• Cap Rates Continue Compression in JLL’s Investor Survey

    Ben Swett, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, sat down with Bryan Lockard, Executive Managing Director of JLL’s Value and Risk Advisory, to discuss the results of JLL’s recently published 2026 Seniors Housing & Care Investor Survey and Trends. They also covered some major topics heading into NIC in Nashville. Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: Burning Questions for NIC Attendees

    This time next week, we’ll be heading out of Nashville from the Spring NIC conference likely buoyed by the overwhelmingly positive mood we’re expecting from most of our industry friends. It’s hard not to be optimistic when occupancy and margins are increasing to healthy levels nationally, and show no signs of stopping, when liquidity is... Read More »
  • Janus Living’s IPO Results

    Janus Living has completed its initial public offering, raising $878 million after deducting the underwriting discount and estimated expenses payable by the company. The REIT sold 48.3 million shares of its Class A-1 common stock at $20 per share, including the full exercise of the underwriters’ 6.3 million-share option. It made its New York... Read More »
  • VIUM Capital Secures Slew of HUD and Bridge Financings

    VIUM Capital recently closed a series of healthcare and seniors housing real estate financings across multiple states, spanning both HUD-insured loans and bridge executions for skilled nursing, assisted living and memory care assets. The largest loan was a $56.4 million HUD financing for a 325-bed skilled nursing facility in Florida. The facility... Read More »
  • Several Senior Care Finances Close

    Jeremy Warren of Montgomery Intermediary Group reported an active end of winter, closing a handful of debt transactions for clients in Illinois and Kentucky. First, he helped the owner of a 77-bed skilled nursing facility in Kentucky refinance existing acquisition debt following a successful operational turnaround. Since acquiring the facility... Read More »
Affordable Seniors Project Secures Construction Financing 

Affordable Seniors Project Secures Construction Financing 

KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment provided a $13 million construction loan to finance the construction of Hawthorne Heights, an 86-unit affordable seniors housing project in Gainesville, Florida. KeyBank Commercial Mortgage Group (CMG) also arranged a $6.53 million Freddie Mac permanent loan for the project. Hawthorne Heights will serve seniors aged 62 and up with five apartment homes specifically set aside for individuals with special needs. The five-story building will be constructed on a 2.9-acre site. The development will set aside three apartments for households earning 22% of the area median income, nine apartments for households earning 40% or below the AMI and 74... Read More »
Ziegler Closes Bonds for Indiana Not-For-Profit

Ziegler Closes Bonds for Indiana Not-For-Profit

Ziegler closed Greenwood Village South’s $27.85 million Series 2025A bonds, $7.4 million Series C-1 (TEMPSSM-50) bonds, and $10.6 million Series C-2 (TEMPSSM-85) bonds issued through the Indiana Finance Authority for the Senior Living Finance Practice. The transaction also includes $25 million of Series 2025B Bank Direct Placement bonds, which closed with the Series 2025A, C1, and C-2 bonds (together totaling $70.85 million and collectively referred to as the Series 2025 bonds). Westminster Village Greenwood, Inc., doing business as Greenwood Village South (GVS), is an Indiana not-for-profit that owns/operates a Type-B CCRC in Greenwood, Indiana, just south of Indianapolis. The community... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: Heading Down to Austin

60 Seconds with Swett: Heading Down to Austin

We are looking forward to flyin’ down to Austin next week for the NIC Fall Conference, as we are anticipating a very positive mood among the attendees. That is because M&A activity is high and healthy. The capital markets keep improving from a deal terms and liquidity perspective. The promise of a 25-basis point interest rate cut is probably boosting spirits more than actually making much of a financial impact on the cost of borrowing.  Meanwhile the operating environment continues to make steady progress, and property values are on the rise, at least according to our latest valuation stats available on LevinPro LTC, which could entice more sellers into the market with their... Read More »

Ignite Medical Resort Chesterton Featured in LevinPro Database

Ignite Medical Resort Chesterton, a Medicare-licensed private skilled nursing facility situated at 2775 Village Pt in Chesterton, Indiana, has been linked to a merger or acquisition according to the LevinPro M&A deal database. LevinPro is known for tracking M&A activity across more than a dozen healthcare sectors ranging from hospitals and home health to medical real estate and biopharma. They have profiled the transaction involving Ignite Medical Resort Chesterton in their comprehensive deal database, readily available to subscribers. Throughout its operation, LevinPro has diligently tracked thousands of deals in the skilled nursing facility sector, showcasing its expertise and... Read More »
Harrison Street Divests Long Island Portfolio

