• 60 Seconds with Swett: The Republican Budget and Medicaid Cuts

    There will be significant political interest in what happens to Medicaid funding as Republicans work to pass a budget and tax bill with their very slim majority. Touching entitlements remains politically risky, and the party is divided on whether any Medicaid cuts would be acceptable heading into an election cycle. At this stage, per-capita caps... Read More »
  • Sonida Senior Living Continues Upward Trend

    We are at the end of the first quarter 2025 earning roll call, and Sonida Senior Living posted another solid quarter. Weighted average occupancy for its same-community portfolio (56 communities) increased by 100 basis points year over year to 86.8%, which is at the top end of many of its competitors. In addition, same-community RevPOR increased... Read More »
  • Regional Owner/Operator Purchases Turnaround SNF

    Evans Senior Investments was engaged by a regional owner in a partnership with the University of Michigan Health-West Hospital to facilitate the sale of a skilled nursing facility in Wyoming, Michigan. Opened nearly 10 years ago, Healthbridge Post Acute comprises 65 beds and was experiencing operational challenges, including an annual net... Read More »
  • Family Owner Divests CCRC to Not-For-Profit

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors sold a family-owned/operated CCRC in Maumee, Ohio, to a not-for-profit organization. The community had been in the seller’s family for 75 years, but they are divesting to enter retirement. Established in 1949, Elizabeth Scott Community spans 51 acres and offers independent living, assisted living, memory care... Read More »
  • HUD-Backed Seniors Housing Community Opens on Long Island

    A HUD-financed seniors housing project has celebrated its grand opening in Bay Shore, New York. Netherbay at Bay Shore is a state-of-the-art assisted living/memory care community located at the historic Gulden family’s summer homestead on Long Island. It features 72 units and is operated by Meridian Senior Living. Greystone’s Lisa Fischman had... Read More »
Newmark Closes Out 2019 With A Bang

Newmark Closes Out 2019 With A Bang

We told you that the folks at Newmark Knight Frank were going to have a big year end, and in the days just before Christmas they closed four transactions worth about $550 million in total. Not a bad way to end the year, and we hope they are all off on vacation until January 5. In the largest transaction, Ryan Maconachy and Chad Lavender sold a portfolio of three Discovery Senior Living-operated assets on behalf of Kayne Anderson. The three communities with 483 units are located in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Delaware and average about 45% independent living, 34% assisted living and 21% memory care units. Overall occupancy is a solid 94%. The buyer was Partners Group, an international... Read More »
Blueprint Handles Two More REIT Sales

Blueprint Handles Two More REIT Sales

The closings keep coming from Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors, as the firm has announced a series of acquisitions in the last couple weeks of the year, mainly for publicly-traded REIT clients. Ben Firestone, Michael Segal, Alex Florea and Scott Frazier first teamed up to sell an assisted living/memory care community in Escondido, California (an affluent suburb of San Diego). Previously owned by an LLC affiliated with Ventas, the community was originally built in 1986 and expanded with a new independent living building in 2006. Initially, the community offered a full spectrum of care from independent living to skilled nursing. However, the new IL building was converted to... Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending December 27, 2019

Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending December 27, 2019

Check out our recent senior care M&A deals! Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice East Coast-based REITThe Abbington Senior Living Portfolio$49 million Pacifica Companies LLCThe Woodmark at Sun City$7.25 million Family-owned operator2 assisted living communities$945,000 Local buyerLas Villas Del Norte$91... Read More »
Blueprint Announces Two Assisted Living Deals

Blueprint Announces Two Assisted Living Deals

The year may be wrapping up, but Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has not been slowing down, announcing a couple of acquisitions during Christmas week. Ben Firestone, Michael Segal and Alex Florea first teamed up to sell two assisted living communities in the Midwest on behalf of a publicly-traded REIT and its national operator partner. Located near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Wichita, Kansas, the communities combine for 52 units and 16,000 total square feet. They were built in 1993/94, with renovations completed in 2016. Thanks in part to strong reputations in their local markets, operations were solid as well, with occupancy over 90%, a primarily private pay census and steady... Read More »
REIT Buys Utah Senior Living Portfolio

