• 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 »
Dwight Capital Stays Active in 2019

Dwight Capital Stays Active in 2019

Dwight Capital has closed a slew of bridge financings in the last couple of months totaling more than $17 million. These transactions included a $3.96 million bridge loan for a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in Overland Park, Kansas, a $2.34 million loan for a 32-bed assisted living community in Hinsdale, New York and a $3.77 million acquisition loan for a 116-bed SNF in Cape May Court House, New Jersey that was bought by an owner/operator of several other facilities in the state. Dwight Capital also funded the acquisition of a skilled nursing portfolio in Wisconsin (in a sale led by Amy Sitzman and Michael Segal of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors) with a $3.7 million loan... Read More »
Monticello Funds Tennessee SNF Purchase

Monticello Funds Tennessee SNF Purchase

Following up on several other acquisition financings closed on behalf of a previous borrower in the past three years, Monticello Asset Management funded the purchase of two more skilled nursing facilities in Tennessee. Totaling $16 million in first lien debt that Monticello expects to refinance through HUD in the coming years, the transaction was arranged for an experienced owner/operator with a current portfolio of more than 3,700 licensed beds. This latest acquisition totaled 303 beds across the two Tennessee locations. Monticello’s asset-based lending group, Monticello Commercial Capital, also provided a $3 million working capital loan to the operating companies. Read More »
Genesis Occupancy Stabilizes, Finally

Genesis Occupancy Stabilizes, Finally

After several years of declining occupancy, operations seem to be stabilizing at the largest skilled nursing provider in the country. It has not been an easy past few years for Genesis Healthcare, or for the entire skilled nursing sector. But we always thought there would be some light at the end of the tunnel, and that nursing facilities would not go away, despite predictions of that for two or three decades. Genesis had seen its occupancy decline pretty steadily for several years. But in the 2018 fourth quarter, census actually increased by 90 basis points from the year-ago quarter, to 85.6% based on operating beds. Genesis also posted sequential and same-facility increases. The company... Read More »
Blueprint Closes New England Assisted Living Sale

Blueprint Closes New England Assisted Living Sale

The husband and wife owners of an assisted living community in Dover, New Hampshire started on their path to retirement with the help of Steve Thomes of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors. Originally a historic colonial home that was converted to assisted living, the unique community still has a bed a breakfast feel to it. However, a local operator/developer saw the chance to refurbish and expand the property, purchasing it for an undisclosed amount. The husband and wife team will remain as the operator under a lease until the development project is completed, at which point operations will transfer to the new real estate owner. The transaction closed with an assist from former... Read More »
Breaking News

Breaking News

Chicago-based JLL announced it is buying HFF, Inc. in a $2 billion cash and stock deal. We wonder whether HFF management was so distraught after the seniors housing team jumped ship two months ago that they just had to sell. All kidding aside, the combination of these two firms will create one sizable company that will compete on many fronts. Read More »
Does Size Matter in Seniors Housing?

Does Size Matter in Seniors Housing?

Last week, we took a look at the relationship between the size of the skilled nursing facility and the price it sold at, according to statistics from our just-published Skilled Nursing Acquisition & Investment Report. And like skilled nursing facilities, the larger the seniors housing property, the higher price paid for it, generally. That is because larger institutional properties can take advantage of scale to boost cash flow and thus its value. In addition, the majority IL communities tend to be large and IL has commanded high prices in most years. There are indeed smaller “boutique” memory care communities that can command a high per-unit price because of the rents they can charge... Read More »
Did Skilled Nursing Investors Pay for Size in 2018?

Did Skilled Nursing Investors Pay for Size in 2018?

The skilled nursing market has been going through many changes in recent years as it adapts to new reimbursement policies, shorter lengths of stay and more medically-complex patients. But did all of that affect what buyers will pay for size in 2018? Well, according to the 2019 Skilled Nursing Acquisition & Investment Report (available soon), there was a perfect correlation between size of nursing facility sold and the average price per bed for the second year in a row. Historically, larger facilities have commanded the higher prices because of their ability to scale, lower the per patient costs and fill beds with Medicaid patients at will. However, those advantages may soon backfire... Read More »
Dwight Capital Closes the Bridge

Dwight Capital Closes the Bridge

Dwight Capital had a busy February for bridge loans, closing four separate loans for more than $13.7 million. The bridge loans included $3.96 million for a 12-bed skilled nursing facility in Kansas and a $3.7 million loan for a three-facility, 193-bed portfolio that was sold by a not-for-profit to a repeat client of Dwight Capital. In addition, the Dwight team closed a $3.77 million bridge loan on a 116-bed SNF in New Jersey for a buyer that owns and operates several facilities in the state. Finally, they closed a $2.34 million bridge loan on a 32-bed assisted living community in New York. Once the HUD refinancing is completed, Dwight Capital will be providing a supplemental loan for the... Read More »
Love Funding Closes Construction Bridge Loan

Love Funding Closes Construction Bridge Loan

Leonard Lucas of Love Funding closed a $10.5 million bridge-to-HUD construction loan for a transitional rehab facility in Yuma, Arizona. The new facility will have 32,000 square feet and 41 private rooms. It will be 100% Medicare and managed care with no Medicaid patients. The bridge loan was placed with Love Funding’s parent company, Midland States Bank. This is the second bridge-to-HUD construction loan obtained through Love Funding in the developer/operator’s portfolio. Read More »
Meridian Gets It Done in Virginia

Meridian Gets It Done in Virginia

The team of Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin and Josh Simpson of Meridian Capital Group closed a large financing for the acquisition of a portfolio of 12 skilled nursing facilities located throughout Virginia. Totaling 1,346 beds, the portfolio is now owned by a private skilled nursing investor. A finance company provided the $90 million loan. Read More »