• 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 »
Average Independent Living Values Slide Significantly

Average Independent Living Values Slide Significantly

Some have argued that the independent living market will fare better than assisted living or skilled nursing in the immediate aftermath of COVID-19. This is easy to see, given independent living’s longer average length of stay, lower expenses and younger, healthier resident population. Long-term may be a different story, as we brought up in the June edition of The SeniorCare Investor.   But interestingly, in the trailing-12 months ended June 30th, the IL sector recorded the largest drop in values from 2019 compared with the other senior care sectors. The average price per unit fell 16.5% from $233,600 in 2019 to $194,900 in the last four quarters, according to The Senior Care Acquisition... Read More »
The Prestige Group Sells Shuttered Senior Living Community

The Prestige Group Sells Shuttered Senior Living Community

A purpose-built, 62-unit senior living community located in suburban Philadelphia was shuttered over a year ago, but new ownership will soon reopen it as a market-rate apartment building. Joe Shallow and Jim Baranello of The Prestige Group represented the seller in the sale, which came to $3 million, or $48,400 per unit.  Originally built in 1989 as Sunrise Assisted Living, the Jenkintown community featured both personal care (assisted living) and memory care services. Chelsea Senior Living bought it around 2010 as part of an expansion outside of its New York and New Jersey footprint. However, this was Chelsea’s first and ultimately only facility in Pennsylvania, and after a few years any... Read More »
HJ Sims Closes Bank Financing for Not-For-Profit’s Independent Living Expansion

HJ Sims Closes Bank Financing for Not-For-Profit’s Independent Living Expansion

Thanks to a two-part bank financing arranged by HJ Sims, not-for-profit Presbyterian SeniorCare Network (PSCN) will open a new independent living community in North Strabane Township, Pennsylvania, adding to its significant presence in the western part of the state.   PSCN, which already provides senior care services to over 6,500 seniors through 53 senior living communities, affordable housing facilities and at-home programs/services, is partnering with Senior Housing Partners, a subsidiary of Presbyterian Homes & Services.  HJ Sims had worked with PSCN and its related entities before, including the 2017 construction financing for a memory care expansion and its Washington, PA campus,... Read More »
You Can’t Make This Up

You Can’t Make This Up

California’s nursing home inspectors aren’t being tested for COVID-19. Say what? Nursing homes have been vilified in the media for the number of deaths in their facilities due to the coronavirus. Yes, infection control protocols were not up to snuff at many of them, and certainly not for this virus. But when asymptomatic staff and visitors arrive and unknowingly infect the residents, well, there was not much you could do about it, especially in the early months of the pandemic. Testing has been crucial, as we have all learned. But then we come to find out there was one group that somehow didn’t get the memo. Apparently, the state health inspectors who are visiting all of the... Read More »
Brookdale Breaks Bread With Ventas

Brookdale Breaks Bread With Ventas

Perhaps the two most powerful women in seniors housing, Debbie Cafaro of Ventas and Cindy Baier of Brookdale Senior Living, had to make some decisions with regard to Brookdale’s under water leases that have a maturity date in 2025. If there can be any silver lining with the current pandemic, it most likely pushed the two sides to come to an agreement to do something now before the leases drowned in more red ink. And while there are benefits to both companies, the newly revised lease agreements provide a cash-flow lifeline to Brookdale.  The triple-net leased portfolio now has 120 communities, but when the lease was last negotiated back in 2018, combining several leases into one master... Read More »
Berkadia’s HUD Bonanza

Berkadia’s HUD Bonanza

Berkadia’s Seniors Housing & Healthcare Group has been hard at work with HUD deals so far this summer, with over $50 million in closings in June and July. The transactions were all closed for skilled nursing clients in three states across the country. Jay Healy and Bianca Andujo first secured a $22.24 million loan to take out existing debt at a 157-bed skilled nursing facility in Worchester County, Maryland. About 25% of the facility’s census was made up of Medicare patients at the time of the financing.   The 35-year loan came out to 80% loan-to-value, which puts the facility’s value at about $177,000 per bed. That is high even by Maryland standards, which typically surpasses most... Read More »
MONTICELLOAM Secures First Lien Financing for Florida Communities

MONTICELLOAM Secures First Lien Financing for Florida Communities

On the back of a busy spring, MONTICELLOAM, LLC and its affiliates announced yet another first lien debt financing for a senior care client. This transaction featured a $20.2 million loan that refinanced two assisted living/memory care communities in Florida. The properties total 171 beds. Their owner (and the borrower) is an experienced owner/operator with a current portfolio of more than 1,300 licensed beds.  This deal follows a Memphis-area refinance of two skilled nursing facilities, both a working capital loan and first-lien debt financing for three skilled nursing facilities in North Carolina and Kentucky, and a refinance of a Kansas senior care... Read More »
Skilled Nursing Values Drop In Last Four Quarters

Skilled Nursing Values Drop In Last Four Quarters

It still may be too early to tell, but according to our rolling-four quarter M&A statistics, it appears that skilled nursing values have started their descent in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. We say it may be too early simply because of how few transactions have been negotiated and closed since the onset of the virus, and we base our statistics on closed transactions, not just announced ones. The rolling-four quarter average also still consists of three quarters of prices that were not affected by the pandemic and that represent a larger share of the past 12 months of deals than normal because of the dearth of deals in Q2:2020.   Nevertheless, the average price... Read More »
Acts Retirement-Life Communities Disposes Non-Core Property

Acts Retirement-Life Communities Disposes Non-Core Property

Acts Retirement-Life Communities decided to shed a non-core property located near Baltimore, Maryland, working with Ben Firestone and Michael Segal of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors to get the deal done. Built in 1994, the property features 66 skilled nursing beds and 60 assisted living/memory care units in the town of Sykesville, about 20 miles west of Baltimore.   Acts picked up the property in May 2019 as part of a merger with Integrace, another not-for-profit senior care provider with four communities in Maryland. However, the community did not fit in with Acts’ CCRC business model and was slated for sale.  The Blueprint team procured 12 competitive offers during a 30-day... Read More »
Concerto Adds Dialysis Service In Missouri SNF

Concerto Adds Dialysis Service In Missouri SNF

Skilled nursing patients are obviously some of the most vulnerable to the COVID-19 virus, and providers have been working hard to minimize their exposure to it. In-house dialysis can be one service that helps that cause by bringing dialysis to the patients, rather than bringing the patients to a dialysis center and exposing them to different environments from the shuttle bus to the center itself three days a week. On top of that, in-house dialysis is just a better and less tiring experience for the patients themselves.  Concerto Renal Services expanded its in-house dialysis offering to a skilled nursing facility in Kansas City, Missouri that is owned by Ignite Medical Resorts. This... Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending July 24, 2020

Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending July 24, 2020

The summer M&A market continues its doldrums, but there were a few deals that closed. Check out our recent senior care M&A deal chart! Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice Icade9 skilled nursing facilities in Germany and France$167.9 million New York-based owner/operatorShire Senior LivingN/A Not disclosedSkilled nursing/assisted living facility in MD$20 million The Springs LivingLancaster Village$31.5... Read More »