• 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 »

Expanding in Houston

Not to be left behind by the ever expanding senior housing market in the Houston metro area, three existing retirement communities are planning significant additions which would expand both their size and continuum of care through a variety of services. The Buckingham, a 323-unit senior living community consisting of 204 independent living apartments, 43 assisted living units, 16 memory care suites and 60 private skilled nursing rooms, was built in 2005, but after reaching full capacity, they sought to fill a growing need for senior care in the area. The $56 million expansion, which will cost about $300,000 per unit, will add an additional 104 IL apartments, 33 AL suites, 18 memory care... Read More »

Two new senior facilities for Twin Falls, Idaho

Two developers—Grace Assisted Living and Peter Candy—have committed $8 million and $10 million, respectively, to build new senior facilities in Twin Falls, Idaho. Twin Falls, about 100 miles southeast of Boise, is the state’s seventh-largest city (pop. 45,000) and the fastest-growing city in south-central Idaho. The combination of an aging population—about 20% of local workers are 55 or older—and a shortage of retirement facility options made Twin Falls attractive to the two developers. Grace Assisted Living, based in Boise, is investing $8 million in a 78,000 square-foot, 85-unit assisted living facility that is expected to open in spring 2015. Grace Assisted Living currently operates 16... Read More »

Bright Oaks Group investing big in Chicagoland and Florida

Bright Oaks Group plans to develop 20 assisted living communities in suburban Chicago and elsewhere in the Upper Midwest, along with 20 communities in Florida and elsewhere in the Southeast. Four new developments already under construction in Illinois and an additional five in Florida represent about $200 million of the $500 million that Bright Oaks plans to invest in new assisted living projects over the next several years. The company’s first project, Bright Oaks of Aurora (IL), will offer 36 assisted living and 24 memory-care units when it opens in winter 2015. Bright Oaks, a privately held development company founded in 2013, is collaborating with Ecumen and Autumn Senior Living on... Read More »

Maplewood Senior Living launches new Connecticut project

A 27-acre plot in Southport, Connecticut, will be the site of Maplewood Senior Living’s next assisted living and memory-care community. Maplewood at Southport will be a traditional assisted living/memory-care residence and luxurious in every sense. The design of the 92,000-square-foot, 98-unit community will evoke the tradition of rambling Adirondack and coastal New England resorts of the early 20th century, iconic themes that should blend well in the upscale Mill Hill neighborhood in which the land is situated. The focal point of the Southport property, which is also adjacent to Mill Hill Elementary School, is nature—old-growth trees, flowering plants, and native wildlife such as deer and... Read More »

Rental CCRC coming to Raleigh, North Carolina

Site work is underway on what will be Raleigh’s first licensed, rental CCRC. The Cardinal at North Hills will be breaking ground soon. Once complete, the new community will offer month-to-month rental units—unlike most CCRCs, which require an entrance-fee contract. The Cardinal will have 165 independent living residences, plus 60 on-site private apartments licensed for assisted living, memory care, and nursing care. Residents will have direct access from their buildings to a secure, underground parking garage and to the 35,000 square foot clubhouse, which will have appropriate spaces for social, spiritual, and vocational activities, as well as multiple dining venues: the main dining room... Read More »

Three New MorningStar projects underway in Arizona, Colorado

Denver-based MorningStar Senior Living has broken ground on three new assisted living/memory care communities: one in Arizona and two in Colorado. 1. MorningStar at Arrowhead is an $18 million project on six acres in Glendale, Arizona. The new community will have 60 assisted living suites and 25 units devoted to memory care. The project is a joint venture between affiliates of MorningStar Senior Living and Real Capital Solutions, a Louisville, Colorado-based investment firm. OZ Architecture of Denver designed the project. 2. MorningStar of Fort Collins, also an $18 million project, will offer 55 suites for assisted living and 23 memory-care units. The project, designed by architectural... Read More »

ISL to manage new community in Greater San Antonio

Construction has begun on The Heights at Shavano Park, a new senior care in Shavano Park, Texas, a suburb of San Antonio. When completed, the new Mediterranean-style community will have 84 units: 40 assisted living and 44 memory care. Residents will enjoy a dining room with a private dining area, a gym with equipment specifically designed for seniors, a spa and beauty salon, a theater, and a chapel. The grounds will feature an outdoor dining and barbecue area, individual gardening plots, and—given the physical and social benefits of living with a dog or cat—a dedicated pet area! Dallas-based investment-banking firm Meridian Capital LLC, a partner of Global M&A Partners, will own The... Read More »

Holland Home rehab center in Grand Rapids to expand

Holland Home plans to expand its Breton Rehabilitation and Living Centre, with groundbreaking expected in late August. The $6.5 million, privately funded expansion of the rehab center—located on Holland Home’s Breton Woods campus in Grand Rapids, Michigan—will include a new 4,560 square-foot rehabilitation center, renovation and redecoration of the existing facility, and the addition of a 13,400 square-foot, 15-bed assisted living/memory care space. The rehabilitation services expansion will quadruple the size and capacity of the existing Breton Woods campus and the capabilities of the center’s current rehab program; it will include a state-of-the-art therapy gym, physical therapy,... Read More »

Anthem Memory Care to develop multiple locations in suburban Chicago

Anthem Memory Care of Lake Oswego, Oregon, has received approval to develop a new memory-care community in the Village of Burr Ridge, Illinois—the first of several communities the company plans to bring to the suburbs of Chicago. Anthem is also under contract for two additional purchase and sale agreements in Chicagoland—one in Tinley Park and another in Glenview—and is pursuing as many as seven other locations in the area. The 40,000 square-foot Burr Ridge community, with an estimated development cost of $12 million and as yet unnamed, will accommodate up to 76 residents dealing with various levels of Alzheimer’s, dementia, and other forms of memory loss. Upon opening, the new facility is... Read More »

Thrive Senior Living breaks ground in Gainesville, Virginia

At a ceremony on June 26, Thrive Senior Living broke ground on The Tribute at Heritage Village, a 128-unit assisted living and memory-care community in Gainesville, Virginia. Located at the front entrance of Heritage Hunt, a 55+ active adult community, The Tribute at Heritage Village will feature two restaurant dining venues, a movie theater, spa, fitness center with state-of-the-art digital equipment specifically designed for seniors, and salon, as well as a doctor’s office and a telemedicine suite. A completely separate memory-care “neighborhood” will offer a secure environment for residents with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia; innovative programming will foster cognitive... Read More »

In San Jose, a new perspective on assisted living

An environment where residents don’t have to compromise their interests, hobbies, and beloved California lifestyle is the plan for a new assisted living project coming to San Jose, California. Plans for a “dynamic and relevant” assisted living facility in the heart of tech-savvy, innovation-loving Silicon Valley were created by BCA Architects, a design firm headquartered in San Jose, and recently received unanimous approval from the San Jose City Council and Planning Commission. Construction on the $25 million facility, as yet unnamed, will begin this fall with completion scheduled for fall 2015. So what does BCA have in mind for the new facility? “Baby boomers are, by nature, continual... Read More »