• 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 »
Land and Buildings Strikes Again

Land and Buildings Strikes Again

Still trying to get two board nominees, Land and Buildings steps up its criticism and need for change. Well, well, well. Jonathan Litt of Land and Buildings is at it again, this time with a six-page letter to Brookdale Senior Living shareholders, eviscerating Brookdale’s management and board, past and present, for the company’s severe underperformance over the past 10 years. So, what else is new? Look, management and much of the board has changed and the only ones who can be blamed for the disastrous Emeritus acquisition are the old management, the former board and perhaps their advisors, who should have known better.  Highlighted in his letter was the underperformance of Brookdale... Read More »
Locust Point Starts Equity Financing Program

Locust Point Starts Equity Financing Program

Debt is certainly plentiful these days in the seniors housing and care market, leading us to a record level of M&A and investment in the industry. But what about equity? That can still trip up investors looking to purchase or develop a seniors housing property, especially if they have to raise it among family and friends, or from their own personal funds. But alternative asset manager Locust Point Capital is announcing its own project equity financing program for the seniors housing industry. The program will provide owner/operators with between $1 million and $10 million of equity capital for the construction, substantial renovation and/or acquisition of independent living, assisted... Read More »
Meridian Capital Group On Track for Another Big Year

Meridian Capital Group On Track for Another Big Year

The seniors housing and healthcare team at Meridian Capital Group has already had quite the year, reaching $1.3 billion in closed transactions so far. That total is spread across 41 deals in 22 states. Well done to Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin and Josh Simpson. Some of the recent highlights include an $80 million acquisition financing and a $7.5 million AR line closed for five skilled nursing facilities totaling 740 beds in Pennsylvania. The acquisition loans didn’t stop there, with the team also arranging $38.5 million in financing for a borrower acquiring three SNFs and refinancing five additional facilities totaling 840 beds in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Then, in Massachusetts, the buyer of... Read More »
Local Doctor Buys Rural Texas Assisted Living

Local Doctor Buys Rural Texas Assisted Living

Using his expertise in the Texas M&A market, Matthew Alley of Senior Living Investment Brokerage sold an assisted living community in rural east Texas for $2.8 million, or $56,000 per unit. Originally built in 1994, the 50-unit community is the only licensed assisted living property in Franklin County. It includes 68 licensed Type A beds, and at the time of marketing, it was about 58% occupied, generating about $50,000 annually in EBITDAR on over $840,000 in revenues. Its independent owner/operator was looking to exit the seniors housing industry, ultimately selling the community to a local doctor. That medical knowledge can’t hurt in turning the community around. Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield Arranges Equity for New Jersey Development

Cushman & Wakefield Arranges Equity for New Jersey Development

Acting as exclusive advisor to a joint venture between Pike Properties, Thrive Senior Living and Gallium Real Estate, the Cushman & Wakefield team of Richard Swartz, Jay Wagner and Jim Dooley arranged institutional equity capital for a to-be-built senior living community in Montvale, New Jersey. Located on an 11.5-acre site with a spacious 33,000-square foot interior courtyard, the development will feature 203 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. The $26.5 million of equity (provided by a private equity fund) will complement $54.6 million of debt financing from another seniors housing lender. Read More »
Ventas Reports Second Quarter Results

Ventas Reports Second Quarter Results

Ventas (VTR) was the first one out of the block to report second quarter earnings, and while the results were about as expected, on the seniors housing and care side the turnaround has still not arrived. In fact, the second quarter was disappointing but not unexpected, given all the quiet industry talk about census, margins and staffing costs. One caveat is that just four companies make up two-thirds of VTR’s seniors housing and care portfolio, and one can question whether they are representative of the industry. But since two of the four are Atria Senior Living and Sunrise Senior Living, we are not talking about the dregs of the sector. For the seniors housing operating portfolio (SHOP),... Read More »
Newmark Knight Frank Closes Refi

Newmark Knight Frank Closes Refi

The Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) Seniors Housing team, led by David Fasano & Sarah Anderson, recently closed on a refinance for a 145-unit IL/AL/MC community located in Brown Deer, Wisconsin. A large private equity firm with significant experience in the senior living business, along with their operating partner, New Perspective Senior Living, secured financing from a large regional lender. The relationship marked the first transaction between NPSL and the lender, and this was one of the first debt transactions that the NKF team has completed start to finish since joining NKF. Read More »
NHI Grows Its Colorado Portfolio

NHI Grows Its Colorado Portfolio

National Health Investors has added another property to its growing portfolio. Paying $7.6 million, or $149,000 per unit (including $100,000 of closing costs), the REIT acquired a 51-unit assisted living community in Pueblo, Colorado. Built in 1997 with an addition in 2008, the community was 96% occupied at the time of the sale. Cappella Living Solutions, which is owned by the not-for-profit Christian Living Communities and operates a portfolio of 26 communities, will take over the lease, under a 15-year term and an annual lease rate of 7.25%. The agreement included a CPI-based escalator with a floor of 2% beginning August 2020. NHI funded the deal with proceeds from its revolving credit... Read More »
IPA Seniors Housing Handles Pittsburgh Portfolio Sale

IPA Seniors Housing Handles Pittsburgh Portfolio Sale

We wrote of Chicago Pacific Founders’ acquisition of a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-area portfolio of independent living communities last week but have now learned that IPA Seniors Housing handled the transaction. The team of Joshua Jandris and Mark Myers, plus Marcus & Millichap’s broker of record in Pennsylvania, Sean Beuche, represented the seller, a partnership between Graziano Construction and Sweetbay Senior Living. Two of the communities were recently built, one in 2017 and the other opening earlier this year. The third property was developed in 2009 and is the only one that is fully stabilized. Totaling 384 units, the portfolio sold for $75 million, or $195,300 per unit. Jordyn... Read More »
Hunt Real Estate Capital Refinances Recently-Expanded Property

Hunt Real Estate Capital Refinances Recently-Expanded Property

After a recent expansion, a small assisted living community in Tremonton, Utah, is refinancing through Fannie Mae with the help of Brady Johnson, Andy Kitts and Heath Coryell of Hunt Real Estate Capital. Originally built in 1995, the 28-unit community was Utah-based SAL Management’s first acquisition, back in 2006. The company’s portfolio has now expanded beyond Utah to Arizona and Colorado, as well. At the Tremonton location, they recently opened 12 new units after completing an extensive renovation and expansion, which included updates to all areas of the building. With the project done, and the community stabilized, SAL obtained a $3.74 million refinance. Read More »