Ziegler Closes Tax-Exempt Bond Issue for Florida Not-For-Profit Corporation
Ziegler announced the successful closing of a $25 million tax-exempt bond issue for Orlando Senior Health Network. The Series 2025 bonds were issued through the Florida Local Government Finance Commission. This marks the third transaction Ziegler has completed for OSHN over the past decade. Orlando Lutheran Towers, Inc., doing business as Orlando Senior Health Network, is a Florida not-for-profit corporation that owns and operates a Type-B CCRC, Orlando Lutheran Towers. Built in 1980, the community features 184 independent living units in one building (the Fountains), 81 assisted living units in another building (Windsor Place), and 168 skilled nursing beds on 4.5 acres in downtown... Read More »
Seniors Housing and Care M&A Activity Inches Up in Q2:25 but Lags Behind Q2:24
The number of publicly announced seniors housing and care acquisitions in the second quarter of 2025 totaled 181 deals, based on new acquisition data from LevinPro LTC. This represents a 1.1% increase from the 179 transactions disclosed in the first quarter of 2025, but a 3.2% decrease from the 187 deals in Q2:24. Additionally, the $5.68 billion spent on Q2:25 transactions fell by 2.7% from the $5.84 billion spent on Q1:25 transactions, and rose by 134.7% from the $2.42 billion spent in the year-ago first quarter, based on disclosed prices. Stripping foreign transactions from the totals of publicly announced transactions, the second quarter of 2025 saw 133 U.S. deals, or 532 on an... Read More »
Local Investor Partnership Divests to Ensign in Texas
Daniel Morris of Plains Commercial Real Estate arranged the off-market sale of a 124-bed skilled nursing facility in Duncanville, Texas, that was owned by a partnership of local investors. The building was leased to a national operator, which has managed the facility since its construction in 2009. The asset sold six weeks after execution of the purchase and sale agreement, with a long-term lease in place with the current operator. The Texas Broker of Record was DuWest Management Services, Inc. The Ensign Group announced that it acquired the real estate of Duncanville Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center through a subsidiary of Standard Bearer Healthcare REIT. This facility also... Read More »
Leo Brown Group Divests Class-A Community in Cincinnati MSA
Berkadia sold a 146-unit seniors housing community in the Cincinnati, Ohio MSA, on behalf of the seller, Indianapolis-based Leo Brown Group, which originally built the community. Built in 2021 with 52 independent living, 64 assisted living and 30 memory care units, it was 95% occupied as of June 30, 2025, with the memory care portion fully occupied. A longtime owner of seniors housing communities bought the property on July 1, for an undisclosed price. Traditions Management will stay on as the operator. Read More »
Ziegler Closes Bonds for Bayview’s CCRC Renovations
Ziegler announced the closing of the Bayview $16.51 million Series 2025 bonds through the Washington State Housing Finance Commission. Bayview is a Washington not-for-profit corporation and 501(c)(3) organization that owns and operates a CCRC comprising 133 independent living, 34 assisted living and 10 memory care units. Bayview also operates an intergenerational childcare center on the campus for up to 42 children. The bonds consist of long-term tax-exempt, short-term tax-exempt (TEMPSSM), and short-term taxable (TMPSSM) fixed interest rate bonds issued on parity with the Series 2016A & 2024 bonds. The bonds were structured with a 35-year final maturity (July 1, 2060). Principal... Read More »
Regional Portfolio Changes Hands
Blueprint announced two closings, with one in the Southeast and one in Pennsylvania. First, not-for-profit Ballad Health divested its senior care portfolio that was geographically concentrated in Eastern Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. The portfolio included four assets with regional concentration along the border of Tennessee and Virginia, including three skilled nursing facilities and one assisted living community, totaling 402 licensed beds. The portfolio presented an attractive opportunity for a regional-based owner/operator to achieve immediate scale with operational upside, while capitalizing on the strong referral relationships through the seller’s broader acute care health... Read More »
Cima Investment Group Acquires AL/MC Portfolio
SVN Senior Living Advisors announced the successful sale of a three-property assisted living and memory care portfolio in the Houston, Texas MSA. The transaction was completed on behalf of a national financial institution. The three properties comprise more than 200 units. Managing Director Josh Salzman led the transaction, supported by John Klement, Don Husi and Aaron Thompson. The assets attracted multiple qualified offers and ultimately sold for an undisclosed amount. Cima Investment Group (and its affiliated operating company, Cima Senior Living), a fully integrated investment platform focused on senior living, was the buyer. It is led by industry veterans and is known for its... Read More »
Family Office Purchases Midwest Community
For the second time in just 18 months, Evans Senior Investments facilitated the sale of Country Meadow Place, a 56-unit assisted living community in Mason City, Iowa. The seller was Jaybird Senior Living, a regional owner/operator that acquired the asset in 2024 for $13 million, or $232,100 per unit. Evans handled that transaction too. The community was well occupied at the time of the 2024 purchase, but the property has continued to perform well, achieving an in-place NOI margin of 36%. Through a competitive marketing process, ESI secured seven offers from institutional investors. The selected buyer was a private family office that paid $15.15 million, or $270,500 per unit. The... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: The Great Debates of Senior Care
Next week for our Second Quarter Investor Call, sponsored by Ziegler, we’ll be trying something different that is sure to be both entertaining and useful for our audience of operators, investors, brokers, lenders and everyone else. We’ll be tackling The Great Debates of Senior Care, covering some of the most important issues facing the industry. Like will we see a shortage of seniors housing units by 2030, or will consumer preferences and affordability limit future demand? Are cap rates currently too low and aren’t covering operating risk appropriately? Should you build or buy right now? What has been the most transformational new technology in seniors housing operations? And others. There... Read More »
Thank You Ortelius?
Brookdale Senior Living just reported June occupancy, and the increases were much better than we expected for a second quarter, which historically has been a mixed bag for the industry. Let’s just say, we were impressed. June’s same-community weighted average occupancy was 81.1%, up 220 basis points year over year and up 50 basis points sequentially. Month-end same community occupancy increased sequentially by 70 basis points to 82.8%. Occupancy levels have been steadily increasing since January, which is great for the company and shareholders. This is all happening before the third quarter, which historically has always been the best period for census gains. While shareholders should be... Read More »Schedule a demo
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