• Ensign Makes a Splash in Texas

    The Ensign Group closed out April with a bang, announcing the acquisition of the real estate and operations of 17 skilled nursing facilities spread across Texas, plus the real estate of two seniors housing communities in Wisconsin.  The Texas portfolio is majority-SNF, with 2,080 skilled nursing beds. There are also some seniors housing... Read More »
  • Public REIT Sells Value-Add Community to Joint Venture

    Kandu Capital, a family office specializing in real estate and healthcare, and its operating company, Bloom Senior Living, acquired an assisted living/memory care community in Ohio after strategically divesting a number of skilled nursing, behavioral health and seniors housing assets at healthy valuations. Those dispositions were initially... Read More »
  • Not-for-Profit Divests Its CCRC Portfolio to Another Not-for-Profit

    A portfolio of CCRCs in South-Central Pennsylvania changed hands from one faith-based not-for-profit organization to another, with Toby Siefert and Dave Balow of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handling the process. The pair represented the seller, SpiriTrust Lutheran, an 80-year-old operator based in York, Pennsylvania, in the sale of six... Read More »
  • AL/MC Community Trending Towards Stabilization Sells

    Blueprint’s suite of services was on display in the sale and financing of an assisted living/memory care community in Fredericksburg, Texas. Built in 2018, The Villages of Windcrest was performing well at the time of marketing, and was trending towards stabilization. Newer, performing properties are getting the most interest in the M&A market... Read More »
  • Montgomery Intermediary Group Brings on New Advisor

    Continuing its momentum in 2026, Montgomery Intermediary Group (MIG) announced that it hired Colin Thomas, CFA as an investment sales advisor. In this role, Thomas will lead seniors housing and skilled nursing transactions across Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana, expanding MIG’s coverage and capabilities in these markets. Thomas’s... Read More »
Contemporary Nails Nashville Acquisition Financing

Contemporary Nails Nashville Acquisition Financing

Contemporary Healthcare Capital helped affiliates of Opal Senior Living to acquire a 115-bed assisted living/memory care community in Nashville, Tennessee. Opal received a $500,000 mezzanine loan from Contemporary and an accompanying senior loan from CoastalStates Bank. In addition to funding the acquisition, the combined financing also provided for about $300,000 in additional property renovations and upgrades. Previously a skilled nursing facility until it was substantially renovated and converted to assisted living, the community features 60 AL beds and 55 MC beds, and it is one of only two senior living properties in the Nashville metro area to accept Medicaid waiver... Read More »
Blueprint’s Deal Bonanza

Blueprint’s Deal Bonanza

Was it just us, or did it seem like every time we left a meeting at the NIC Conference in Chicago last week, there was another Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announcement in our inbox? We exaggerate…a little. The firm announced four deals during the conference, starting with one that we had learned about last month that saw Regional Health Properties sell four skilled nursing facilities in Alabama, Georgia and Oklahoma to affiliates of MED Healthcare Partners for $28.5 million. The existing operators were retained at all locations. Brooks Blackmon, Trent Gherardini and Ben Firestone led the way on the deal. Then, in Inman, South Carolina, Blueprint sold two skilled nursing... Read More »
Pardoll Closes Another Personal Care Sale in Atlanta Area

Pardoll Closes Another Personal Care Sale in Atlanta Area

Marcus & Millichap’s Mike Pardoll sold yet another small personal care community in Georgia to Affinity Living Group, following his sales last month of a 23-unit property in Bainbridge (for $1.2 million, or $52,200 per unit) and a 36-unit community in Vidalia (for $1.3 million, or $36,100 per unit). Representing a private investor, he has most recently sold a 30-unit personal care community in the town of Dunwoody (north of Atlanta). Built in 1990, the property (which was operated by Sunrise Senior Living until 2010) was struggling with occupancy at 67% and had negative cash flow at the time of the sale on under $600,000 of revenues. Rents averaged about $2,800 per month, which was low... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Closes Two Sales

Evans Senior Investments Closes Two Sales

Evans Senior Investments announced a couple of transactions last week. First, the firm represented a regional owner/operator in the sale of two senior living/skilled nursing properties in Michigan. Each community had positive cash flow at the time of sale, but with the potential for some improvement under new ownership. It should help that 100% of the senior living census at both properties was 100% private pay, and the skilled nursing featured a high mix of Medicare residents. Then, Evans headed to Anderson, South Carolina to sell a struggling skilled nursing facility on behalf of its single-asset independent owner/operator. Built in 1965, with additions in 1974 and 1980, the 181-bed... Read More »
Access Industries Acquires JEA Senior Living