Harrison Street Divests Long Island Portfolio

Harrison Street Asset Management sold five Class-A seniors housing communities throughout central Long Island and New York in a transaction valued at more than $600 million. Newmark handled the deal.  The portfolio comprises five assets, developed in partnership with B2K Development between 2016 and 2022. The communities have delivered strong operating performance. The Long Island Business News identified the five properties as part of the “Bristal” brand of assisted living communities, including Bristal Assisted Living in Mount Sinai, Bristal in West Babylon, Bristal in Holtsville, Bristal in Bethpage and Bristal in Jericho, all totaling more than 850 units.  That would put the... Read More »
Mid-Year 2025 Valuation Stats Update Webinar

Mid-Year 2025 Valuation Stats Update Webinar

The SeniorCare Investor hosted its Mid-Year 2025 Valuation Stats Update webinar, sponsored by HealthTrust. Managing Editor Ben Swett moderated the discussion and presented the latest M&A and valuation statistics derived from LevinPro LTC’s proprietary database, updated through the most recent four-quarter period. He was joined by panelists Colleen Blumenthal, COO of Healthtrust, Aron Will, Vice Chairman of Capital Markets at CBRE, and Travis Wiebe, Asset Manager at AEW, for a conversation on current trends in the market, potential pitfalls to avoid in the dealmaking process and 2026 M&A strategies. Read More »
Vacant SNF Trades Hands in Missouri

Vacant SNF Trades Hands in Missouri

Blueprint was engaged by a regional owner/operator, subject to approval by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York, to conduct a comprehensive marketing process for the sale of Liberty Health and Wellness in Liberty, Missouri. Formerly a 143-bed, highly-profitable and well-occupied skilled nursing facility, the asset encountered regulatory and survey challenges that led to its decertification from CMS and the Missouri Department of Health and Service Services. Shortly after the marketing campaign launched in March, the facility closed. Blueprint repositioned the 75-unit facility offering to appeal to skilled nursing, behavioral health and other alternative-use... Read More »
Berkadia Arranges Bridge Loan

Berkadia Arranges Bridge Loan

Steven Muth, Austin Sacco and Garrett Sacco of Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare recently utilized Berkadia’s bridge lending program to secure $10 million in bridge financing for a repeat client Pacific Northwest sponsor.  The loan proceeds were used to retire existing debt on a 60-unit memory care community in Sequim, Washington, while also returning equity to the sponsor. At underwriting, the community was 87% occupied with a LTV of 57.5%. The 24-month, interest-only bridge loan was structured to meet HUD’s debt seasoning requirements, with Berkadia anticipating permanent HUD financing for the facility in early 2027. Read More »
South Carolina IL/AL Community Gets New Owner

South Carolina IL/AL Community Gets New Owner

Following its involvement in the sale of Church Hill Village in Newtown, Connecticut, to National Development and Benchmark Senior Living (plus Harrison Street’s sale of a Long Island portfolio), Newmark handled another transaction featuring another high-end asset. Developed by Bayshore Retirement Living in 2019, The Bayshore on Hilton Head Island comprises 126 independent living and assisted living units in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. It also expanded in 2023 with 26 additional IL villas.  Occupancy has consistently been strong, and we imagine the operating margin was quite healthy, too. Life Care Services was the in-place operator. The ultimate buyer was not disclosed, but... Read More »
Helios Arranges Refinance of Arkansas Community

Helios Arranges Refinance of Arkansas Community

Helios Healthcare Advisors arranged a $11.63 million refinance for a 191-unit/231-bed portfolio of assisted living and memory care communities in Arkansas on behalf of a regional owner/operator. Spread across four locations in the Ouachita Mountain region of Arkansas and primarily serving a Medicaid population, the portfolio is a sub-set of the borrower’s larger operation. It experienced challenges associated with rising costs and little to no reimbursement rate relief from the Living Choice Medicaid waiver program.  The ask did not pencil out at the time it initially went to market and there was pressure from the borrower’s lender, which had inherited the credit through a recent... Read More »