• 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 »
  • SLIB Shoots Out of the Gates in 2026

    On the heels of a prolific 2025, Senior Living Investment Brokerage is starting 2026 strong with a slew of closings across the country. The largest was a portfolio featuring three seniors housing communities in Alaska (two) and Idaho. Totaling 243 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care, the communities were built in the... Read More »
Public REIT Purchases DE Class-A Community

Public REIT Purchases DE Class-A Community

JLL was engaged by a private equity firm in the sale of its Class-A seniors housing community in Wilmington, Delaware. Harbor Retirement Associates will continue to manage the community for the buyer, a publicly traded REIT. Built in 2018, HarborChase of Wilmington is one of the newest seniors housing communities in the state and is the newest community in its primary market by a substantial margin. It features 64 assisted living units in one- and two-bedroom layouts and 32 memory care units (they are some of the largest units in the market). The community achieves market-leading rents and occupancy and is 100% private pay.  The JLL Senior Housing Capital Markets team was led by Jay... Read More »
Chicago Pacific Founders Secures Acquisition Financing

Chicago Pacific Founders Secures Acquisition Financing

CBRE arranged acquisition financing for The Arbors of Gulf Breeze on behalf of CPF Living Communities. Aron Will and Tim Root arranged a five-year fixed rate loan through the Freddie Mac Optigo lending platform.  Built in 2018, The Arbors consists of 132 units with 51 independent living, 58 assisted living and 23 memory care units in Gulf Breeze, Florida, 2,000 feet from Gulf Breeze Hospital (the area’s only five-star hospital and part of the Baptist Health Care network). The community was stabilized and 96% occupied at closing. It will be managed by Grace Management, CPF’s wholly owned management affiliate. Brad Clousing, Daniel Geraghty, Jeff Binder and Jason Punzel of Senior Living... Read More »
Intergenerational Community Secures Refinance

Intergenerational Community Secures Refinance

BMO’s Healthcare Real Estate Finance group acted as the lead arranger and administrative agent on a term loan refinancing for an intergenerational community in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on behalf of Harrison Street and Oppidan. Built in 2020, The Pillars of Prospect Park comprises 282 independent living, assisted living, memory care and student housing units. The community also features a child-care/learning center with capacity for about 100 children. Ebenezer manages the community. This was the fifth community developed together by Oppidan and Ebenezer. In August, Berkadia announced its role in arranging the refinance of The Pillars. To take out an existing construction loan, Austin Sacco... Read More »
Standalone Memory Care Community Trades in Colorado

Standalone Memory Care Community Trades in Colorado

Blueprint facilitated the sale of a standalone memory care community in a part of Colorado with limited local competition and affluent wealth demographics. Built in 2016, the community comprises 50 private studio apartments with in-unit bathrooms in Grand Junction. At the time of marketing, it had demonstrated strong upward trending performance with occupancy approaching 84%, allowing an incoming owner/operator to continue the positive momentum and capitalize on future rate growth and expense efficiencies once stabilized. Amy Sitzman, Scott Frazier and Giancarlo Riso handled the transaction. Blueprint targeted regional and national memory care-specific owners and operators, which yielded... Read More »
Convivial Secures Bond Financing

Convivial Secures Bond Financing

Ziegler announced the closing of Convivial St. Petersburg, LLC’s Series 2024 revenue bond anticipation notes. The Series 2024 notes are comprised of $23.4 million of tax-exempt Series 2024A notes sold publicly to institutional investors and a total of $6 million of subordinate tax-exempt and taxable notes purchased by an affiliate of the developer and manager of the project. Convivial will use the proceeds of the Series 2024 notes to fund the land acquisition, certain pre-development expenditures and marketing costs of a planned CCRC on 5.27 acres in St. Petersburg, Florida. The CCRC is anticipated to consist of two residential buildings with 170 independent living units, 48 assisted... Read More »
Kauhale Health Acquires in Ohio

