• 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 »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending October 4, 2019

Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending October 4, 2019

Check out our recent senior care M&A transactions! Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice Cascade Capital GroupHealthquest portfolio$10.5 million New Jersey-based family businessThe Place at Pooler$7.35 million North Carolina-based regional owner/operatorThe Waterford in Hermitage,$20.05 million Regional ownerChristian Horizons portfolio$20... Read More »
Cascade Capital Group Sizing Up South Dakota SNF Market

Cascade Capital Group Sizing Up South Dakota SNF Market

Cascade Capital Group clearly sees something in the South Dakota skilled nursing market, following up on its acquisition of 16 Skyline skilled nursing facilities in the state with the purchase of two SNFs and an assisted living community in Huron and Sioux Falls. Previously owned by a publicly traded REIT, this portfolio features a combined 322 skilled nursing beds and 55 assisted living beds. Two of the properties, the 163-bed SNF and the 55-bed AL community are located on the same campus in Huron, while the Sioux Falls facility is licensed for 159 SN beds. Their owner deemed the facilities to be non-core. Certainly, the properties were on the older side, having been built in the 1960s,... Read More »
Hurricane-Damaged SNF Sells in Georgia

Hurricane-Damaged SNF Sells in Georgia

Despite a wing still not operational since Hurricane Matthew in 2017, a skilled nursing facility in Midway, Georgia changed from one not-for-profit’s hands to another’s. Magnolia Manors, a Methodist-affiliated operator of eight other locations throughout south Georgia, acquired the 150-bed facility for a sum of $6.85 million, or $45,600 per bed. Mike Pardoll of Marcus & Millichap handled the deal. Originally built in 1972 with an addition in 1982, the facility, which is licensed for 169 beds, was 75% occupied during the marketing period, with a 15% Medicare and 9% private pay/managed care census, with the remainder made up of Medicaid patients. About $7.8 million of bond debt remains... Read More »
Gloves Come Off in Brookdale’s Proxy Fight

Gloves Come Off in Brookdale’s Proxy Fight

The proxy cards are in the mail to Brookdale Senior Living’s shareholders for the vote at the annual meeting, to be held on October 29, and it looks like CEO Cindy Baier has taken the gloves off. Brookdale has been fighting shareholder Land & Buildings’ nominee for a board position, Jay Flaherty, for many weeks. But now they are bringing up some of Mr. Flaherty’s past transgressions which, according to Brookdale, make “him unfit to serve as a member of Brookdale’s Board.” These transgressions include some foul play in 2011 when he was CEO of HCP, Inc., which resulted in a $101.7 million judgment against HCP, for which the court stated that HCP engaged in “fraudulent conduct with the... Read More »
SLIB Hits Q4 Running

SLIB Hits Q4 Running

Senior Living Investment Brokerage burst out of the gates in the fourth quarter, announcing three skilled nursing sales in just the first couple of days. Patrick Byrne, Jeff Binder and Ryan Saul first represented the not-for-profit Christian Horizons in the sale four skilled nursing facilities in central and southern Illinois for $20 million, or $37,500 per bed. Three of the facilities (in Decatur, Herrin and Washington) were built in the early-1970s with more recent renovations, while the fourth in Neoga was originally built in 1992. They total 506 skilled nursing beds and 12 independent living duplexes, or 27 units. Occupancy ranged from 68% to 85% for the three older facilities and was... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Sells New Nashville Property

Evans Senior Investments Sells New Nashville Property

Having just wrapped up its initial lease-up, a senior living community in Nashville, Tennessee just sold to a regional owner/operator based in North Carolina. Evans Senior Investments handled the transaction, which came with a $20.05 million, or $213,000 per unit, purchase price. Built in 2017, the community features 94 units of assisted living and memory care, with a 100% private pay census. Occupancy was a strong 94% at the time of the sale. It operated at around a 20% margin on $3.57 million of revenues. The seller was an independent owner/operator. Read More »
CareTrust REIT’s Central Valley Expansion

CareTrust REIT’s Central Valley Expansion

CareTrust REIT made a major expansion into California’s Central Valley, acquiring two senior care facilities in a pair of off-market transactions. The targets were a 70-bed skilled nursing facility in Modesto, and a senior care campus in Sacramento with 99 skilled nursing bed and 72 assisted living units. Both were leased to an existing CareTrust tenant, Kalesta Healthcare, LLC, under a master lease with about 14 years left on the initial term. There are also two five-year renewal options. Scheduled cash rent for the first two years is expected to be about $3.9 million with CPI-based escalators thereafter. CareTrust also committed to provide a revenue-producing $1.0 million fund for... Read More »
Seniors Housing And NIMBY

Seniors Housing And NIMBY

When NIMBYism hits home, and in my mailbox. I put some mail in my mailbox at home this morning (yes, I still use the USPS), and overnight someone slipped a “Dear Neighbors” letter in the box. It wanted to make us aware of a “massive” new development planned just two blocks from the downtown area of town. And what is the plan? A CCRC, which is something our growing elderly population has been clamoring for for a few decades. It is sponsored by the local not-for-profit that already has a skilled nursing facility and a small IL community, which is really assisted living “lite.” But there has never been anything like a CCRC, which is what many of the elderly want. Large units, services,... Read More »
The Brookdale Restructuring Continues

The Brookdale Restructuring Continues

No one can say that Brookdale Senior Living hasn’t been hard at work restructuring its assets and balance sheet as it tries to steady the operational ship. Well, maybe we can think of a couple of people. Nevertheless, Brookdale announced that it reached a series of agreements with its landlord HCP Inc. to hopefully put the company on surer financial and operational footing. First, BKD will sell its unconsolidated JV interests amounting to 51% of a portfolio of 13 CCRCs and 5,641 total units to HCP for $510 million, or about $177,000 per unit assuming 100% interest. The deal nets Brookdale about $277 million in cash proceeds after pro rata debt on the properties. The transaction is expected... Read More »
SLIB Handles Small Pennsylvania Portfolio Sale

SLIB Handles Small Pennsylvania Portfolio Sale

Ryan Saul and Toby Siefert of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the sale of two senior care facilities in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Local media reported the acquisition in March, naming Allied Services Integrated Health System, a locally based not-for-profit health system, as the buyer. Located less than one mile apart, these were the only skilled nursing/seniors housing assets owned by the not-for-profit seller, the Diocese of Scranton, which cited the industry’s increased complexity as its reason to exit. One of the properties was built in 1975 and 1998 with 133 skilled nursing beds and an attached 60-unit personal care community. The other property was built in the mid-1970s... Read More »
KeyBank Arranges Financing for Foundations Health Solutions

KeyBank Arranges Financing for Foundations Health Solutions

KeyBank Real Estate Capital secured an $11 million HUD loan for Foundations Health Solutions to pay down acquisition debt it used to buy a 150-bed skilled nursing facility in Columbus, Ohio. KeyBank had provided the original $87.5 million bridge loan, which supported the acquisition of this Columbus facility plus eight other facilities previously owned by Welltower. The facility was originally built in 1968, with renovations in 1995 and 2007. To this point, KeyBank has closed $47 million of HUD loans for the portfolio, including a $36.3 million loan for four facilities totaling 442 licensed beds located throughout Ohio. As with that transaction, John Randolph of KeyBank’s Commercial... Read More »