• 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 »
2019 Spending Volume on Track to Beat 2018

2019 Spending Volume on Track to Beat 2018

In total, across the senior care spectrum, nearly $1.9 billion was spent on acquisitions in August, split between $986 million for seniors housing properties and $898 million for skilled nursing. Despite August’s M&A resurgence, that dollar volume falls short of the $2.1 billion spent in June and the $3.2 billion spent in July. It should be noted, however, that deal volume (rather than dollar volume) is a better indicator of the market’s health. Will it continue into September? So far in 2019, investors have already spent over $12 billion on senior care properties, and that’s just in deals with publicly disclosed prices. That puts the sector on good footing to surpass the 2018 total of... Read More »
Atlas Senior Living Acquires in Alabama and Georgia

Atlas Senior Living Acquires in Alabama and Georgia

Birmingham, Alabama-based Atlas Senior Living added two unique senior living communities to its growing portfolio, which the company expects to number 17 properties across the Southeast by the end of the year. Located in Savannah, Georgia and Madison, Alabama, the communities both feature 104 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. They were developed in the last couple of years by the seller, Miami Beach-based Lucky Shepherd. As with other Lucky Shepherd communities, they feature amenities like a greenhouse, over 15,000 square feet of spa and wellness space, farm-to-table dining and animal therapy. Ari Adlerstein and Ari Dobkin of Meridian Capital Group handled the... Read More »
Colliers Closes South Carolina Sale

Colliers Closes South Carolina Sale

Marcus Van Ameringen of Colliers International handled the sale of a well-operating senior care facility on the outskirts of Columbia, South Carolina. Despite being built in 1980, the 64-bed facility is dually certified for skilled nursing and assisted living. The previous owner regularly invested capex in the property and clearly managed it well, as evidenced by a Deficiency Free Survey 2016 and four-star rating from CMS. The implementation of PDPM should boost the SNF operations too, when it goes into effect next month. Mainstay Senior Living was the buyer, paying $2.4 million, or $37,500 per bed, at an 11.5% cap rate. They plan to add a dedicated post-acute rehabilitation unit, upgrade... Read More »
Ignite Medical Resorts Acquires Kansas City SNF

Ignite Medical Resorts Acquires Kansas City SNF

Ignite Medical Resorts is doubling down on the Kansas City skilled nursing market. Last week, the operator took over management of a 90-bed SNF on the Missouri side that was acquired by LTC Properties for $19.5 million, or $216,700 per bed. The facility was just built in 2018 and leased to Ignite under a 12-year term at an initial cash yield of 8.3%, escalating 2% annually, with two five-year renewals. Occupancy was already strong at 90%, and the facility generated more than $12 million in annualized revenues. It was also announced that Ignite would take over the operations of a 90-bed post-acute/skilled nursing facility in Independence, Missouri currently being developed by LTC and Avenue... Read More »
Diversicare Healthcare Delisted

Diversicare Healthcare Delisted

Just two days ago on these pages, we warned that the share price of Diversicare Healthcare Services was trending dangerously low. We weren’t kidding. The next day the shares were delisted from NASDAQ because they no longer met the minimum market value requirement of at least $35 million. That’s for sure, and with several days of double-digit price declines, the market cap of less than $10 million is just 30% of the required minimum. Management’s appeal to avoid the delisting decision was denied. The share price hit a 52-week low of $1.16 yesterday, down nearly 50% in just a few days. Unfortunately, it doesn’t take much when your shares are under $2.00 each. Just $70,000 of trades took the... Read More »
White Oak Healthcare REIT Acquires Again

White Oak Healthcare REIT Acquires Again

Earlier this week, we highlighted White Oak Healthcare REIT’s acquisition of four senior living properties in Arkansas (2), Florida and Pennsylvania, but the REIT’s recent run of activity doesn’t end there. White Oak also acquired two senior living communities in Loganville and Conyers, Georgia. Both considered to be value-add investments, the properties were built in the 1990s and total 156 independent living, 140 assisted living and 32 memory care units. They were operated by Senior Lifestyle and owned by an undisclosed private equity group, which hired Mike Garbers and Cody Tremper of JLL Capital Markets to market and sell the properties. White Oak’s joint venture partner on the deal,... Read More »
Capital Funding Group Funds Portopiccolo Purchase

Capital Funding Group Funds Portopiccolo Purchase

The Portopiccolo Group picked up another two skilled nursing facilities, following its acquisition of a North Carolina SNF earlier this summer. The most recent targets included a 130-bed pediatric and geriatric rehab facility in Dunn Loring, Virginia (Washington, D.C. MSA), and a 74-bed skilled nursing facility in Silver Spring, Maryland (also D.C. MSA). Accordius Health, an operating platform of Portopiccolo, will take over management of the facilities. To fund the acquisition, Portopiccolo obtained several tranches of financing, arranged, agented and participated by Capital Funding Group (CFG). Tim Eberhardt originated the transaction, which includes a $30.6 million senior loan, a $3.8... Read More »
Blueprint Finds Tenant for Toledo SNF

Blueprint Finds Tenant for Toledo SNF

The team at Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors showed their expertise in finding a new tenant for a 150-bed skilled nursing facility near Toledo, Ohio. Working on behalf of the landlord, a New York-based investment management firm that focuses on long-term care, Gideon Orion, Connor Doherty and Ryan Kelly were able to execute a change of operator less than 60 days from LOI to transition date. The new creditworthy operator entered into a multi-year, triple-net lease with plans to execute on a purchase option by 2021. In the process, the facility was also able to raise its Medicaid per-patient-day rate by about $23. That should make the transition even smoother. Read More »
Confluent Opens Five Communities Across the Country

Confluent Opens Five Communities Across the Country

The general consensus (with several dissenters) is that senior living construction has (finally) slowed down, after a long period of overdevelopment in many markets. Considering the downstream effects of this, from a tighter, more expensive labor market to lower occupancy, the slowdown is a good thing, especially since most of those elusive baby boomers won’t be moving into senior living any time soon. However, not every market experienced the woes of overdevelopment, and Confluent Senior Living announced that it has recently opened five senior living communities away from those biggest problem areas (were looking at you, Houston). Partnering with MorningStar Senior Living, Confluent... Read More »
The Labor Problem and Culture

The Labor Problem and Culture

As we approach Labor Day, we really need to work on solving the industry’s labor problems. I know it’s a bit of a cliché to talk about labor just before Labor Day, but what the Hell. To me, this is the most pressing issue for the entire seniors housing and care industry. Not only because labor represents well more than half of your costs, but because your employees are so critical in their interaction with your customers, both the residents and the family members. And to your success. But you know all this. Why is it that every time I walk into a hotel, from the bellhop to the desk clerk to the housekeeper walking down the hall, they all greet me with a smile and a hello? Are they... Read More »