• Blueprint Sets Pricing Record in New York State

    Blueprint advised a repeat private equity client in a record-setting sale of two standalone memory care communities in high barrier-to-entry submarkets in New York State. Combining for 104 units, these assets were purpose-built in the late 1990s and were stabilized at the time of the deal. Not only that, they were generating cash flow in excess... Read More »
  • CareTrust Keeps Its Foot on the Gas

    CareTrust REIT has deployed nearly $1 billion in closed transactions so far this year, after closing around $1.8 billion in investment activity in 2025, and its pipeline includes $450 million of near-term, actionable opportunities, excluding larger portfolio transactions. The REIT announced that it closed a few separate transactions in mid-April,... Read More »
  • VIUM Capital Announces Slew of HUD Closings

    VIUM Capital closed four HUD 232/223(f) financings in March totaling more than $63 million across a mix of skilled nursing and seniors housing communities. Two of the financings involved skilled nursing facilities in Oklahoma totaling 176 beds. The assets were originally acquired as part of a larger portfolio and refinanced following a... Read More »
  • Lument Secures HUD Express Lane Transaction

    Lument closed a refinance through HUD’s Express Lane for a 120-unit seniors housing community in Lincoln, Nebraska. Built in 2017, Pemberly Place Senior Living features 132 licensed beds and offers independent living, assisted living and memory care services. It also has an on-site medical clinic to offer a range of other healthcare services. The... Read More »
  • CBRF Trades in Wisconsin

    A community-based residential facility in southern Wisconsin came under new ownership. The seller had acquired the facility a couple of years ago and brought it to stabilization. They also conducted renovations in 2025 on the physical plant, which was originally built in 2001. The ultimate buyer was a Midwest ownership group that was looking to... Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending September 4, 2020

Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending September 4, 2020

August had just 20 publicly announced senior care transactions, and the start of September was also slow. Here are the recent deals. Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice AZ-based owner/operator2 assisted living/memory care communities in CON/A O&M InvestmentsVilla Toscana at Cypress Woods$5.3 million FL-based owner/operatorInsignia of Towne Lake$2.9... Read More »
O&M Investments Makes Two SNF Acquisitions in Texas

O&M Investments Makes Two SNF Acquisitions in Texas

A skilled nursing facility in an affluent Houston, Texas suburb found a new owner thanks to expertise of Adam Heavenrich of Heavenrich & Company. Built in 2009 on an 80-acre medical campus that is anchored by the Kelsey Seybold Clinic, the facility features 120 beds. Owned by a publicly traded REIT and operated by StoneGate Senior Living, it was around 76% occupied at the time of the sale. The property was well maintained, which a new owner could use to boost census and value.  Heavenrich & Company received multiple bids on the facility and ultimately selected O&M Investments, a private equity firm led by Nick Martinez and Todd Okum. The purchase price came to $5.3 million, or... Read More »
SLIB Closes Georgia Assisted Living Sale

SLIB Closes Georgia Assisted Living Sale

At the start of September, Senior Living Investment Brokerage’s Brad Clousing and Patrick Byrne closed the sale of an assisted living community in Woodstock, Georgia. The pair also assisted the buyer in assuming attractive HUD debt on the property with a 2.62% interest rate. We’re sure that motivated the buyer to get the deal done.  Originally built in 1996, this community features 33 assisted living units and has historically been well occupied since then. Census dipped in recent months but shot back up to 95% right before close. In the last 12 months, the community brought in nearly $90,000 in EBITDAR on nearly $1.1 million of revenues, so that 8% margin could be improved. It is well... Read More »
Dwight Capital Acquires Love Funding

Dwight Capital Acquires Love Funding

The HUD market seems to be the steadiest in the senior care lending world since the onset of COVID-19, after a few hiccups and delays earlier this year. Recently, there was a shake-up in the lending market, as Dwight Capital acquired Love Funding, the HUD lending subsidiary of Midland States Bank.   Love Funding’s platform will be rebranded and integrated within Dwight Capital, while Midland States Bank will retain the existing Love Funding servicing portfolio. Read More »
Senior Capital Advisors Secures Construction Financing For Florida Property

