• 60 Seconds with Swett: The Fight between Brookdale and Ortelius

    It has been a bit amusing to see both Brookdale Senior Living and Ortelius Advisors claim victory with Institutional Shareholder Services’ report on the upcoming July 11th stockholders vote on the new slate of directors for the Board. For Ortelius, ISS recommended voting for Steven Vick and Lori Wittman, two of the six nominees that Ortelius put... Read More »
  • Newmark Closes Major Portfolio Deal

    In one of the more significant deals to close so far in 2025, Newmark announced the off-market sale of a large portfolio spread across the United States. Totaling 900 units of independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing, the portfolio is located in Virginia, Georgia, Maryland, Indiana and Arizona. Little else has been... Read More »
  • Off-Market Transaction Closes in California

    JCH Senior Housing Investment Brokerage was engaged in the sale of a well-established assisted living/memory care community with 86 units and 100 beds in Inland Empire, California. JCH was tasked with confidentially marketing the community to a select group of qualified buyers. There were multiple qualified offers, with a local operator being... Read More »
  • O&M Investments Acquires Nebraska Senior Care Portfolio

    O&M Investments, LLC, led by Nick Martinez and Todd Okum, has expanded its footprint into Nebraska through an acquisition of a senior care portfolio. The seller was a mom & pop seeking an exit from the industry. Built in the 1970s and 1980s, the six senior care facilities are located in the Omaha MSA, comprising around 350 skilled nursing... Read More »
  • Berkadia Closes Four HUD Loans

    Within the past 30 days, Jay Healy and Andrew Lanzaro of Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare have closed four HUD 232/223(f) loans totaling $64.4 million in aggregate proceeds. The loans were obtained on behalf of three sponsors and are secured by three seniors housing communities and a skilled nursing facility spanning Hawaii, Texas and... Read More »
Senior Housing Properties Trust Dividend Takes a Dive

Senior Housing Properties Trust Dividend Takes a Dive

If you read our lead story in the April issue of The SeniorCare Investor, you may have thought it couldn’t get much worse for Senior Housing Properties Trust (SNH) and its tenant Five Star Senior Living (FVE). And then on Thursday, SNH officially dropped its quarterly dividend by 61.5% from $0.39 to just $0.15 per share, with a forward yield of 7.43%. The company had previously mentioned that they would lower its annual dividend to between $0.55 and $0.65 (and deciding on $0.60), but if a dividend decline is bad on its own, it’s even worse for SNH whose high, double-digit yield was probably its best asset in the eyes of its shareholders. Now, SNH’s yield still ranks higher than a number of... Read More »
American House Sells IL Community in Michigan

American House Sells IL Community in Michigan

Mike Garbers and Cody Tremper of Greystone Real Estate Advisors worked on behalf of American House Senior Living Communities to sell their independent living community in Southfield, Michigan to a local owner. Featuring 202 units, the community was built in 1987 on a 10.4-acre campus. It was well-occupied at 95%, so the new owner should be hitting the ground running. It also helps that the new owner has several other IL communities in the area. Read More »
Original Owner Exits Two AL Communities in Illinois

Original Owner Exits Two AL Communities in Illinois

The original developer of two assisted living communities totaling 135 units in Illinois (St. Louis MSA) is finally exiting the assets, after more than 10 years of ownership, with the help of Mike Surak and Matthew Andriano of Marcus & Millichap and Mark Myers and Joshua Jandris of IPA Seniors Housing. Operated under the Fountains Assisted Living brand, the properties are located in Granite City (built in 2000) and Godfrey (built in 2006), or about 23 miles apart from each other. They were previously owned by a local investment group that featured a large number of individual investors. The out-of-state buyer, an affiliate of Triloma Seniors Housing, will look to use their operating... Read More »
Cambridge Refinances Texas Senior Living Community

Cambridge Refinances Texas Senior Living Community

Cambridge Realty Capital Companies arranged a HUD refinance of an assisted living/memory care community in Sherman, Texas. Built in 1982 and featuring 49 units, the community is owned by a Texas limited liability company, but according to our M&A database, it was last acquired in 2015 by a non-traded REIT. At the time it was 98% occupied and was purchased for $5.2 million, or about $106,100 per unit. The community is now being refinanced by a $4.645 million HUD loan with a 30-year term. Read More »
What About the CCRC M&A Market?

