• CIBC Completes Several Financings

    CIBC Bank USA announced a handful of senior care financings across multiple states. First, the company closed a $17.5 million cash-out refinancing for a regional operator’s portfolio of three skilled nursing facilities with 235 total beds in northeast and southeast Massachusetts, and southern New Hampshire. The facilities have an effective age of... Read More »
  • Blueprint Adding HUD Lending Platform

    Fresh off another record-setting year for investment sales activity, Blueprint announced a major expansion of its capital markets services to now include FHA/HUD lending and servicing capabilities. The firm is acquiring the existing FHA/HUD lending platform of MidCap Financial Services, and hiring Tony Marino, formerly of Cambridge Realty Capital... Read More »
  • More New Capital Enters Seniors Housing

    A fully-integrated real estate firm that is well known in the student housing world announced its foray into the seniors housing industry. Landmark Properties focuses on the development, construction, acquisition, investment management, and operation of high-quality residential communities, but the company’s intent is to invest in ground-up... Read More »
  • Berkadia’s Recent Financing Activity

    In the past 30 days, Berkadia’s Jay Healy and Andrew Lanzaro have closed $111.5 million across four financings for four separate sponsors, encompassing eleven properties in six states. The activity included three bridge financings totaling $69.6 million from Berkadia’s proprietary balance sheet and a $41.9 million HUD refinance. The first... Read More »
  • Inspirit Senior Living Appoints New President

    Torey Riso is heading back to the operating world, joining Inspirit Senior Living as President as of March 16. He joins Dave McHarg, who is the CEO of Inspirit and Founding Partner of the company. Since its founding in 2015, Inspirit has grown to 37 properties under management, with Inspirit holding an equity interest in around half of those. ... Read More »
Clarion Partners Expands in Nashville MSA

Clarion Partners Expands in Nashville MSA

Clarion Partners, an affiliate of Franklin Templeton Investments, announced that Clarion Partners Real Estate Income Fund Inc. acquired Vitality Living Franklin, a 126-unit seniors housing community in Franklin, Tennessee (Nashville MSA). The community was built in 2014, renovated in 2023 and faced little new competition in the area. It was nearly full as a result. The community sits three miles from Williamson Medical Center and offers both assisted living and memory care services. The community is operated by Vitality Living, a Nashville-based senior living operator with more than 35 communities across the Southeast and Texas. Read More »
Regional Buyer Acquires Community Adjacent to Its SNF

Regional Buyer Acquires Community Adjacent to Its SNF

Senior Living Investment Brokerage’s Jason Punzel, Vince Viverito, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham recently sold a 42-unit assisted living community in Cashmere, Washington, near Wenatchee in the central part of the state. Epledalen Assisted Living was built in 1999 and was fully occupied, but its local owner/operator wished to exit the industry. So, a regional owner/operator looking to expand its Washington footprint stepped in to acquire the community for an undisclosed price. The buyer owns the skilled nursing facility that is adjacent to the community, so the acquisition should provide some operational synergies. Read More »
National Healthcare Properties and Discovery Buy Large Portfolio

National Healthcare Properties and Discovery Buy Large Portfolio

In an off-market deal, National Healthcare Properties acquired a portfolio of 13 seniors housing communities in eight states through a joint venture with Discovery Senior Living. The new SHOP assets total 592 units of assisted living and will be placed under a RIDEA structure with Discovery, which has been managing and will continue to manage the portfolio. The price was $64 million, or $108,100 per unit. In addition, NHP gained a right of first refusal and purchase option on an additional 13 senior living communities with approximately 500 assisted living units currently managed by Discovery. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2026, subject to closing conditions... Read More »
Debtor Sells SNF at Auction

Debtor Sells SNF at Auction

Blueprint was engaged by the debtor and approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of Eastern New York District to sell the real estate of a skilled nursing facility outside of Yakima, Washington. Arcadia Medical Resort of Parkside was built in 1972 and is licensed for 88 beds, providing long-term care, rehabilitation and therapy services. It is set in a predominantly residential area and was the only licensed facility in the town of Union Gap. At the time of initial marketing, the facility had relatively low census and star ratings, but it maintained positive cash flow, due in part to its contractual Medicaid reimbursement rate which exceeded $400 per day. Blueprint first procured a stalking... Read More »
Dwight Capital Buys HUD Mortgage Servicing Rights Portfolio

