• Regional Owner/Operator Enters New State

    A regional owner/operator looking to enter the state of Indiana acquired Smith Farms Manor, an independent living community in Auburn, about 30 miles south of the Michigan border. Built in 1998, the community features 51 units and is well maintained. It sits on an attractive four-acre campus down the street from Parkview DeKalb Hospital and off... Read More »
  • Skilled Nursing Portfolio Gets New Operator

    Evans Senior Investments secured a new lease for a skilled nursing portfolio in Tennessee on behalf of an institutional owner. The portfolio features four assets and was operating below 70% occupancy with margins under 10%. Despite that performance, ESI secured a lease $3 million above in-place cash flow, reflecting the operational upside that... Read More »
  • Seniors Housing and Care M&A Remains Elevated in Q1:26

    The number of publicly announced seniors housing and care acquisitions in the first quarter of 2026 reached 231 deals, based on new acquisition data from LevinPro LTC. This represents a 19.8% decrease from the 288 transactions disclosed in the fourth quarter of 2025, but a 25.5% increase from the 184 deals in Q1:25.   “It was always going... Read More »
  • Clarion Acquires Again in Colorado

    Two years after opening a 160-unit seniors housing community in Centennial, Colorado (Denver MSA), MorningStar Senior Living announced an expanding relationship with Clarion Partners, a leading real estate investment company and specialty investment manager of Franklin Templeton, in its acquisition of MorningStar at Holly Park. The community... Read More »
  • Brookdale’s Summer Test Ahead

    Brookdale Senior Living reported its March occupancy results, and it unfortunately took another step in the wrong direction. We will get a better read when peers report first-quarter results and when NIC MAP releases its next tranche of occupancy data, but at this point, it seems as though Brookdale will need a particularly strong performance... Read More »
Brookdale Expands Dialysis Services at Four Texas CCRCs

Brookdale Expands Dialysis Services at Four Texas CCRCs

Brookdale Senior Living announced that the company would be partnering with Dialyze Direct to provide on-site dialysis at four of its CCRC campuses in Texas. Two of the locations began offering the service earlier this year, but one campus in Houston will open a Dialyze Direct suite with eight chairs this week, and the other property in Austin will start the service soon. This is just one of several expansions of on-site dialysis into senior care facilities that we have seen recently. Azria Health, which just bought a portfolio of 15 skilled nursing facilities in the Midwest from Senior Housing Properties Trust, also recently partnered with Concerto Renal Services to offer dialysis to its... Read More »
Spectrum Retirement Communities Gets New Investment Partner

Spectrum Retirement Communities Gets New Investment Partner

We heard many at the NIC Conference earlier this month talking about the abundance of capital and new capital providers in the senior living market. Some were optimistic, while others were lamenting it. Well, another alternative investment management firm has entered the senior living market. Oak Brook, Illinois-based Inland Private Capital Corporation (IPC) announced it has entered into a strategic relationship with Spectrum Retirement Communities, LLC to acquire, own and manage senior living communities across the country. Phil Shapiro Senior Living, LLC serves as IPC’s senior living advisor and was key in initiating and cultivating the relationship between them and Spectrum. IPC, which... Read More »
CareTrust REIT Adds Escondido Community to Portfolio

CareTrust REIT Adds Escondido Community to Portfolio

San Clemente, California-based CareTrust REIT acquired a memory care community in nearby Escondido (located about 20 miles north of San Diego) and retained the in-place operator Bayshire, LLC, which has managed the property for the seller since 2016. Originally built in 1981 as a skilled nursing facility, the property was converted to memory care and extensively renovated in 2015. It now includes 96 licensed beds in 52 units. Including about $100,000 in transaction costs, the REIT paid $12.6 million, or $242,300 per unit, for the recently-renovated community. Cushman & Wakefield’s team that includes Rick Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig, Dan Baker, Tim Hosmer and Bailey Nygard... Read More »
SunTrust Bank Refinances Runk & Pratt Community

SunTrust Bank Refinances Runk & Pratt Community

Runk & Pratt, a family-owned operator of senior living communities in western Virginia, refinanced its 171-unit independent/assisted living community in Lynchburg with the help of SunTrust Bank. This isn’t the first transaction between the two. SunTrust had funded Runk & Pratt’s acquisition of the property in 2016 with a short-term bridge loan. Built in 2014, the community has been historically well occupied and generates strong cash flow. Taking out the acquisition debt, it received a $30.9 million Fannie Mae loan, with no recourse, a fixed rate for 10 years and a 30-year amortization schedule. Joshua Hausfeld handled the transaction for SunTrust. Just a year earlier, SunTrust... Read More »
Acquisition Market Remains Strong