REIT Buys Utah Senior Living Portfolio

Evans Senior Investments sold a portfolio of three new assisted living/memory care communities in the Salt Lake City, Utah metro area known as The Abbington Senior Living Portfolio. Totaling 229 units, split between 174 assisted living and 55 memory care, these communities were developed in the last five years, but two of the properties were still in the final stages of lease-up at the time of the sale. Occupancy averaged 85%, with a 93% private pay census, and the portfolio generated a 28% EBITDAR margin in the trailing 12 months. One community was subject to a long-term land lease. A real estate private equity company sold the portfolio to an East Coast-based REIT stepped in to purchase... Read More »
Chicago Pacific Founders Acquires Again

Chicago Pacific Founders Acquires Again

Chicago Pacific Founders appears to be wrapping up 2019 with its sixth acquisition of the year, and eighth added property. The target was a 113-unit assisted living/memory care community in Naples, Florida, located just three miles from the city’s Fifth Avenue District and near shopping centers, medical facilities and entertainment venues. It was previously owned by Prevarian Senior Living and operated by Visiting Nursing Management Company. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but CPF will invest in improvements at the property and will have Grace Management take over as operator. Chicago Pacific’s previous acquisitions this year included two in Arizona, two in Texas and a three-property... Read More »
NorthMarq Finances New York Community

NorthMarq Finances New York Community

The owner of a seniors housing community in Mount Vernon, New York (Westchester County) just refinanced and cashed out of the property with the help of NorthMarq. Built in 2005, the 20-unit community was fully occupied. Robert Ranieri, senior vice president and managing director of NorthMarq’s White Plains office arranged an $800,000 loan through The Westchester Bank that allowed the borrower to realize his long-term equity in the property. The loan came with a seven-year term and 30-year amortization schedule. Read More »
Blueprint Closes Three Transactions

Blueprint Closes Three Transactions

Some senior care investors have been doing some last-minute Christmas shopping, with Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announcing several sales. First, the team of Jacob Gehl, Humair Sabir and Scott Frazier represented an owner/operator looking to retire with the sale of their 35-unit (70-bed) assisted living community in Mission Valley, California (San Diego MSA). Blueprint was tasked with confidentially marketing the community and closing its sale within the calendar year. The property’s attractive location resulted in several competitive offers, but Bayshire Senior Living, a growing regional owner/operator with three other communities in the San Diego market, was ultimately... Read More »
CBRE Originates Second Fannie Mae Financing for NC Community

CBRE Originates Second Fannie Mae Financing for NC Community

The CBRE team of Aron Will, Austin Sacco and Tim Root arranged a refinance of a 100-unit independent living community in Durham, North Carolina, just two years after financing the property’s acquisition. Originally built as a hotel in 1985 but renovated and converted to IL in 2013, the community was purchased by Focus Healthcare Partners in October 2017 for $15.8 million, or around $160,000 per unit. At the time, it was fully occupied and operated at close to a 30% margin on over $3.1 million of revenues. The deal resulted in a cap rate of about 6.3%. Amenities include an interior courtyard with an in-ground pool, bocce court, putting green, theater, library, coffee/juice bar and community... Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending December 20, 2019

Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending December 20, 2019

Check out our recent senior care M&A deals! Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice LCS/NuveenSolana at DoylestownN/A Bayshire Senior LivingCloisters of the Valley$7.25 million Apple Avenue Healthcare LLCBrookhaven Medical Care Facility$945,000 Chartwell Retirement ResidencesChartwell Emerald Hills Retirement Residence$91... Read More »
Formation Development Group Sells Pennsylvania Community

Formation Development Group Sells Pennsylvania Community

Newmark Knight Frank’s Ryan Maconachy and Chad Lavender represented Atlanta-based Formation Development Group in the sale of its new 98-unit seniors housing community in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, an affluent Philadelphia suburb. Operated under the Solana brand by Atria Senior Living, the community opened in 2016 at the tail-end of when many of the Solana properties were built. It features 70 personal care (assisted living) and 28 memory care units, which were 96% occupied at the time of the sale. A joint venture between LCS Senior Living and Nuveen emerged as the buyer, although no purchase price was disclosed. Newmark’s Sarah Anderson and Brittany Robinson secured financing on behalf of... Read More »