Kauhale Health Acquires in Ohio

A growing owner/operator added another community to its portfolio in Ohio. Kauhale Health acquired Symphony Centerville, a 60-unit memory care community in Centerville, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton. Built in 2016, the community has 57 private and three shared units, and exclusively caters to private pay residents. There are also amenities like a great room with fireplace, community theater, large exterior courtyard with walking/patio areas, a spa, resident gardens, rehab spaces and aromatherapy. We understand the property improved its occupancy and operating margin significantly since the pandemic, but there is still some room for improvement. Kauhale Healthcare Real Estate, an affiliate of... Read More »
NHI Makes Largest Purchase Since 2020

NHI Makes Largest Purchase Since 2020

The publicly traded REITs seem to be some of the most obvious group of investors to take advantage of the attractive buying opportunity in seniors housing today, but so far, Welltower has hogged most of the spotlight. That is unsurprising, given Welltower’s size. And the smaller REITs saw few portfolio deals on the market in the last year, instead having to acquire properties in piecemeal.  However, National Health Investors has announced its largest deal since 2020, acquiring 10 assisted living/memory care communities in North Carolina for $121.3 million, or $232,400 per unit. Blueprint originally marketed two communities on behalf of the joint venture owner, but the deal eventually... Read More »
Brookdale’s Still Lagging

Brookdale’s Still Lagging

After Brookdale Senior Living finally topped 80% in month-end occupancy in August, reaching 80.4%, the company reported 80.5% in month-end occupancy for September, indicating weaker momentum going into Q4 compared to prior years. We said improvements would need to be maintained through Q4 to head into the winter/flu season in a strong position. So far, the company is, unfortunately, only maintaining, with just a 10 basis point increase from August to September.  Brookdale also reported a Q3 average occupancy of 78.9%. Yes, this is an 80-basis point increase quarter over quarter and a 130-basis point increase year over year, but it is typical to see senior living occupancy grow the... Read More »
Live Oak Closes Three Bridge Loans

Live Oak Closes Three Bridge Loans

Live Oak Bank has been actively lending this Fall, so far, announcing three closings in recent weeks. The bank first closed a $13.5 million bridge loan for Bakerson Companies. The bridge-to-agency loan features a three-year initial term and 24 months of interest-only payments. Loan proceeds were used to recapitalize part of the all-cash purchase of a 172-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community earlier this year in the Charlotte, North Carolina MSA.  Also in September, Live Oak closed a $47.5 million bridge loan for a Florida-based seniors housing owner. The loan provides bridge-to-sale financing and features a three-year initial term, 24 months of interest-only... Read More »
Investor Purchases Upstate New York ALP Portfolio

Investor Purchases Upstate New York ALP Portfolio

A portfolio of ALP (Assisted Living Program) communities sold in upstate New York, with Dave Balow of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handling the transaction. ALP properties serve those who are medically eligible for nursing home placement (and mostly are Medicaid recipients) but provide care for them in a less medically intensive, lower cost setting more similar to an assisted living community. So the state saves on the higher cost of a nursing home, and the provider earns a higher rate than a typical assisted living community. Win-win.  The New York-based seller owns and operates assisted living communities in the downstate region, and divested all of its ALP assets in the... Read More »
Struggling Community Trades in Arkansas

Struggling Community Trades in Arkansas

Evans Senior Investments arranged the sale of a seniors housing community in Maumelle, Arkansas (Little Rock MSA). Built in 2007, Stonehaven Assisted Living comprises 60 assisted living units with both private pay and Medicaid residents. However, over the past year, the community faced some major difficulties. At the time of marketing, occupancy was just 53%, causing financial, staffing and other daily operational challenges.  Recognizing the need for a change, the seller, a national healthcare system, chose to exit the market. A private company ultimately acquired the asset and partnered with a Midwest-based operator, marking its second investment in the state. The transaction was... Read More »