• 60 Seconds with Swett: Sticks and Bricks in ’26?

    The talk around new development is getting a lot more serious in the seniors housing industry, leading us to wonder if our 2024 prediction of “Sticks and Bricks in ‘26” may actually come true, somewhat. Back then, we may have thought that interest rates would have come down a bit more by now, but that the FOMO of getting involved in seniors... Read More »
  • Wyoming SNF Sale Sets New State Record

    There was a new record set for skilled nursing pricing in the state of Wyoming with the sale of Big Horn Rehabilitation and Care Center in Sheridan. Built in the 1960s, the facility features 128 beds and was 61% occupied. It was owned by a regional operator that was looking to recycle capital.  Before the marketing process, Evans Senior... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Acquires Facility Out of Bankruptcy

    A senior care facility in Worcester, Massachusetts, sold as part of a bankruptcy process with the help of Patrick Burke and Toby Siefert of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Built in 1970, Donna Kay Rest Home features 60 licensed beds in 31 units, providing a higher level of care and supervision than assisted living but at a lesser acuity than... Read More »
  • Civitas Sells Community to Clarion

    Hap Knowles and Nick Stahler of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Institutional Property Advisors announced that they led the sale of a seniors housing community in the Phoenix, Arizona MSA, to the fast-growing real estate investment firm Clarion Partners. The deal appears to be The Retreat at Alameda, a 110-unit assisted living/memory care community in... Read More »
  • Blueprint Handles Recapitalization

    Blueprint handled the recapitalization of Forest Hills Commons, a 2017-developed, 119-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Louisville, Kentucky MSA. A Louisville-based senior living owner/operator/developer engaged Blueprint in the third quarter of 2025 to begin the process. The asset demonstrated strong in-place performance and... Read More »
Joint Venture Secures Refinancing for Class-A Seniors Housing Community

Joint Venture Secures Refinancing for Class-A Seniors Housing Community

CBRE National Senior Housing handled two refinancings in separate transactions. First, CBRE arranged a refinance of Bruceville Point on behalf of a joint venture between Tenfold Senior Living and AEW Capital Management. Tenfold manages and operates the community. Aron Will and Tim Root originated a three-year floating-rate loan with full-term interest only through a regional bank.  Bruceville Point is a 137-unit, Class-A seniors housing community in Elk Grove, California. It offers independent living, assisted living and memory care. The common areas include three dining venues (including a bistro), club room, living room, movie theater, fulltime staffed fitness studio, art studio,... Read More »
CFG Deploys Capital Across Four Transactions

CFG Deploys Capital Across Four Transactions

Capital Funding Group financed more than $53 million across four transactions from mid- to late-March. The transactions supported three skilled nursing facilities and four assisted living and memory care communities throughout South Carolina and Georgia. They were completed on behalf of nationally recognized borrowers, one of which is a returning client. The first transaction was a $13 million bridge-to-HUD loan for the acquisition of four assisted living and memory care communities with 219 beds in Georgia. James Zabel originated the transaction. CFG next provided a $12.4 million HUD loan for the refinancing of a 176-bed SNF in Inman, executing the permanent, low-interest rate,... Read More »
North Carolina CCRC Secures Bond Financing for Expansion

North Carolina CCRC Secures Bond Financing for Expansion

Ziegler announced the pricing of Twin Lakes Community’s $35.31 Series 2025A and 2025B bonds. Twin Lakes Community operates a not-for-profit, fee-for-service CCRC on 215 acres in Burlington, North Carolina. Since opening in 1983, Twin Lakes has grown to include 482 independent living, 36 assisted living, 32 memory care and 104 health care units. Having recently completed construction and fill-up of Stockton Phase 1, a 48-unit IL apartment building, Twin Lakes is now preparing to launch Phase 2 of the Stockton project. This next phase will include an additional 36 IL apartments, ranging from 1,046 to 1,939 square feet. At the time of pricing, 100% of the new units were pre-sold with a 10%... Read More »

Transitions Healthcare Shook Home Linked to M&A Activity in LevinPro Database

Transitions Healthcare Shook Home has been linked to a merger or acquisition in the LevinPro M&A deal database. The Medicare-licensed facility is a private skilled nursing facility situated at 55 S 2nd St in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. It was incorporated on June 13, 2023. LevinPro, which tracks M&A activity across more than a dozen healthcare sectors from hospitals and home health to medical real estate and biopharma, profiled the transaction involving Transitions Healthcare Shook Home in its deal database, which is available to subscribers here. LevinPro has tracked thousands of deals in the skilled nursing facility sector throughout its history. To see the underlying deal data,... Read More »
Brookdale Occupancy Hits 81%

