• LTC Properties Buys into SHOP Growth

    LTC Properties released its 2025 fourth quarter results and 2026 guidance, and in it reiterated its shift toward its newly established SHOP segment. During the second quarter of the year, the company established the segment, marking its shift in focus from the skilled nursing sector. Later in Q2, it terminated its Anthem Memory Care triple-net... Read More »
  • Portland IL/AL Community Finds New Purpose in Multi-Family

    Calaroga Terrace has traded hands, from a national owner/operator to a regional developer. The community sits is north of the Oregon Convention Center, in downtown Portland, Oregon. Built in 1968 and renovated in 2016, the 15-story high rise is situated on just under one acre and features 181 independent living and 84 assisted living units. The... Read More »
  • New England SNFs Struggling to Breakeven Sell

    Blueprint represented a private equity investor in its divestment of a 302-bed skilled nursing portfolio in New England. The facilities had challenged occupancies, however, they generated approximately $27 million in revenue. Inflated operating costs took its toll on EBITDAR, with the asset struggling to breakeven. Dubbed Project Red Coats, the... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Portfolio Secures Refinance

    Berkadia announced the refinancing of a nine-property assisted living portfolio spanning Ohio and Pennsylvania. Steve Muth, Garrett Sacco, Austin Sacco and Alec Rosenfeld arranged the $114.37 million financing through Bloomfield Capital Partners, LLC on behalf of the borrower, a joint venture with an experienced owner and New Perspective Senior... Read More »
  • Lument Rolls Out Seniors Housing Investment Sales Platform

    Alex Florea and Kevin Lukehart have joined the Lument team as managing director and director, respectively. This expands Lument’s real estate investment sales platform into seniors housing. Florea will lead the team, working closely with John Sebree, head of real estate investment sales, and Aaron Becker, head of seniors housing and healthcare... Read More »
Private Equity Firm Acquires Its Fourth Seniors Property

Private Equity Firm Acquires Its Fourth Seniors Property

A private equity firm based in La Jolla, California, just purchased their fourth seniors housing property. Bakerson Companies bought Truewood by Merrill, Clovis, a 115-unit assisted living/memory care community in Clovis, an affluent suburb of Fresno, California. The property was an older vintage but showed well. Bakerson will bring in a new operating partner, Calson Management, to operate it going forward under a new name: Saddle Ridge Senior Living, which honors the city’s celebrated Clovis Rodeo and its deep-rooted western heritage. The firm paid all cash for the property, at an attractive per-unit value. Scott Frazier and Brooks Blackmon of Blueprint handled the deal. In a story... Read More »
Hotel Developer Divests Non-Stabilized, Class-A Asset to Sonida Senior Living

Hotel Developer Divests Non-Stabilized, Class-A Asset to Sonida Senior Living

Austin Diamond and Nick Stahler of The Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap announced their role representing the seller of a 98-unit assisted living/memory care community in Mansfield, Texas (Dallas-Fort Worth area). Sonida Senior Living was the buyer, paying $15.55 million, or $159,200 per unit, which was funded with cash on hand and proceeds from its senior secured revolving credit facility. The Knapp-Stahler Group navigated a challenging renegotiation at the expiration of due diligence, ensuring a favorable outcome and smooth closing for all parties. That is an attractive price, from Sonida’s perspective, for a 2016-vintage, recently-renovated, Class-A property, which Sonida... Read More »
Stabilized Seniors Housing Community Trades Hands 

Stabilized Seniors Housing Community Trades Hands 

Blueprint handled the sale of an 80-unit assisted living and memory care community in the Syracuse, New York MSA. At the time of marketing, it was generating strong cash flow and had recently benefited from significant renovations, positioning it as stabilized. Connor Doherty, Ryan Kelly, Jacob Gehl and Dillon Rudy handled the transaction. A diverse buyer pool was targeted, including local, regional and national groups. The process generated three competitive offers, ultimately resulting in the selection of a regional owner with an existing footprint. The buyer will retain the incumbent operator. Read More »
Wyoming SNF in UPL Program Refinances

Wyoming SNF in UPL Program Refinances

KC Peterson of PM Advisors secured a HUD refinance of a 60-bed skilled nursing facility in Evanston, Wyoming. The refinance, which totaled just under $4 million, was completed through Bedford Lending, a direct HUD lender. Prior to entering the 232 program, the facility had completed necessary capital improvements including adding a large multiday generator.  PM Advisors refinanced the entirety of the existing loans and capital improvement debts. The project is the first and only UPL project in Wyoming, with North Big Horn Hospital District as the sublessee operator. HUD has previously approved this legal structure with Indiana, Utah and Texas (with its QIPP program) hospital operators on... Read More »
CareTrust REIT’s CFO/Treasurer Plans to Retire

