• Las Vegas SNF Commands Premium

    We had heard of a high-end skilled nursing facility being marketed for sale in Las Vegas, Nevada, at a very high price for a few months now, and it appears that the sale has closed. Evans Senior Investments announced that it sold Sandstone Spring Valley, a 160-bed skilled nursing facility that was built just 10 years ago. It features an 80-unit... Read More »
  • Genesis Stalking Horse Raises Bid

    The stalking horse bidder for Genesis HealthCare’s 298 affiliated holding companies, ancillary businesses and insurance vehicles has upped its offer, and the deal is set for an approval hearing on December 10. Genesis, which previously held the title of largest skilled nursing operator in the country, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in... Read More »
  • SLIB Closes Strong SNF Sale in Colorado

    Two well-run skilled nursing facilities in Colorado sold with the help of Vince Viverito, Jason Punzel, Ryan Saul and Jeff Binder of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Located in Fort Collins and Windsor, the facilities were built in 1988 and 2018 and featured 445 beds in total. The facilities also comprised 18 total acres and nearly 270,000... Read More »
  • Ensign Buys Kansas City SNF

    The Ensign Group acquired a 45-bed skilled nursing facility in Kansas City, Kansas, that was in need of an operational turnaround. Built in 1974 with additions in 1983 and 1995, Medicalodges Post Acute Care is set on nearly 11 acres in a residential area. It was previously owned by a Kansas-based owner/operator that was divesting in order to... Read More »
  • Communities Pass Between Family Owner/Operators

    A multigenerational family owner/operator recently divested its well-occupied portfolio to a new family owner/operator in Beaverton, Oregon. The all-private pay communities consisted of a 183-unit full-continuum community opened in 2002 and a 58-unit assisted living community opened in 1996. Blueprint handled the sale and financing.  The... Read More »
Brookdale Finally Names a COO

Brookdale Finally Names a COO

A decade without a Chief Operating Officer? Maybe that is why Brookdale Senior Living has been suffering. But, they are finally filling the position. Mary Sue Patchett is taking on the role, effective December 1st. With Brookdale’s new regional operating model, which she helped redesign and implement, she will have six regional vice presidents, as well as leaders in clinical, dementia care, service alignment, resident and family engagement and experience and dining reporting to her.  Patchett brings 40 years of senior living operations experience, currently holding the title of Interim Executive Vice President – Community and Field Operations at Brookdale. She joined the company... Read More »
EVA Care Group Refinances California Portfolio

EVA Care Group Refinances California Portfolio

Helios Healthcare Advisors went to a private credit fund to secure a refinance for a senior care portfolio in California. Totaling 165 beds, there is a skilled nursing facility in San Bernardino and an assisted living community in Fillmore. The communities are owned by EVA Care Group, a Los Angeles-based national healthcare organization.  Both properties were previously mortgage free, creating an opportunity for EVA Care Group to unlock liquidity and strategically recapitalize the assets. EVA could have pursued a traditional working capital line, which would have introduced significant administrative burden and come with restrictive covenants that limit operator flexibility. But... Read More »
SLIB Sells a Class-A Mississippi Asset

SLIB Sells a Class-A Mississippi Asset

Senior Living Investment Brokerage facilitated the sale of a seniors housing community in the Gulfport/Biloxi area of Mississippi. Featuring 18 independent living, 60 assisted living and 62 memory care units, the community was built in phases between 2019 and 2025. It is located in the town of Ocean Springs with no major competitors in the local market offering a continuum of care on one campus. The property was stabilized at the time of the sale. A Mississippi-based partnership developed the asset and chose to divest in order to exit the seniors housing sector. The buyer is a Southeast-based regional owner/operator with an existing presence in the state. Daniel Geraghty and Bradley... Read More »
Marx Development Group Finalizes West Virginia Acquisition

Marx Development Group Finalizes West Virginia Acquisition

Lument Securities has closed the sale of four West Virginia-owned skilled nursing facilities to Marx Development Group (MDG). MDG subsidiary Majestic Care is taking over operations at the facilities in a smooth transition. The deal closed on October 31. Managing Director and Head of Mergers & Acquisitions Laca Wong-Hammond orchestrated the sale on behalf of its client, the state of West Virginia. There was an extensive marketing campaign that resulted in an active bidding environment, with over 140 parties indicating interest, 62 moving forward to signing non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), and nearly a dozen parties submitting letters of intent. MDG was selected due to its experience,... Read More »
Florida Portfolio Receives Financing