What About the CCRC M&A Market?

The CCRC (or LPC) acquisition market, which we highlighted in the First Edition of The Seniors Housing Acquisition & Investment Report, is the thinnest of all the major sectors of seniors housing and care. The number of potential buyers is smaller, the lender and investor pool is smaller, and the number communities for sale each year is smaller. Because the market is not very active, we have grouped our statistics in two-year intervals (with the exception of the three-year period before the Great Recession) to minimize the impact of outlier sales at both extremes. Anecdotally, we have heard that the CCRC market is possibly faring the strongest of the seniors housing sectors. There has... Read More »
Misleading Information for Consumers

Misleading Information for Consumers

A professor with a new book on dementia care claims a semi-private room in a “decent” nursing facility in a big city costs $240,000 per year. Hogwash. I hate it when bad information gets out there, and a professor of psychiatry and bioethics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine should know better. Especially someone coming out with a book called: Dementia Revisited: Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End.” Dr. Tia Powell published a story last weekend in The Wall Street Journal called “New Hopes for Dementia Care.” In it, she claims that the cost for a semi-private room in a “decent” nursing home in a big city is $240,000 a year if you don’t qualify for... Read More »
Blueprint and BlueMountain

Blueprint and BlueMountain

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announced that it was involved in the Sabra Health Care REIT sale of 28 skilled nursing facilities in Texas and Louisiana to a joint venture of BlueMountain Capital Management, BM Eagle Holdings and Capital Funding Group for $282.5 million. Engaged by the joint venture buyer for their expertise on the Texas and Louisiana markets, Ben Firestone, Chris Hyldahl and Gideon Orion of Blueprint helped find local operating partners and tenants for the portfolio, which was previously operated by the now-bankrupt Senior Care Centers. Despite the bad news surrounding SCC’s financial troubles, these facilities were still operating decently well, particularly... Read More »
Greystone Refinances on the Jersey Shore

Greystone Refinances on the Jersey Shore

It was a team effort from Greystone to successfully close a Fannie Mae refinance of an assisted living community on the New Jersey Shore. Working on behalf of the borrower, Sage Healthcare Partners, Greystone’s DJ Elefant originated the $24 million loan, with Neal Raburn providing support in structuring, underwriting and closing the transaction. The 10-year loan (with a 20-year amortization and two years of interest only) replaces the original bridge loan provided by Greystone to enable Sage Healthcare Partners to acquire the property in 2017. Originally built in 1949 and renovated in 1997, the six-story community also had one floor converted to memory care in 2010. Back then, it was owned... Read More »
HHC Finance’s March Madness

HHC Finance’s March Madness

Housing & Healthcare Finance posted a strong month in March with six HUD transactions closed for skilled nursing facilities in Florida, New Jersey, New York and Texas, plus one for a 156-bed supportive living facility in Illinois, all totaling $62 million. The Illinois closing marked the fifth supportive living HUD closing for HHC Finance in the last 12 months, an impressive stat given the small size of the market. Not resting on its HUD laurels, HHC Finance also announced that it placed about 15 bridge loans totaling more than $150 million in the first quarter, alone. They were closed by the firm’s Capital Advisory Group, led by Isaac Haas and Neil Gamss. Read More »
Being Public in Senior Care

Being Public in Senior Care

In the first of his Fireside Chat series, our Editor Steve Monroe takes a deeper look at one of the pressing questions facing the senior care industry these days, is it worth it to be publicly traded in this space? Be sure to stay tuned for more Fireside Chats in the coming months, when Steve will give his thoughts on topics like the future of REIT financing, risk-taking in the market, and the role that CEOs and other C-Suite members should be playing in their companies... Read More »