Access Industries Acquires JEA Senior Living

Access Industries, a private industrial group also with a focus on institutional real estate announced its acquisition of a long-time owner/operator in the senior living space, JEA Senior Living. While the companies have combined, their relationship began earlier this year when Access purchased 10 of JEA’s senior living communities in Washington, Oregon, Texas, Tennessee and Indiana. JEA’s current portfolio numbers some 50 properties across the U.S., with a focus on memory care. Other properties are still in various stages of development. The Access/JEA combination should prime JEA for further expansion (primarily through acquisitions but some developments, as well) and allow the operator... Read More »
Northwind Group and KeyBank Finance Peace Capital Acquisition

Northwind Group and KeyBank Finance Peace Capital Acquisition

Peace Capital and its affiliated operator Complete Care Management acquired a senior care portfolio number some 930 beds in Ocean County, New Jersey, for approximately $169 million, or about $181,700 per bed. The financing for the deal came from a couple different sources. As part of its effort to deploy up to $1 billion into senior living and healthcare properties, New York City-based private equity firm Northwind Group provided a $26 million mezzanine loan for the acquisition. Meanwhile, KeyBank Real Estate Capital underwrote and closed the $131 million in senior financing and expects to lead the refinance of the portfolio with HUD debt. Jonathan Slusher and Ran Eliasaf led the mezzanine... Read More »
Persimmon Refinances Pennsylvania Portfolio

Persimmon Refinances Pennsylvania Portfolio

Patrick Shearer of KeyBank Real Estate Capital’s Commercial Mortgage Group secured $28 million of HUD financing for three seniors housing communities in Pennsylvania owned by Baltimore-based Persimmon Ventures, LLC and operated by Live Cardinal. All three communities offer assisted living and memory care services. Built in 1994 in Landisville, the largest property has 135 beds in 115 units and received a $16 million loan. A 59-unit community, which was built in 1987 in the town of Millersville, got an $8 million loan. The smallest community has just 45 units but 85 total beds. Built in 2000, it was acquired from The Hollinger Group for $3.8 million, or $84,400 per unit, at a 9.2% cap rate.... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Secures Another Agemark/Protective Life Financing

Lancaster Pollard Secures Another Agemark/Protective Life Financing

Grant Goodman, Doug Harper and Casey Moore of Lancaster Pollard worked on behalf of Agemark Senior Living Communities to refinance its 36-unit memory care community in Kearney, Nebraska. Placed with Protective Life Insurance Company, the $8 million term loan also allowed Agemark to extract equity from the property. The parties involved in this transaction have been seeing a lot of each other in the past year. Lancaster Pollard and Agemark have worked together to close three transactions through Protective Life in that time. Most recently, Agemark refinanced two other Nebraska memory care communities with 10-year, fixed-rate financings. Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield Sells Stand-Alone Memory Care

Cushman & Wakefield Sells Stand-Alone Memory Care

Allen McMurtry, David Kliewer and Paul Carr of Cushman & Wakefield sold a 78-bed stand-alone memory care community on Florida’s east coast for $19.5 million, or $250,000 per bed.  The community originally opened with 66 MC beds in 2015 and then recently added 12 more beds to bring the total to 78 beds. Occupancy is over 95% and there is additional land to add assisted or independent living. Who says stand-alone memory care does not work? This one clearly does. The buyer was a Florida-based private equity investor. Read More »
Welcome To NIC

Welcome To NIC

As more than 3,000 people descend on NIC in Chicago this week, we hope talk will also focus on operations and ideas and not just investments. Good luck with that one. If you can believe it, this is my 29th consecutive Fall NIC Conference. There may be 15 of us who can claim that. But boy has it changed from the days they were trying to educate capital so money would be invested in senior living. Today, there is certainly no shortage of capital. While NIC is known as a deal-making conference, there should be a lot of other things on attendees’ minds. Are they talking about affordable senior living? What about penetration rates, which seem to have stalled in the 10% to 11% range? We assume... Read More »