• 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 »
Local Doctor Invests in Iowa Assisted Living

Local Doctor Invests in Iowa Assisted Living

Not unlike the 2020 Democratic field, Nick Cacciabando and Jeff Binder of Senior Living Investment Brokerage descended on Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to close the sale of an assisted living community. Originally built in 1910 as a private residence, the community was renovated, expanded and converted to assisted living in 1995, and now features 42 units. Currently, it operates at a 9% margin on over $1.6 million of revenues, with an occupancy around 82%. Rents could be increased, but only by so much given the community’s relative age and middle-income market. The selling entity was a group of aging, local investors looking to realize their investment objectives. They sold the asset to a local... Read More »
Cambridge Refinances Service-Rich SNF

Cambridge Refinances Service-Rich SNF

Hymie Barber of Cambridge Realty Capital Companies arranged a HUD LEAN loan to refinance a 131-bed skilled nursing facility in West Orange, New Jersey. The fully amortized, 33-year loan was arranged for a New Jersey LLC and replaced existing debt. The facility offers a full suite of skilled care services, including orthopedic rehabilitation, a congestive heart failure program, wound care, TPN, IV Therapy, trauma rehabilitation, cardiac drip, stroke care and rehabilitation, tracheostomy care, post-surgical care, physical therapy, patient-controlled analgesic pump pain management, cardiac care congestive heart failure program and respite care, to name a few. There are also several unique... Read More »
Welltower Makes Major M&A Moves

Welltower Makes Major M&A Moves

Welltower made M&A waves in its latest earnings report, announcing a major disposition of its Benchmark Senior Living assets but countering that with several large acquisitions and development agreements. The company signaled that despite the Benchmark sale, it is not lowering its position in the senior living market, offsetting the 48 properties sold with a total of 46 acquired, not including the developments promised in a couple of massive pipeline agreements. The big news was the Benchmark sale, which consisted of all 48 assisted living properties and 4,137 total units located throughout New England, or 100% of the Welltower-owned portfolio. The transaction was structured as a... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop’s New Seniors Housing Team

Walker & Dunlop’s New Seniors Housing Team

Walker & Dunlop expanded its senior care investment sales business in a big way, bringing in Managing Directors Mark Myers and Josh Jandris and Vice Presidents Jordyn Berger, Alex Vice and Mike Surak of IPA Seniors Housing, a division of Marcus & Millichap. The Chicago-based team will build on W&D’s existing multifamily property sales platform by bringing a new focus on seniors housing and skilled nursing property sales, building on W&D’s existing multifamily platform. They will also work closely with Walker & Dunlop’s senior housing financing group, which originated over $900 million in debt financing in 2018. Prior to making this move, the IPA team had closed over... Read More »
CBRE Closes Two Bank Financings for Senior Living Clients

CBRE Closes Two Bank Financings for Senior Living Clients

Aron Will of CBRE ended July with two bank financings for senior living clients in three states. First, in Texas, he was joined by Austin Sacco and Adam Mincberg to refinance two 76-unit assisted living/memory care communities in Boerne (San Antonio MSA) and Round Rock (Austin MSA). Both properties were developed by a joint venture between Harrison Street Real Estate Capital and Franklin Development Properties in 2017, and have been managed by Franklin Development’s operating affiliate. To refinance the original construction debt, CBRE secured a three-year, floating-rate loan with 24 months of interest only from a national bank. Then, that CBRE trio was joined by Tim Root to refinance... Read More »
PE Group Gets Financing from BMO Harris Bank

PE Group Gets Financing from BMO Harris Bank

BMO Harris Bank’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance team supported a private equity group’s acquisition of a 132-unit seniors housing community in Bloomington, Indiana, by acting as sole lender of a $19.5 million senior secured term loan. Midwest operator Arrow Senior Living will be the new fee-based manager of the three-year old community, adding more dining services and enhanced social events in addition to the existing amenities like complementary chauffeured transportation, spacious courtyards and a fitness center, among others. Arrow manages each of its 13 communities in partnership with its parent company, Turnaround Solutions LLC, an affiliated seniors housing consulting company that... Read More »
TMC Financing Arranges SBA Loan

TMC Financing Arranges SBA Loan

The long-time operator/lessee of a small six-bed assisted living community in La Jolla, California was able to secure SBA 504 financing to fund his purchase of the property for $1.5 million, or $250,000 per bed. After a 15% down payment, TMC Financing arranged about 35% of the total transaction cost with a $537,250 SBA loan, which came with a below-market interest rate fixed for 25 years. First Choice Bank provided the remaining financing. Read More »
Land and Buildings Strikes Again

Land and Buildings Strikes Again

Still trying to get two board nominees, Land and Buildings steps up its criticism and need for change. Well, well, well. Jonathan Litt of Land and Buildings is at it again, this time with a six-page letter to Brookdale Senior Living shareholders, eviscerating Brookdale’s management and board, past and present, for the company’s severe underperformance over the past 10 years. So, what else is new? Look, management and much of the board has changed and the only ones who can be blamed for the disastrous Emeritus acquisition are the old management, the former board and perhaps their advisors, who should have known better.  Highlighted in his letter was the underperformance of Brookdale... Read More »
Locust Point Starts Equity Financing Program

Locust Point Starts Equity Financing Program

Debt is certainly plentiful these days in the seniors housing and care market, leading us to a record level of M&A and investment in the industry. But what about equity? That can still trip up investors looking to purchase or develop a seniors housing property, especially if they have to raise it among family and friends, or from their own personal funds. But alternative asset manager Locust Point Capital is announcing its own project equity financing program for the seniors housing industry. The program will provide owner/operators with between $1 million and $10 million of equity capital for the construction, substantial renovation and/or acquisition of independent living, assisted... Read More »
Meridian Capital Group On Track for Another Big Year

Meridian Capital Group On Track for Another Big Year

The seniors housing and healthcare team at Meridian Capital Group has already had quite the year, reaching $1.3 billion in closed transactions so far. That total is spread across 41 deals in 22 states. Well done to Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin and Josh Simpson. Some of the recent highlights include an $80 million acquisition financing and a $7.5 million AR line closed for five skilled nursing facilities totaling 740 beds in Pennsylvania. The acquisition loans didn’t stop there, with the team also arranging $38.5 million in financing for a borrower acquiring three SNFs and refinancing five additional facilities totaling 840 beds in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Then, in Massachusetts, the buyer of... Read More »
Local Doctor Buys Rural Texas Assisted Living

Local Doctor Buys Rural Texas Assisted Living

Using his expertise in the Texas M&A market, Matthew Alley of Senior Living Investment Brokerage sold an assisted living community in rural east Texas for $2.8 million, or $56,000 per unit. Originally built in 1994, the 50-unit community is the only licensed assisted living property in Franklin County. It includes 68 licensed Type A beds, and at the time of marketing, it was about 58% occupied, generating about $50,000 annually in EBITDAR on over $840,000 in revenues. Its independent owner/operator was looking to exit the seniors housing industry, ultimately selling the community to a local doctor. That medical knowledge can’t hurt in turning the community around. Read More »