• 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 »
Healthcare M&A Hits Frenzied Pace

Healthcare M&A Hits Frenzied Pace

Deals are still bubbling to the surface, but the second quarter is in the books, and it was another big one for healthcare M&A. Across the 13 sectors, spanning from behavioral health and rehabilitation to biotechnology and our bailiwick, long-term care, we recorded 423 separate transactions, up from 393 deals in the first quarter, according to our M&A database Deal Search Online. Leading the way in activity, not surprisingly, was Long-Term Care with 113 mergers and acquisitions, followed by Other Services (which includes urgent care centers, ambulatory care centers, CROs and other health care services not placed into the other sectors) with 49, eHealth (47), Pharmaceuticals (37)... Read More »
CareTrust Invests in Idaho

CareTrust Invests in Idaho

CareTrust REIT and Cascadia Healthcare expanded their relationship to 12 facilities and 1,013 total beds with the REIT’s acquisition of a brand-new transitional care facility in Nampa, Idaho. This transaction was by no means out of the blue. Cascadia’s development affiliate opened the 99-bed facility in 2017, but before that, CareTrust had made a preferred equity investment in the property in addition to obtaining a purchase option at a formula-based price upon stabilization of the operations. Fill-up must have gone smoothly, since the property sold to CareTrust for approximately $12.8 million, inclusive of transaction costs and after receiving credit for its original equity investment and... Read More »
(Most) Senior Care Provider Stocks Shine in H1:19

(Most) Senior Care Provider Stocks Shine in H1:19

[featured in the July issue of The SeniorCare Investor] With the overall stock market posting its best first half of a year since 1997, one would expect that seniors housing and care stocks would also have performed well. The major benchmarks are up 14% to 17% so far this year, and only two of the providers have topped that. Of the larger cap providers, The Ensign Group was the star with a 46.7% price increase in six months, and that was after jumping by 74.7% in calendar 2018. The company just keeps on rockin’, and when it splits into two separate operating companies later this year, one for skilled nursing and one for seniors housing and home health care, the expectation is that the... Read More »
CBRE Comes Full Circle

CBRE Comes Full Circle

CBRE was all over the sale of a seniors housing community in Conroe, Texas, facilitating its sale on behalf of the previous owner and arranging acquisition financing for the buyer, Chicago Pacific Founders. Originally built in 2016 by a joint venture between Paradigm Senior Living and Padua (a real estate development firm based in Houston), this community features 60 independent living, 60 assisted living and 20 memory care units, along with 17 detached IL cottages across an 11-acre campus. Its $30 million construction cost was financed by one of Lancaster Pollard’s first Propero™ loans, which totaled about $26.7 million. The JV contributed a portion of equity and also received a purchase... Read More »
The Disgraceful Democratic Debates

The Disgraceful Democratic Debates

The presidential debates last week had a glaring hole, one that everyone should be concerned about. I don’t know about you, but I watched all four hours of the presidential debates last week. I do sort of thrive on those things. But didn’t you think there was something missing? Something major that was not asked? There was not one question from the moderators about fixing Social Security, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or our growing national debt. The Social Security “trust fund” is projected to be depleted in 16 years, just when the last boomer turns 71. Next year it will spend more than it takes in for the first time in nearly 40 years. Medicare’s hospital insurance “trust fund” is expected... Read More »
Cascade Capital Group Acquires 16 Former Skyline SNFs

Cascade Capital Group Acquires 16 Former Skyline SNFs

The future is looking brighter for 16 South Dakota skilled nursing facilities formerly owned by Golden Living and operated by Skyline Healthcare, as Cascade Capital Group acquired the portfolio. The facilities had been operated by a receiver since last Spring, after Skyline infamously ran nearly empty on basic food and medical supplies for them. Houlihan Lokey Capital represented Golden Living in the transaction, which included more than 1,000 beds across the state from Rapid City to Sioux Falls. To fund the deal, Cascade secured financing through its long-standing lending partner, CIBC Bank USA. Cascade’s operating partner, Legacy Healthcare, will take over the operations; no easy task.... Read More »
Clousing Sizzles in the Southeast

Clousing Sizzles in the Southeast

The summer heat isn’t getting to Brad Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage, who recently closed two transactions in the Southeast. First, Mr. Clousing was joined by Daniel Geraghty and Dave Balow to sell a personal care community about 65 miles northeast of Atlanta. Originally built in 1994, the community operates with 24 private personal care units and 10 semi-private memory care units. It was extensively renovated in 2015 and offers additional room for an expansion. With the renovation complete and the community stabilized at 97% occupancy, its local owner/operator decided to exit the asset. A Northeast owner/operator entered the Georgia market with its purchase of the... Read More »
O&M Investments Adds Another SNF

O&M Investments Adds Another SNF

Private equity firm O&M Investments acquired a value-add skilled nursing facility in the Dallas, Texas market. At face value, this appears to be a good opportunity for O&M to generate a healthy return. First, the facility is relatively new at just 13 years old, with improvements made in 2010. Second, it recently converted a wing of the facility to skilled memory care, which should improve quality mix (currently at 16%) and revenues. Because of the conversion, the facility currently operates with 104 out of 124 licensed beds, with 83% occupancy based on the functional beds. Finally, the facility is located in an affluent, inner suburb of Dallas (Richardson), which certainly doesn’t... Read More »
29th Street Capital Enters Senior Living Market

29th Street Capital Enters Senior Living Market

There’s a new private equity investor in the senior living market. 29th Street Capital, a firm focused on value-add purchases in the multifamily space, partnered with Knoxville, Tennessee-based developer/operator Solinity to make its first acquisition in the metro Atlanta area. The target was a 25-unit assisted living community in Norcross. Built 32 years ago, it is currently receiving renovations to its exterior, units and common areas to improve operations (and add value). 29th Street and Solinity renamed the community under their new brand, Enrich Senior Living. Look for the partners to grow their holdings across the Southeast. Read More »
Capitol Seniors Housing Opens High-End Maryland Community

Capitol Seniors Housing Opens High-End Maryland Community

Capitol Seniors Housing just opened an assisted living/memory care community in the Baltimore area at a cost of $27.2 million, or nearly $325,000 per unit. Unique to the community (and probably pushed up its development cost) is its location adjacent to the 79-acre Waugh Chapel Towne Centre, which features a Wegmans, Target, Dicks, an IMAX theater and others. The community itself, in addition to its 84 units, featured a second-story terrace, a courtyard and a number of amenities. Moseley Architects designed the building, with Faulkner Design Group designing the interior. CSH hired The Arbor Company to manage the community and to oversee its fill-up. Read More »