CareTrust REIT’s CFO/Treasurer Plans to Retire

CareTrust REIT announced that William M. Wagner, the company’s Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, plans to retire in early 2026. Wagner has been with the REIT since its inception in 2014, following its spin-off from The Ensign Group. Derek Bunker, who currently serves as CareTrust’s Senior Vice President of Strategy and Investor Relations, is expected to succeed Wagner as CFO effective January 1, 2026. Bunker has more than a decade of healthcare leadership experience, including as Vice President of Acquisitions and Business Legal Affairs at The Ensign Group, and more recently as Chief Investment Officer and Executive Vice President at The Pennant Group, another Ensign spin-off. ... Read More »
Ownership Group Exits Kentucky with Sale to NY-Based Owner/Operator

Ownership Group Exits Kentucky with Sale to NY-Based Owner/Operator

Blueprint was engaged in early 2025 by a long-tenured ownership group in the sale of its high-performing skilled nursing and memory care property in Kentucky. The seller is well established with deep roots in the Commonwealth, with this sale marking its final healthcare asset in Kentucky after a 40-year history of operating there. Built in 1949, Wellington Parc of Owensboro holds a four-star CMS rating and comprises 80 beds. Like others in the state, it benefited from Kentucky’s favorable Medicaid reimbursement environment, with strong current per diem rates and scheduled 2025 inflationary increases, as well as additional CMI expansion potential. The marketing process was highly targeted... Read More »
HUD Announces Loan Sale

HUD Announces Loan Sale

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced Healthcare Loan Sale 2026-1 (HLS 2026-1). On October 22, 2025, HUD will offer eight (8) Secretary-held, non-performing commercial mortgage loans for sale. The portfolio consists of Section 232 vacant healthcare loans with a combined unpaid principal balance of approximately $58 million. Each loan is secured by a first-lien mortgage on healthcare facilities located across Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Missouri and Minnesota. HUD reserves the right to add or remove loans from the sale at its discretion. For further details regarding the healthcare loans offered in the HLS 2026-1 auction, please visit... Read More »

Ignite Medical Resort Crown Point LLC Profiled in M&A Activity in LevinPro Database

Ignite Medical Resort Crown Point LLC has been linked to a merger or acquisition in the LevinPro M&A deal database. The Medicare-licensed facility is a private skilled nursing facility situated at 1555 S Main St in Crown Point, Indiana. LevinPro, which tracks M&A activity across more than a dozen healthcare sectors from hospitals and home health to medical real estate and biopharma, profiled the transaction involving Ignite Medical Resort Crown Point LLC in its deal database, which is available to subscribers here. LevinPro has tracked thousands of deals in the skilled nursing facility sector throughout its history. To see the underlying deal data, or for information on... Read More »
60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: The Future of Seniors Housing

60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: The Future of Seniors Housing

Five years ago, at the onset of the COVID pandemic, I wrote a long white paper on the future of seniors housing based on what was happening in the Spring of 2020. The future was questionable. Now, five years later, it seems as if nothing has changed, and everything has changed. I had to miss my first Fall NIC in 35 years, but I heard there was a lot of talk about the future and what may happen, and that the “feel” today was much like the post-recession years of 2013 to 2017. Everything looking up, values rising, investors jumping in, sentiment at a recent peak, lenders very competitive, and so on. The only thing missing today compared with back then is the lack of new development. So,... Read More »
Operationally-Challenged CCRC Transitions to Lease Option

Operationally-Challenged CCRC Transitions to Lease Option

Blueprint was engaged to market a 225-unit CCRC in St. Louis, Missouri, that was experiencing operational challenges. The seller, a large owner/operator, was looking to address immediate performance issues and position the asset for long-term stability and value. So, the deal was marketed either as an outright sale or a lease with a purchase option.  Following a competitive process, the selected transaction structure was a lease with a purchase option. The incoming operator, a regional owner/operator, brings local market knowledge with an established footprint in Missouri as well as Illinois. Connor Doherty and Ryan Kelly handled the transaction. Read More »
Senior Care Portfolio Secures Bridge Loan

Senior Care Portfolio Secures Bridge Loan

Capital Funding Group closed a $121.5 million bridge loan. The deal supports the refinancing of twelve skilled nursing and assisted living properties, with ten in Texas and two in Maryland, featuring a total of 1,625 beds. Tim Eberhardt, Craig Casagrande and Catherine Mansel originated the transaction, which closed in September. This follows CFG’s announcement that highlighted the closing of six deals for over $86 million in financing on behalf of nationally recognized borrowers. The deals supported financing for two memory care communities, four skilled nursing facilities and one psychiatric hospital throughout Missouri, California, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. CFG closed the... Read More »