Dwight Capital Buys HUD Mortgage Servicing Rights Portfolio

Dwight Capital acquired Midland States Bank’s seniors housing HUD mortgage servicing rights portfolio, which includes loans secured by skilled nursing facilities, assisted living communities and hospitals. The portfolio totals over $500 million in unpaid principal balance from 69 loans across 22 states. Now, following the acquisition, the loan servicing portfolio of Dwight Capital and its affiliates will exceed $15 billion.  Dwight has strategically focused on expanding its servicing footprint and strengthening long-term relationships as both a principal lender and servicer, and a third-party servicer. The transaction also underscores Dwight’s commitment to continued growth within the... Read More »
Acquisition Financing Secured for Skilled Nursing Portfolio

Acquisition Financing Secured for Skilled Nursing Portfolio

Capital Funding Group closed a bridge financing for the acquisition of four skilled nursing facilities, featuring a total of 487 beds, across Colorado, Alabama and Arizona. The portfolio sold for $51.2 million, or $105,100 per bed, to an operator looking to expand its portfolio.  CFG intends to bring the loan to HUD for a permanent refinance. CFG Managing Director and Co-Head of Healthcare Business Development Andrew Jones and Senior Associate Ava Julio originated the transaction for the company. Read More »
National Health Investors Reports Its Most Active Year

National Health Investors Reports Its Most Active Year

National Health Investors released its fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 results, and it made significant strides in 2025. The REIT completed $392.4 million in investments, marking its most active year yet. Its SHOP portfolio expanded from 15 communities to 26 during the year, and has kept the momentum going into 2026. So far this year, the company has announced that it purchased nine assisted living communities with 460 units across Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee. The portfolio was acquired for $104.5 million, or $227,200 per unit, excluding closing costs. This represents the company’s largest SHOP acquisition to date, and brings its total SHOP investments to $740 million.... Read More »
American Healthcare REIT Continues Its Momentum

American Healthcare REIT Continues Its Momentum

American Healthcare REIT expanded both its Integrated Senior Health Campus and SHOP segments in 2025, completing $950 million of new investments across the two. The ISHC portfolio grew from 126 properties at year-end 2024 to 147 by the end of 2025, while the SHOP segment increased from 70 to 83 properties.  Same-community ISHC properties delivered 18.4% year-over-year NOI growth. Average occupancy reached 89.6% for full-year 2025, up 250 basis points from the prior year, with steady quarterly gains culminating in 90.6% in the fourth quarter, a 275-basis point year-over-year increase.  Same-community SHOP performed well, with NOI rising 25.2% year-over-year. Average occupancy was 88.3%... Read More »
Town Lane and Arcole Acquire Their Fifth Community

Town Lane and Arcole Acquire Their Fifth Community

Town Lane and Arcole made the fifth seniors housing investment in their inaugural $1.25 billion real estate fund. Town Lane is a real estate investment firm, and Arcole is a recently launched seniors housing platform that partners with operators to acquire newer-vintage, full-continuum communities in high-growth markets. The joint venture will bring Solera Senior Living on to manage the newly acquired property.  Built in 2016 by Senior Lifestyle Corporation, The Sheridan at Green Oaks comprises 78 independent living, 64 assisted living and 56 memory care units with more than 220,000 square feet on 17 acres. The community sits in Lake Bluff, Illinois, in close proximity to golf and... Read More »
NYC’s First CCRC Development Secures Major Financing

NYC’s First CCRC Development Secures Major Financing

Ziegler closed River’s Edge, the largest senior living tax-exempt bond transaction to date, totaling more than $600 million. River’s Edge is the first CCRC project in New York City and will be located on the campus of its sponsor, not-for-profit RiverSpring Living, in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. An affiliate of the sponsor, RS Services, will manage the community upon opening. RiverSpring Living enlisted Chicago-based Integrated Development II as its development consultant, and Ziegler as its senior manager. River’s Edge is the first not-for-profit project for Integrated Development II, which has a team with significant experience in the for-profit CCRC sector. The project, which is... Read More »
LTC Properties Buys into SHOP Growth

LTC Properties Buys into SHOP Growth

LTC Properties released its 2025 fourth quarter results and 2026 guidance, and in it reiterated its shift toward its newly established SHOP segment. During the second quarter of the year, the company established the segment, marking its shift in focus from the skilled nursing sector. Later in Q2, it terminated its Anthem Memory Care triple-net master lease, converting the 12 communities covered under it into its SHOP segment. In the fourth quarter, the REIT terminated a master lease and converted the two assisted living communities with 186 units into its SHOP segment. Those two assets now operate and account for one. Also in 2025, the company acquired 11 communities for $353 million,... Read More »