• Brookdale Boosts Short Term Stability

    Brookdale Senior Living completed a series of financing transactions totaling approximately $600 million that refinanced all of its remaining 2026 mortgage debt and maturities, around $350 million, and a portion of 2027 mortgage debt maturities, approximately $200 million. The company also secured more fixed-rate debt, helping to cut rate risk.... Read More »
  • Ikaria Announces $1 Billion in Q4 Volume

    Ikaria Capital Group closed out a successful 2025, announcing several significant transactions in the fourth quarter that exceeded $1 billion in volume. The activity comprises financings in the seniors housing, skilled nursing and behavioral health sectors across multiple states and borrowers.  The largest deal was a $595.5 million senior... Read More »
  • PE Group Enters Oklahoma after Medicaid Rate Bump

    A skilled nursing facility in Oklahoma that recently benefited from the state’s Medicaid rate bump sold to a national private equity firm looking to enter the state. Built in 1967, Maplewood Care Center features 180 beds on over three acres in Tulsa. It is located close to several major hospitals and healthcare campuses, but occupancy was sitting... Read More »
  • Community Purchased through HUD Assumption

    Chad Mundy of the Knapp-Stahler Group of Marcus & Millichap sold an 82-unit assisted living/memory care community in Lewiston, Idaho. Built in phases in the early 2000s, the community featured five separate buildings, one of which was vacant after sustaining damage from a flood. As a result, occupancy was lower, based on the 89 licensed beds,... Read More »
  • The Zett Group Rounds Out Q4

    The Zett Group closed out Q4 with several closings in the Pacific Northwest. First was the sale of Fox Hollow, a 58-unit seniors housing community in Eugene, Oregon. Built in 1988 and renovated in 2003, the community features 51 assisted living units and seven independent living “cottage-style” units. Set in a nice area of Eugene, it was owned by... Read More »
Joint Venture Makes Its First Acquisition

Joint Venture Makes Its First Acquisition

A joint venture between Capitol Seniors Housing and a global alternative asset manager with over $55 billion in assets under management worldwide acquired The Woods at Merrimack, a 140-unit seniors housing community in Methuen, Massachusetts. This is the first deal between CSH and the asset manager but marks the beginning of a long-term collaboration between the firms as they expand their seniors housing investments in the U.S.  Sunshine Retirement Living developed the community to include 102 market-rate units and a separate three-story building with 38 affordable units. Residents of both buildings can access the community’s indoor and outdoor dining and recreational areas, which include... Read More »
Michigan-Based Owner/Operator Buys Lansing Campus

Michigan-Based Owner/Operator Buys Lansing Campus

A public REIT engaged Blueprint in the confidential divestiture of a 53-unit assisted living and memory care campus in Lansing, Michigan. The campus features two standalone buildings separately catering to assisted living residents and those requiring memory care. The well-maintained campus was originally built in 1997 and consisted of 19 assisted living units licensed as an Adult Large Group Home and 34 memory care units licensed as Home for the Aged. Blueprint targeted local and regional investors and providers, resulting in multiple competitive offers. Ultimately, a longstanding, Michigan-based owner and operator was chosen, furthering its desire to expand throughout central and... Read More »
Bidding War Boosts AL/MC Sale

Bidding War Boosts AL/MC Sale

Kyle Hallion, Kory Buzin and Steve Thomes of Blueprint drove competitive pricing after being engaged by a national lender and special servicer to handle the sale of a lender-owned property following foreclosure. The highly-occupied, 75-unit assisted living and memory care community in Raleigh, North Carolina, delivered strong in-place occupancy and solid cash flow. Blueprint’s marketing effort generated engagement from regional operators, private equity groups and national owners. There was competitive tension throughout the process, culminating in a final round that boosted the value for the seller. Read More »
Verdot Capital Divests Minnesota Full-Continuum Community

Verdot Capital Divests Minnesota Full-Continuum Community

JLL Capital Markets completed the sale of Hayden Grove Bloomington, a 166-unit seniors housing community in Bloomington, Minnesota. The seller was Verdot Capital, and the buyer was undisclosed. The operator, Great Lakes Management, will stay in place to manage the community. Opened in 2021, Hayden Grove Bloomington is a four-story building offering independent living, assisted living and memory care. It is close to nearby healthcare services such as M Health Fairview and Hennepin Healthcare facilities. Residents have access to a variety of activities and events on-site in addition to amenities, including underground parking, a private dining room, bistro, coffee lounge, game room, party... Read More »
Berkadia Closes in Ohio and Texas

