• Evans Arranges New SNF Lease

    Evans Senior Investments arranged a new lease for a skilled nursing facility in Denver, Colorado, securing a 293% increase in rent on a per-bed, per-month basis in the process. At the time of marketing, the facility was 62% occupied with minimal Medicare Part A referrals. However, the 1960s-built facility has 16 private units and is proximate to... Read More »
  • Cross River Bank Closes Large Acquisition Loan

    Cross River Bank recently closed a large acquisition loan for a portfolio of seven skilled nursing facilities and one assisted living community in Georgia, Tennessee and Missouri. Raina Yoo was the Loan Officer on the transaction. The portfolio features a total of 1,339 licensed beds, and occupancy stood at 88%, overall.  Read More »
  • Local Operator Closes Lease-to-Purchase Deal

    A skilled nursing facility in Mississippi faced a time-sensitive CHOW with frozen Medicaid rates under appeal after the outgoing operator was planning to leave before the ownership transfer occurred, posing meaningful risk to the facility’s financial performance and operational continuity. The facility was older and around 50% occupied at the... Read More »
  • Mainstay Senior Living Grows in Georgia

    Mainstay Senior Living acquired two seniors housing communities in Savannah, Georgia. The properties are located about five miles apart from each other. Grace Manor Savannah was built in 1997, while Habersham Manor was built in the late-1980s. They feature a total of 143 assisted living and memory care units. Florida-based Mainstay now has 46... Read More »
  • Private Equity Firm Divests Portfolio to Chicago Investor

    Trinity Investors, a Texas-based private equity firm, sold a 224-unit portfolio of three seniors housing communities in Alabama that it acquired in tranches between 2022 and 2023 with a regional owner/operator. After the portfolio stabilized and capital was injected into the communities, Trinity recapitalized the venture in March 2025 with... Read More »
Solera Grows through Acquisition of SageLife

Solera Grows through Acquisition of SageLife

Solera Senior Living expanded its portfolio through the acquisition of SageLife. SageLife’s portfolio includes five high performing seniors housing communities in Maryland, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. This acquisition brings Solera’s growing portfolio to 14 properties spanning nine states, including a growing concentration in the Mid-Atlantic. In conjunction with the acquisition, founder of SageLife, Kelly Cook Andress, will join Solera’s Advisory Board.  The communities that are now under Solera’s management include Plush Mills (an independent and assisted living community in Wallingford, PA), Daylesford Crossing (an AL and memory care community in Malvern, PA), Village Crossing at... Read More »
Joint Venture Acquires Class-A Seniors Housing Asset in Texas

Joint Venture Acquires Class-A Seniors Housing Asset in Texas

CBRE National Senior Housing acted as the exclusive advisor on the sale of a Class-A seniors housing community in the Houston, Texas MSA. Built in 2012, the community comprises 207 units offering independent living, assisted living and memory care services. CBRE National Senior Housing also arranged acquisition financing for the community on behalf of a joint venture between a national operator and an institutional equity partner. John Sweeny, Senior Vice President and Co-Head of CBRE National Senior Housing, and Aron Will, Vice Chairman and Co-Head of CBRE National Senior Housing, represented the seller in this transaction. The sales price is undisclosed. Will and Tim Root of CBRE... Read More »
Owner/Operator Acquires in Illinois

Owner/Operator Acquires in Illinois

Evans Senior Investments arranged the sale of a supportive living community in the south suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. Waterford Estates totals 247 units with 170 independent living, 61 assisted living and 16 memory care units. The seller was a New York-based institutional owner seeking to recycle capital. Due to the scarcity of supportive living community transactions in Illinois, the offering generated significant interest from buyers. Following a competitive marketing process, the ultimate buyer was a growing owner/operator with an established footprint in the state. But the purchase price was not disclosed. Read More »
AEC Living Secures Financing

AEC Living Secures Financing

Helios Healthcare Advisors structured the recapitalization of a 300-bed assisted living and skilled nursing portfolio in the San Francisco MSA. Facing a pending maturity with its existing lender, the borrower (AEC Living) engaged Helios to structure a refinance across two owned/operated assisted living communities and one skilled nursing property that was subject to a triple-net lease with a large public health district. All assets were geographically clustered and located in very high-income markets in the Bay Area. Helios secured a financing solution through a family office that sponsored a commercial real estate debt-fund. The total loan amount was $12 million and closing occurred... Read More »
Massachusetts SNF Secures New Future in Behavioral Health

