in the next couple of quarters. Andrew Montgomery is Co-Founder & Vice President of Montgomery Intermediary Group (MIG), part of a group of businesses run by the Montgomery family that include Americare Senior Living, Montgomery Bank and Montgomery Development, LP. With expertise in the Midwest, Southwest, and Southeast, particularly in the Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi markets, Andrew and MIG know about operations and investing in the industry. And now, they have their first closing under their belt.  The target was a 55-unit seniors housing... Read More »
Blueprint Advises SNF Portfolio Sale in Ohio

Blueprint Advises SNF Portfolio Sale in Ohio

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors’ Connor Doherty, Ryan Kelly and Christopher Hyldahl represented the seller of a five-facility skilled nursing portfolio. Located in northwest Ohio with one facility located southeast of Columbus, the facilities were constructed throughout the 1980s and 1990s. The private equity seller chose to strategically exit the facilities after purchasing them as part of a larger portfolio transaction in 2017. Their operating partner will also be exiting the portfolio. The facilities have struggled with occupancy recently but were ultimately purchased by an Ohio-based regional owner/operator looking to capitalize on the previously announced Ohio Medicaid rate... Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield Arranges Recap in Arizona

Cushman & Wakefield Arranges Recap in Arizona

Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the recapitalization of Acoya Mesa, a seniors housing community in the Mesa suburb of Phoenix, Arizona. Developed in 2019 by Ryan Companies and Cadence Living, ACOYA Mesa is a 170-unit independent living, assisted living, and memory care community. Despite divesting the community, Ryan and Cadence Living will continue operating it.  The property, which was sold by EverWest Real Estate Investors, was acquired by a global real estate investment manager for $46.25 million, or $272,100 per unit. Cushman & Wakefield’s Rick Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig, Dan Baker and Jack Griffin represented the seller and procured the buyer. The team also... Read More »
Helios Healthcare Advisors Arranges Two Transactions

H2C Advises Joint Venture in Illinois

At the end of 2021, H2C represented the joint venture of Randall Residence and CREC to sell a 107-unit senior living community in Decatur, Illinois. Built in 1999 and 2001, the community consists of two buildings, a two-story, 50-unit independent living building and a single-story, 57-unit assisted living/memory care community, that were 98% occupied at the time of sale. The existing operator, Randall Residence, acquired the community for $15.5 million, or $144,900 per unit, at a 6.25% cap rate.  The community last sold in March 2017 for $11.155 million, or $101,400 per unit, at a 7.5% cap rate. At the time, occupancy was 72%, so, it looks like operations have been improved in the... Read More »
Tryko Grows Garden State Portfolio

Tryko Grows Garden State Portfolio

Tryko Partners added to its New Jersey portfolio with the acquisition of one skilled nursing facility and one assisted living/memory care community in Little Egg Harbor on the Jersey Shore. Owned and operated by a husband-and-wife team for more than 30 years, the properties will receive immediate capital improvements under the new ownership. Built in 1985, Seacrest Village is a 171-bed, three-story skilled nursing facility that carries a five-star designation with CMS. It will be renamed The Terraces at Seacrest Village. The Terraces, built in 2013, is a two-story assisted living/memory care community with 88 units. Tryko’s affiliate Marquis Health Consulting Services will take over... Read More »
Blueprint Facilitates AL Sale in Florida

Blueprint Facilitates AL Sale in Florida

Ben Firestone, Lauren Nagel and Michael Segal at Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors recently facilitated the sale of a Jupiter, Florida-based senior living community. Built in 2001, Village of Tequesta, Tequesta Terrace is a 100-unit assisted living/memory care community. It was previously owned by a New England-based owner/operator with a single community in Florida. They chose to strategically exit the state in order to focus on its New England operations. Over the next nine months, Alta Senior Living, the acquirer of the property, will invest another $2.5 million in capex to enhance the community. No purchase price was disclosed.  Read More »
Helios Healthcare Advisors Arranges Two Transactions

CIBC Arranges Financings for Several SNF Purchases

One side to the surge in M&A activity in the last couple of weeks is the financing side of it, and CIBC Bank USA announced a couple of acquisition loans for skilled nursing purchases. CIBC’s Adam Panos first closed a $91 million loan with a three-year term for Summit Healthcare REIT’s acquisition of eight skilled nursing facilities totaling 826 beds. The purchase price came to $130 million, or $157,000 per bed, and brings the private REIT’s total 2021 investment in skilled nursing M&A to $150 million. Summit is leasing the facilities back to a local operator on a triple-net basis. CIBC served as the sole senior lender, and Oxford Finance also worked on financing the deal.   Next,... Read More »