Berkadia Closes in Ohio and Texas

Berkadia handled the sale of a 65-unit seniors housing community in Akron, Ohio. Featuring both assisted living and memory care services, the community appears to be Brookdale Bath, which was built in 1998. Mike Garbers, Cody Tremper, Dave Fasano and Ross Sanders handled the transaction. Garbers, Tremper, Fasano and Sanders also facilitated the sale of Clayton Oaks Living, a 98-unit assisted living and memory community in Richmond, Texas, located in the southwest suburbs of Houston. The seller was Bridgewood Property Company, a Houston-based developer, owner and operator. Built in 2015, the community was over 90% occupied at closing. The community was purchased by a joint venture between... Read More »
Sabra Trims Forecast, Tempering a Solid Quarter

Sabra Trims Forecast, Tempering a Solid Quarter

Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc. announced several acquisitions in its third quarter results. The REIT acquired six managed seniors housing properties for $217.5 million with an estimated initial cash yield of 7.8%, three of which were acquired through a consolidated joint venture in which Sabra has a 95% equity interest. The company also purchased the operations of four managed seniors housing properties during the quarter. The assets were previously leased to a tenant under triple-net operating leases for $19.7 million.  Subsequent to quarter end, Sabra closed on three additional managed seniors housing properties for $124.0 million with an estimated initial cash yield of 7.0%, bringing... Read More »
WOW! Sonida Senior Living Goes BIG

WOW! Sonida Senior Living Goes BIG

Sonida Senior Living just announced what can only be described as a transformational acquisition. Since new management came in, CEO Brandon Ribar and CFO Kevin Detz, Sonida has been on an upward path of improved operations and a balance sheet that has grown stronger. Occupancy has been increasing (87.7% in Q3) and NOI and EBITDA are rising. Spot occupancy on October 31 was 89.0%. The company was still relatively small despite a series of acquisitions in the past 12 months, but none of them were transformational. Now, the company has agreed to purchase CNL Healthcare Properties (CNL), a public non-traded REIT, in a cash and stock transaction valued at $1.8 billion. CNL owns 69 seniors... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: October Smashes M&A Record

60 Seconds with Swett: October Smashes M&A Record

We were predicting a record-breaking end to the year in terms of M&A activity, but we are not sure we expected a 100+ deal month, with 110 transactions and counting. Just to put that in perspective, the previous record for any month was 77 deals in October of last year, and only four months had previously broken the 70-deal barrier. So this October beat the previous record by 43%, and it’s still just a preliminary total. That is out of this world. There were nearly 100 separate buyers, according to the individual deal data available in LevinPro LTC, the most prolific being, unsurprisingly, Welltower. But Welltower’s activity is actually understated in the figures, as a significant... Read More »

Newmark Ends October with Portfolio Closings

Newmark announced a flurry of transactions at the end of October involving various institutional firms. The largest was a portfolio of seniors housing communities in the Northeast known as “Stars and Stripes.” Word on the street is that the portfolio sold for north of $800 million, and that a sub-portfolio was valued at more than $1 million per unit. The deal consisted of nearly 900 units in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, with the communities built between 2017 and 2022. One group of properties were considered to be value-add, while the other was classified as core (we imagine that was the $1 million+ per unit deal). Newmark also sold two assisted living/memory... Read More »

Stacked Stone Acquires Missouri Portfolio

Stacked Stone Ventures announced the purchase of a seven-community assisted living/memory care portfolio in Missouri for $71 million, or $212,600 per unit. Totaling 334 units and 405 beds, the Oak Pointe portfolio was developed between 2015 and 2020 by an investor group called ClearPath Senior Housing, which included Jeff Binder of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Binder is from Missouri and was knowledgeable about each community’s local market. Provision Living operated the portfolio. The communities were operating well, with occupancy rising from 84% at the time of PSA to 92% at close, and EBITDAR growing from $6 million to $6.7 million in the same period. Like its other recent... Read More »

Blueprint Sells Georgia Community to LTC Properties

LTC Properties divested seven skilled nursing facilities through two separate deals for $122 million in October. In those transaction announcements, the publicly traded REIT noted that it intended to redeploy proceeds for the acquisition of newer, stabilized SHOP assets. It looks like that’s what the publicly traded REIT did in Georgia at the start of November.  LTC Properties used those proceeds to fund a $23 million, or $261,400 unit, purchase of an 88-unit assisted living and memory care community in Marietta, Georgia. The community is currently stabilized at 90% occupancy and is expected to deliver a year-one yield of approximately 7%. The Arbor Company, a new LTC operating... Read More »