Senior Capital Advisors Secures Construction Financing For Florida Property

Bruce Gibson of Senior Capital Advisors successfully closed construction financing for a to-be-built senior living campus with a unique addition to it. Located in the Westchester suburb of Miami, Florida, The Contemporary will feature 85 units of independent living along with MedSquare Place, a 33,000-square foot medical office component on the first floor of the building.   We have always been a fan of adding services like these to senior care campuses, which not only add a convenience to the seniors living there but also provide some revenue diversification for the building. The added visibility for the community by patrons of the MOB doesn’t hurt either with its... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Closes Hawaii SNF Refinance

Lancaster Pollard Closes Hawaii SNF Refinance

Lancaster Pollard Mortgage Company followed up its HUD refinance of an assisted living/memory care community in Minnesota for a deal in a much more hospitable year-round climate. Doug Harper and Casey Moore of Lancaster Pollard headed to Honolulu, Hawaii (lucky guys) to arrange permanent financing for a senior living community located on the slopes of Punchbowl Crater, an extinct volcanic cone in downtown Honolulu.   Owned by MW Group, Ltd., the community was built in 2003 and renovated in 2017. It currently consists of 68 independent living, 20 assisted living and 20 memory care units, and is one of six seniors housing and care properties in Hawaii operated by The Plaza Assisted... Read More »
Financial Relief For Seniors Housing

Financial Relief For Seniors Housing

Federal financial relief may be coming to assisted living and memory care providers, but will it be enough? The folks at ASHA, Argentum and NCAL have been working overtime to obtain some federal financial relief for their private pay members to deal with the burdens associated with COVID-19.  It’s supposed to be coming soon, but will it be enough? For now, the formula will be based on how it worked for Medicaid providers, which is 2% of 2019 revenues. For an 80-unit assisted living/memory care community with an average $5,000 monthly rate, that might come in at close to $80,000. If you have 50 communities, that is $4 million. Now we’re talking. For a more modest community with 50 units in... Read More »
Death “Because of” COVID

Death “Because of” COVID

Who would have thought that a relatively short story called “Death By or With COVID” would have had so many responses from readers? It must have hit an industry chord because it does ring true. Most of the people dying in nursing homes or other senior living communities had serious health issues before COVID struck. And if it wasn’t COVID, it was going to be one of their co-morbidities, if not the 2020-2021 flu season.  And then the “news story” hit that only 6% of the COVID deaths were solely from COVID. Apparently, the conspiracy theorists took to their twitter accounts, President Trump included, obviously to downplay the role that COVID has been playing. We swear, we had nothing to do... Read More »
Carnegie Capital Refinances Oklahoma SNF Portfolio

Carnegie Capital Refinances Oklahoma SNF Portfolio

JD Stettin of Carnegie Capital structured the refinance of three skilled nursing facilities in south-central Oklahoma. Built on average 20 years ago, these facilities total 330 licensed beds in three different counties. There was a maturing loan from a large national bank on the portfolio, so in came Mr. Stettin to replace it on behalf of the local owner/operator.  An Arkansas-based regional bank provided an $11.5 million loan with a five-year term. The interest rate came in below 4%, or 3.995% to be exact, and was fixed for the length of the term. That makes for a happy client, we imagine.  Read More »
Capitol Seniors Housing Opens Community In Chicagoland

Capitol Seniors Housing Opens Community In Chicagoland

Capitol Seniors Housing opened a brand-new assisted living/memory care community in Chicago’s Highland Park neighborhood to be operated by Atria Senior Living. What’s the name for the new community? Appropriately, it’s Atria Highland Park.  This property was designed by Richmond, Virginia-based Mosely Architects and Austin, Texas-based Studio Six 5, and features 72,000 total square feet in three stories. There are 86 units, 22 of which are in a separate memory care neighborhood that also features a salon. Other amenities across the community include a theater, art studio, fitness center and a wellness center offering health checkups and monitoring. That probably reduces the stress of not... Read More »
It’s Not As Bad As It Seems, And It Is Getting Better

It’s Not As Bad As It Seems, And It Is Getting Better

We have been having a series of off-the-record conversations with CEOs in the senior living industry, and while most are a little cranky about the past six months, many are also becoming a little more optimistic and see the light at the end of the tunnel. That’s the good news.  The bad news is that for most of them census remains at low levels they have never seen before. That is beginning to change as leads, tours and move-ins are now moving in an upward direction, especially in the Northeast which was hit first by the pandemic and recovered first as well.   We have also been hearing that staffing is returning to more normal levels, with staffing costs for some companies... Read More »