• 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 »

60 Seconds with Steve Monroe & Ben Swett: See Y’all in Houston

A lot has changed since we were last elbow bumping with people at the San Diego NIC conference in March 2020. There have been some other in-person conferences in the last few months, but next week’s NIC will be really the first time that the senior care industry is reunited since the pandemic. And we are looking forward to seeing everyone once again. When we’re in Houston, we’d love to hear about your experiences, the difficulties and your successes in the last year and a half whether as an operator, investor, lender or broker. And of course, about any deals you are currently working on. But we are also going to be asking for your predictions in 2022. Be forewarned. We also have our own... Read More »
Ziegler Refinances Two AL Communities

Ziegler Refinances Two AL Communities

Columbia Pacific Advisors refinanced two of its seniors housing communities, enlisting Ziegler as its exclusive financial advisor to close the transactions. The communities in question are The Landing at Lake Worth in Lake Worth, Florida, and The Linden at Stonehaven Square in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Each 134-unit community offers assisted living and memory care services. Chicago Pacific Advisors developed the Florida property in late 2018 and the Oklahoma property in late 2017 as part of its strategy to expand into the southern United States. To refinance existing the construction loans, Ziegler’s Senior Housing & Care Finance Practice closed two bridge debt placements totaling $37.75... Read More »
Blueprint Closes Two More Deals

Blueprint Closes Two More Deals

What a week it was for Blake Bozett of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors. In the same week that he closed an assisted living community sale in Nampa, Idaho, he and his wife welcomed their first child! We know the latter announcement is probably more important to him, but we’ll focus on the former here. Mr. Bozett facilitated the sale of Streamside Assisted Living and Memory Care, a 79-unit assisted living and memory care community located outside of Boise. Built in 2006, Streamside saw a healthy operating margin around 30% and stable occupancy in the 80s, even during the pandemic. The local sellers have been in the industry for over 20 years but are selling in order to focus on... Read More »
Welltower & Kisco Senior Living Break Ground in Maryland

Welltower & Kisco Senior Living Break Ground in Maryland

Welltower and Kisco Senior Living announced the groundbreaking of their large senior living community in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Set to open in Spring 2024, The Carnegie at Washingtonian Center will feature 450,000 square feet and 302 total units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. It will sit on 8.5 acres next to RIO Lakefront at Washingtonian Center, a waterfront shopping center with restaurants, amenities and water activities in downtown Gaithersburg. At the community, floorplan options will range in size from one bedroom, one bath (837 square feet) to two bedrooms, two baths with a den (1,487 square feet) and a club level living option that includes concierge and... Read More »
Monarch Alternative Capital & American House Joint Venture

Monarch Alternative Capital & American House Joint Venture

Investment firm Monarch Alternative Capital and national operator American House Senior Living Communities are joint venturing to pursue the acquisition, development and management of seniors housing communities across the United States. The two entities kicked off the venture with the recapitalization of seven properties that were partially owned by American House, with one of the properties acquired through a third party. The seven communities total 1,047 units throughout Florida, Michigan and Ohio, comprising 525 independent living, 356 assisted living and 166 memory care units. They average about five years in age and feature a number of updated residential amenities. With their... Read More »
Monarch Alternative Capital & American House Joint Venture

Shareholders Approve Capital Senior Living Restructuring

Last Friday, Capital Senior Living announced that shareholders approved the amended agreement with Conversant Capital to provide needed funds to stabilize the company while it continues to work on increasing census, as well as funds for future growth. This involves plans to raise up to $154.8 million in various financings. This was based on preliminary vote estimates taken after the shareholder vote on Friday.  The news of the presumed approval, without giving the breakdown of the voting, sent the shares up by 2.38% to close at $29.68. That is a far cry from where they traded last July. The day before they hit a low of $25.85 during the day, which was the lowest price since August 13. Keep... Read More »
Blueprint Closes Two More Deals

SLIB Facilitates Sale of Texas SNF Portfolio

Senior Living Investment Brokerage’s Matthew Alley facilitated the sale of three skilled nursing facilities in Henrietta, Olney and Nocona, Texas. The combined facilities, totaling 250 beds, sold for $7.75 million, or $31,000 per bed.  The properties, which have an average occupancy of 50%, are within 90 miles of each other northwest of Fort Worth. The seller is an independent owner/operator who is exiting the industry, and the buyer is an out-of-state owner/operator that is purchasing its first nursing home. The facilities earned revenues totaling $9.87 million and EBITDA over $500,000 in 2020. These communities are also enrolled in QIPP, which provides additional revenues not... Read More »
Toll Brothers Proposes Active Adult Development in New York

Toll Brothers Proposes Active Adult Development in New York

Homebuilder giant Toll Brothers has proposed the development of a 136-unit active adult community in Yorktown, New York.  The development would be built on two properties sitting on approximately 50 acres. It would contain three- and four-unit buildings, a community clubhouse and a pool. The townhouses would include a master bedroom suite, an entertaining space and two-car garages. The community would have a homeowners association and would be sold at market rate. Toll Brothers is currently focusing on speaking with the Yorktown Town Board before committing to the project, as the community would sit on the former property of Field Home Holy Comforter, an assisted living... Read More »
Carnegie Capital Arranges Acquisition Loan For Texas SNF

Carnegie Capital Arranges Acquisition Loan For Texas SNF

Carnegie Capital’s joint venture with Evans Senior Investments has produced an acquisition financing for a 258-bed skilled nursing portfolio in north-central Texas.  Each facility is between 50 and 55 years old, under 25,000 square feet and averages an occupancy rate of 51%. The entire portfolio is enrolled in the QIPP program.  Carnegie secured $6.55 million for three facilities, which had a $7.7 million price tag, or $30,000 per bed. The financing has a two-and-a-half-year term with an interest-only rate in the 7s. Evans Senior Investments did not broker the sale but did have the relationship with the sponsor. Read More »
BMO Harris Provides Loan For 15 MOBs

BMO Harris Provides Loan For 15 MOBs

BMO Harris Bank’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group has closed a $123 million loan to an affiliate of The Inland Real Estate Group of Companies, Inc. The loan provided recapitalization financing for 15 medical office buildings, totaling more than 419,000 square feet across six states.  Read More »
Blueprint Closes Two More Deals

Private Equity Buyers Snap Up Southeast Portfolio

JLL Capital Markets’ Mike Garbers and Cody Temper recently arranged the sale of nine seniors housing communities on behalf of the seller, a large public REIT. The portfolio consists of one North Carolina and eight South Carolina properties, encompassing 558 assisted living and memory care units.  The first sale, in North Carolina, involves a 52-unit assisted living and memory care community that was sold to a private equity group. The property has been closed and vacant since April due to a fire, but extensive remodeling and repairs are foreseeable so the community can undergo rebranding upon reopening. The second transaction, in South Carolina, consists of 506 units across eight... Read More »