Acquisition Market Remains Strong

Transaction volume is still running ahead of last year’s record, fueled by liquidity and low interest rates. As of yesterday, seniors housing and care acquisition volume was still running ahead of last year’s record-setting pace. We are well over 300 transactions so far in 2019, and September is already looking to beat last year’s September, with several days to go. The question still remains, how long can this go on? The simple answer is as long as liquidity in the market remains at current levels. And that liquidity will remain as long as returns stay higher than alternative investments. They have, and low interest rates have not hurt.  The other question is, when will the slow... Read More »
Senior Housing Properties Trust Divests More Five Star SNFs

Senior Housing Properties Trust Divests More Five Star SNFs

Senior Housing Properties Trust (SNH) continued its Five Star Senior Living (FVE) portfolio restructuring with the sale of 15 skilled nursing facilities in the Midwest. Mike Segal, Ben Firestone and Steve Thomes of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors handled the transaction for SNH, which made a strategic decision to sell the entire portfolio in one deal to one buyer. The sale was part of SNH’s previously announced disposition plan to sell up to $900 million of assets in connection with the FVE restructuring. The portfolio consists of 10 facilities in Nebraska, four in Iowa and one in Kansas, and sold for a combined $8 million. According to FVE’s 2018 Annual Report, the Nebraska... Read More »
Long-Time Lessee Acquires SNF Portfolio

Long-Time Lessee Acquires SNF Portfolio

To say that the buyer of a portfolio of nine skilled nursing facilities located across the eastern United States was familiar with the properties may be an understatement. That is because the Tennessee-based operator has leased the buildings since 2004 and finally jumped on the opportunity to purchase the real estate. Located in Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Tennessee and Virginia, the portfolio totals 1,167 operating beds with an average occupancy of 85.8%. To fund the acquisition, the buyer turned to Berkadia, which served as lead lender for a $52.2 million bridge-to-HUD loan for seven of the properties. The other two properties received a $24.6 million mini-perm loan through a bank... Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield’s Latest Recap

Cushman & Wakefield’s Latest Recap

The Tampa-based Cushman & Wakefield Senior Housing team of David Kliewer, Paul Carr and Allen McMurtry followed up on their sale of a 78-bed memory care community in Florida for $19.5 million (as reported in The SeniorCare Investor earlier this month) with the recapitalization of a 114-unit senior living community also located in the southeast. Opened in 2017, the property features 28 independent living, 68 assisted living and 18 memory care units. Current occupancy is around 65%, but no other details were disclosed. Read More »
Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending September 20, 2019

Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending September 20, 2019

Check out our recent senior care M&A deals. Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice Covenant Living Communities and ServicesInverness Village$41 million Schonberg CareSt. Margaret’s at Belleville Assisted LivingN/A Cedar CommunitiesBrookside of Commerce & Brookside of Stone Mountain$9.75 million Opal Senior LivingBristol Terrace Assisted Living$4.05... Read More »
MedCore Wraps Up Southwest Portfolio Acquisition

MedCore Wraps Up Southwest Portfolio Acquisition

MedCore Partners finalized its five-property portfolio acquisition of assisted living/memory care assets in the Southwest, originally announced in February. Back then, MedCore together with its joint venture partner Trinity Private Equity Group (TNRG) acquired four newly built communities in Arizona (3) and Utah with 409 total units for approximately $98 million, or $239,600 per unit. Watermark Retirement Communities took over management of each of the properties, which were still in lease-up. SunTrust Bank provided the senior loan for the acquisition. Now, MedCore, Trinity and TNRG Development closed on the fifth property in the portfolio, a just-opened senior living community with 22... Read More »
Schonberg Care Invests in New Orleans

Schonberg Care Invests in New Orleans

Schonberg Care, a family-owned operator of senior living communities in the Southeast, recently added an assisted living/memory care community in New Orleans to its growing portfolio. Originally built in 1898 as the Belleville Elementary School, the building was converted to senior living in 1989. It currently has 53 assisted living and memory care units ranging from 300 to 800 square feet. Units offer a kitchenette, living room, private bath and separate bedroom. There is also a courtyard patio with fountains and tropical landscaping. Schonberg acquired the community earlier this summer and has been hard at work ever since, overseeing a $1 million renovation of the property that was just... Read More »