Massachusetts SNF Secures New Future in Behavioral Health

Blueprint’s Behavioral Healthcare Team sold a vacant skilled nursing facility on behalf of a nationally recognized institutional REIT to a buyer that will convert the building into a behavioral health facility. The existing asset is in Agawam, Massachusetts, and was identified as a potential candidate for a behavioral healthcare provider due to the strong patient demand, referral networks and reimbursement for inpatient substance abuse treatment.  Andrew Sfreddo, Shane Harmon, Gunnar Raney and Colin Segner of Blueprint targeted behavioral healthcare-focused operators that would push price and terms well beyond vacant SNF values. The ultimate winning bidder was a large, privately held,... Read More »
Meridian Brings On New Senior Managing Director

Meridian Brings On New Senior Managing Director

Meridian Capital Group announced that Amy Heller has joined the firm’s seniors housing and healthcare group as a Senior Managing Director focusing on healthcare related debt brokerage. Heller will support the strengthening of Meridian’s seniors housing and healthcare group, overseeing the development of new and innovative solutions for clients across the firm’s advisory and underwriting capabilities.  Heller is an industry veteran with more than two decades of experience in healthcare finance. She founded and served as President and co-Chief Lending Officer of the Healthcare and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) lending divisions at Forbright Bank, where she built and led teams... Read More »
Clearwater Welcomes New CEO

Clearwater Welcomes New CEO

Clearwater Living announced that Danielle Morgan has been promoted to CEO. As Clearwater approaches 20 seniors housing communities under management, Morgan will assume an overall leadership role overseeing the expansion of its operations, including strategic initiatives, growth opportunities and maintaining culture.  With more than 30 years of experience, Morgan is an experienced leader in the financial services and senior living industries. Since joining Clearwater in 2017, Morgan has worked to help provide strategic leadership and implement long-term growth strategies. Before joining Clearwater, Morgan served as chief operations officer of MBK Senior Living for 10 years. ... Read More »
60-ish Seconds with Steve Monroe: So, What’s Goin’ On?

60-ish Seconds with Steve Monroe: So, What’s Goin’ On?

While I did not make it to the NIC Spring Conference last week, my colleagues Ben and Steph were there to meet and greet the record crowd. The crowd included a lot of smiling faces. Some takeaways included the expectation that liquidity is returning and that we will see bigger deals this year. Also, lenders will be putting out more cash in 2025 than in 2024. All of this bodes well for the M&A market.  There was, however, some concern about what the Trump Administration is doing, and what the impact will be on seniors housing and care. And there should be concern. Even though the labor situation has improved, my guess is that there will be fewer low-wage workers around given some... Read More »
Brookdale Bucking Historical Trend

Brookdale Bucking Historical Trend

Brookdale Senior Living announced its February occupancy results, and it was better than we expected. Month-end occupancy has now increased for three straight months since November. At the end of February, occupancy was 80.8%, marking the seventh straight month that it has topped 80%, and up 20 basis points from the end of January. As you know, the winter months are usually terrible for census, and this year the strong flu has not helped. But Brookdale has succeeded, nonetheless. Weighted average occupancy in February increased by 10 basis points to 79.3%, and that seems to be stuck in a holding pattern as it has hardly budged for six months. The share price jumped by 3.6% on the news on a... Read More »
CareTrust’s Recommended Cash Acquisition of Care REIT by Bidco

CareTrust’s Recommended Cash Acquisition of Care REIT by Bidco

CareTrust REIT reached an agreement with the board of directors of Care REIT plc on the terms of a recommended cash offer to be made for the acquisition of Care REIT by CR United Bidco Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CareTrust. CareTrust has agreed to pay 108 pence in cash per ordinary share of Care REIT. Based on the Sterling to Dollar exchange rate on March 10, the terms of the acquisition represent a Care REIT market capitalization of US$577 million and, together with the assumption of net debt of approximately US$240 million, represents a total purchase price of approximately US$817 million. The acquisition represents a 32.8% premium to Care REIT’s March 10 closing share price and a... Read More »
AEC Living Secures Financing

Walker & Dunlop Handles California Closing

In February, Tony Cassie, Brant Nelson and Sam Thompson of Walker & Dunlop facilitated the sale of a seniors housing community in Concord, California. The seller, a joint venture between a local private investor group and Agemark Senior Living, purchased the community in 2018 and conducted extensive renovations while turning around operations.  Built in the 1970s as a nursing home, the community comprises 100 assisted living and memory care units. At the time of sale, occupancy was 98%. CareTrust REIT, in partnership with Kalesta Healthcare, acquired the community for $20.5 million, or $205,000 per unit. Read More »