Brookdale Occupancy Hits 81%

Brookdale Senior Living reported its first quarter earnings results, and it appears to be building on the momentum started at the end of 2024. In addition, month-end occupancy in April topped 81.0%, marking the ninth straight month with ending occupancy above 80.0%. While it is great the company is making progress, there is still a lot more work to do.  After declining in the second half of 2024, the seniors housing operating margin increased to 28.4% in the first quarter. This represents a 130-basis point increase from the year-ago quarter, but a whopping 290-basis point increase sequentially. Meanwhile, RevPOR increased by 3.0% year over year and 4.6% sequentially, contributing to... Read More »
Development Underway for New Fairfield County CCRC

Development Underway for New Fairfield County CCRC

A new CCRC is under construction in our backyard in Stamford, Connecticut (figurative backyard from our headquarters in New Canaan). Mozaic Senior Life (formerly Jewish Senior Services) is building Mozaic Concierge Living, a CCRC that will offer 168 independent living units, along with assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing. The project has been years in the making and is the product of a coordinated effort between Mozaic, development consultant Greenbrier and investment banking firm HJ Sims (another Fairfield County firm). Greenbrier has supported the development from early site evaluation and financial modeling through sales strategy and design. They will also take on a... Read More »
NHI Raises Guidance in Q1 Earnings Report

NHI Raises Guidance in Q1 Earnings Report

National Health Investors came out with its first quarter earnings and reported modest improvements in several financial metrics from the year-ago quarter. The REIT also increased its 2025 annual guidance range, which investors must have liked, pushing up the share price by nearly 3% in the trading hours following the announcement and earnings call to hit year-to-date highs. Net income attributable to common stockholders per diluted common share for the Q1:25 was $0.74 compared to $0.71 during the same period in the prior year. It also included approximately $300,000 in proxy contest and related expenses for a proxy campaign launched by activist investor Jonathan Litt’s Land &... Read More »
Oklahoma Hospital Divests to Arkansas-Based Joint Venture

Oklahoma Hospital Divests to Arkansas-Based Joint Venture

Senior Living Investment Brokerage continued its May hot streak with two more closings. First, the firm represented a local hospital that was looking to divest its 55-unit assisted living/memory care community in McAlester, Oklahoma, in the rural eastern part of the state. The community was built in 2017 but lagged behind operationally for years. Occupancy was healthy at 91%, but it operated below a 10% margin on $3.1 million of revenues. It could stand to benefit from a more experienced and seniors housing-focused manager to push rates, control expenses and support its staff.  An Arkansas-based partnership that has an operating presence in Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma emerged as the... Read More »
CIBC Finalizes Refinance for High-Quality Skilled Nursing Operator

CIBC Finalizes Refinance for High-Quality Skilled Nursing Operator

CIBC Bank closed a $32 million cash-out commercial mortgage refinance related to two skilled nursing facilities in Kentucky and Tennessee. Both are leased to, and operated by, a high-quality, national skilled nursing operator. The two facilities encompass 243 total licensed beds and the buildings each have an effective age of 20 years. The two-facility portfolio posts strong operating results with occupancy at 82% with EBITDAR margins of 21%. The financing was handled by Matthew Tyler and Neal Netzel. Read More »
Three Separate Deals Close in Wisconsin

Three Separate Deals Close in Wisconsin

Bob Richards of Senior Care Realty recently closed three separate seniors housing transactions in Wisconsin. First, Richards facilitated the sale of a community in southern Wisconsin on behalf of a seller who had owned the community for more than 25 years and was moving towards retirement. The stand-alone memory care community is on the smaller side with occupancy typically hovering above 90%. It briefly dipped below 90% at closing but the buyer remained confident in a rebound, which has since occurred following the acquisition. Multiple operators placed bids, with the ultimate buyer being a newer owner/operator that was looking to expand its portfolio. The community, which traded at a... Read More »
Planned Florida Community Lands Bond Backing

Planned Florida Community Lands Bond Backing

JLL Securities and HJ Sims, in collaboration with JLL Capital Markets’ Seniors Housing team, arranged $134.26 million of senior series 2025A bonds for a seniors housing community that will be built in Orlando, Florida. The publicly offered, tax-exempt financing has a final maturity of 40 years. Greg Fawcett of JLL Securities, Aaron Rulnick, Kerry Lewandowski and Brady Johnson of HJ Sims, and Alanna Ellis and Timothy Hosmer of JLL Capital Markets’ Seniors Housing team originated the financing.  The borrower was Trinity Community Development Foundation, a not-for-profit entity formed by Trinity Broadcasting Network. This transaction marked the start-up senior living enterprise’s entrance... Read More »