Florida Portfolio Receives Financing

Dwight Mortgage Trust, the affiliate REIT of Dwight Capital, provided a $120 million bridge loan to finance five skilled nursing facilities in Florida comprising 795 beds. The debt was used to refinance the 120-bed Parklands Care Center & Rehab in Gainesville, and the 120-bed Riverwood Healthcare & Rehab Center in Starke. It also funded the acquisition of the 299-bed Balanced Healthcare in St. Petersburg, the 76-bed Gulfside Health & Rehab Center in Clearwater, the 180-bed Lake Placid Health & Rehab Center in Lake Placid. To further support the facilities’ operations, Dwight Healthcare Funding also provided a $20 million working capital line of credit in conjunction with... Read More »
Seller Divests and Exits Seniors Housing Space

Seller Divests and Exits Seniors Housing Space

Brooks Minford of Berkadia sold a seniors housing campus in central Florida, in the town of Lakeland between Orlando and Tampa. Built in 2014 and 2017, the community features 156 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. It was well occupied at 90%.  The seller, which is focused on the retail and multifamily sectors but had been involved in seniors housing for more than a decade, wanted to exit the space. Berkadia had previously arranged financing for them. Minford sold the community to a family office with an operating partner. The purchase price was not disclosed. Read More »
Not-For-Profit Completes Its Largest Senior Living Financing

Not-For-Profit Completes Its Largest Senior Living Financing

Ziegler announced the pricing of Horizon House’s $600.0 million Series 2025AB bonds through the Washington State Housing Finance Commission. The bonds are set to close in December. This financing is Horizon House’s largest senior living financing completed to date.  Horizon House is a Washington 501(c)(3) organization that was established in 1961 to develop, own and operate seniors housing communities. Today, the organization owns and operates a CCRC in Seattle, Washington, that offers 377 independent living apartments and 90 assisted living apartments including memory care services. The bonds will be used to fund the new West Tower, a 33-story independent living high-rise consisting... Read More »
60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: You’ve Got To Be Kidding

60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: You’ve Got To Be Kidding

Sadly, we are not kidding. President Trump has shown his true colors, and his true loyalty to the almighty dollar, with yet another pardon of one of the bad boys of senior care. But this bad boy is the worst of the group. We are referring to the just announced pardon of criminal Joseph Schwartz, the former owner of Skyline Health. Several months ago, after his last senior care pardon, we ended a story with, who’s next, Joseph Schwartz? We were kidding, but not laughing now. Not only did he commit a nearly $40 million fraud against us, the taxpayers, but he also put the well-being of several thousand patients in his nursing homes in jeopardy as he sucked as much cash out of them as he could... Read More »
Publicly Traded REIT Divests Seniors Housing Portfolio

Publicly Traded REIT Divests Seniors Housing Portfolio

A Wisconsin-based developer sold its five seniors housing properties in the Badger State to LTC Properties. Tukka Properties has a longstanding relationship with Walker & Dunlop, which had secured development debt, equity and permanent financing for the assets over the years and had also sold a Tukka-developed property to Welltower in 2021 (see details of that deal here).  Now, the Walker & Dunlop team led by Alex Vice and Matthew Lund sold four properties, with a fifth property sold by Jason Punzel, Jake Anderson and Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Totaling 520 units, the five communities feature a combination of independent living, assisted living and memory... Read More »
Sale Revives Stalled Seniors Housing Development

Sale Revives Stalled Seniors Housing Development

Blueprint closed on the sale of a partially developed seniors housing community in Pearland, Texas. Originally planned as a 198-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community on 9.6 acres, the project was approximately 60% complete when development stalled. Blueprint targeted seniors housing operators and developers, as well as multifamily groups exploring adaptive reuse options. After a years-long process and multiple offers, including two that tied up the asset prior to closing, Moody National Companies emerged as the ultimate buyer. Moody is a Houston-based developer with a strong track record in multifamily investments. While initially exploring alternate uses for... Read More »
MONTICELLOAM Closes One of Its Largest Financings

MONTICELLOAM Closes One of Its Largest Financings

In one of the largest financings the firm has ever completed, MONTICELLOAM, LLC, along with firm affiliates, funded $470.5 million in total bridge and working capital financing for a sixteen-facility skilled nursing portfolio. The sponsor group, which owns and operates over 200 skilled nursing facilities across the country, used the $455.5 million bridge financing to refinance existing debt on the Virginia assets. In addition, MONTICELLOAM arranged a $15.0 million working capital line of credit for the borrower to manage the daily operational needs of over 2,000 licensed beds.  In another financing, MONTICELLOAM and firm affiliates provided a $28.5 million senior bridge loan for two... Read More »