• 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 »
Healthpeak Expands Oakmont Relationship

Healthpeak Expands Oakmont Relationship

Healthpeak is yet again expanding its relationship with Oakmont Senior Living, after already making a couple of acquisitions with the operator earlier this year. The two companies entered into an agreement that provides Healthpeak the option to acquire up to 24 of Oakmont’s seniors housing development pipeline, when Oakmont decides to sell. Concentrated in California, the communities will have a projected aggregate value of approximately $1.3 billion. They will be offered for sale in tranches from 2020 to 2023, including about $200 million in expected sales in the first half of 2020. Once offered, the REIT will have the option to acquire each applicable tranche based on a pre-determined... Read More »
Senwell Senior Investment Advisors Sells Kentucky SNF

Senwell Senior Investment Advisors Sells Kentucky SNF

Ben Bohland and Brandon Bohland of Senwell Senior Investment Advisors announced the successful sale of a 73-bed skilled nursing facility in the Purchase Region of Graves County, Kentucky (the notch in the southwest part of the state). The facility’s seller was looking to exit in order to focus on their core assets, and to do so confidentially. So, in an off-market sale, Senwell found an exclusive buyer who has been expanding in the region to quickly and quietly close the transaction. The new owner plans to use that scale to reduce expenses. Read More »
Confluent Senior Living Sells, and Grows

Confluent Senior Living Sells, and Grows

Confluent Senior Living announced the sale of three of its senior living communities in Iowa, Oregon and New Mexico, hiring CBRE to close the deal. All three communities were, and will continue to be, operated by MorningStar Senior Living. The West Des Moines, Iowa property opened in March 2018 with 85 assisted living and memory care units, and the Beaverton, Oregon (Portland MSA) property opened later that year in November with 104 AL and MC units. In January 2019, the Santa Fe, New Mexico community was completed with 85 AL/MC units. All three were still in lease-up, but with no change in operator, that should continue unabated. Just last month, Confluent also sold its 66-unit assisted... Read More »
HJ Sims Secures Bond Financing for Tennessee CCRC

HJ Sims Secures Bond Financing for Tennessee CCRC

A new life plan community (or continuing care retirement community, as we still call them) is going up in Collierville, Tennessee (Memphis MSA) thanks to a large $219.25 million bond placement arranged by HJ Sims. Situated on 36 acres with 176 independent living apartments, 63 independent living garden homes, 52 assisted living units, 32 memory support units and 60 skilled nursing units, the community will also feature an impressive array of amenities. For dining, there will be five venues, an outdoor kitchen, a pub and sports bar. There will also be an athletic club, massage therapy, Jacuzzi, day spa, beauty shop, barber shop, performing arts center, movie theater, library, bank, gift... Read More »
Is Ageism Dead?

Is Ageism Dead?

Young people flock to see septuagenarians perform because they are rock stars. But aren’t all 70-somethings rock stars in some one’s mind? Asking if Ageism is dead might seem like a funny question. We see ageism every day. But last week I was fortunate enough to go to a sold-out Billy Joel concert at Madison Square Garden. I was expecting to see an average age close to 60, since most of Billy Joel’s hits were from the 1970s, back when I was a teenager. And I remember them well. But I was shocked to see so many people in their 20’s, 30’s and 40’s. For one 20-something I met, it was his fifth time seeing Billy Joel. He played all his hits, from the 1970s, and when they finally... Read More »
Another Pennsylvania Personal Care Sale From Prestige Group

Another Pennsylvania Personal Care Sale From Prestige Group

Jim Baranello of The Prestige Group closed yet another personal care deal in Pennsylvania, following up on his two-facility sale in the state earlier this month. In that previous deal, he represented a seller divesting their last two communities: a 56-unit personal care community in Montoursville and a 59-unit community in Danville, both located in north central Pennsylvania. While the Danville community was operating well with healthy cash flow and occupancy, the Montoursville community was more of a turnaround opportunity. Licensed for a combined 126 beds, the communities featured a 100% private pay census. The private buyer, who was looking to expand their operations in the area, paid... Read More »
Titan SenQuest Acquires Ohio Property

Titan SenQuest Acquires Ohio Property

Helios Healthcare Advisors has been on a roll in the last month, closing several acquisitions and financings since mid-November. After about a year in operation, it appears Bill Janis and Mario Wilson have really hit their stride. Most recently, the pair represented an Ohio owner in the sale of their last senior living property (a common theme of 2019) in Summit County (Cleveland area). Since buying the 117-unit community in the 1990s, the previous owner invested capex in the 1980s-vintage property in the late-1990s and again in 2016. And despite occupancy in the low- to mid-80s, with nearly all private pay residents, cash flow was healthy at nearly $1 million in EBITDAR with a roughly 25%... Read More »
Cambridge Realty Capital Closes Two Oklahoma Financings

Cambridge Realty Capital Closes Two Oklahoma Financings

Cambridge Realty Capital Companies closed two HUD transactions in the state of Oklahoma for a couple of skilled nursing facilities operated by Diakonos Group. The first was for a 125-bed senior care facility in Collinsville (Tulsa MSA), which received a $2.4 million loan with a fully amortizing 26-year term. The facility is comprised of 90 skilled nursing and 35 assisted living beds, with long- and short-term care plus physical, occupational and speech therapy services. Then, Cambridge arranged a $7.48 million loan, with a 28-year term, for a senior care campus in Vinita (northeast Oklahoma). The property offers 50 independent living, 25 assisted living and 127 skilled nursing beds, with... Read More »
Chartwell REIT Primes for Growth

Chartwell REIT Primes for Growth

Canadian REIT Chartwell Retirement Residences made a couple of moves that both expanded its portfolio and strengthened its liquidity, priming the company for further growth in 2020. Chartwell first announced the closing of its acquisition of a recently completed retirement community in the Alberta town of Sherwood Park (Edmonton MSA). The deal goes back to 2017, when Chartwell acquired a portfolio of four Edmonton-area senior living communities for CAD$298 million and a purchase option for the to-be-built Sherwood Park community for CAD$120 million, or about US$91 million and US$355,500 per unit. RBC Capital Markets advised Chartwell in that deal, while TD Securities and Greystone Real... Read More »
Is Ageism Dead?

Signing Off For The Decade

The past decade has been quite the ride, but we are ready for the roaring 2020s. Can you believe it? We are just a few days from leaving this decade and entering the 2020s. That will be a relief, because calling the past decade the 20-teens, or whatever, just never sounded right. But what a decade it was. It started with coming out of the worst financial calamity in 70 years, with nobody knowing what would happen next. Capital dried up, values dropped, M&A activity almost disappeared, development came to a standstill, at least for some, and unemployment soared.  But look what happened. Talk about resiliency. Capital is more abundant today than ever in the past. Values are mostly... Read More »
Helios Handles Wisconsin SNF Sale

Helios Handles Wisconsin SNF Sale

Helios Healthcare Advisors handled the sale of an 87-bed skilled nursing facility in West Salem, Wisconsin. Originally built in 1963 with additions in 1968 and 1994, the facility is 100% Medicare-certified and provides physical, speech, occupancy and recreational therapy, as well as short-term rehab and traditional long-term care. It was previously owned by a Lakewood, New Jersey investor but was divested as part of a multi-stage strategy to exit the state and focus on markets closer to their headquarters. Mario Wilson and Bill Janis positioned the facility as a value-add opportunity and a found a buyer in a Midwest operator of nearly 30 skilled nursing facilities in four Midwest states.... Read More »