• Eight Wisconsin Senior Care Assets Sell in Four Deals

    by | Nov 21, 2025 3:02 pm | Acquisitions

    Senior Care Realty had an active October, with a handful of deals closed by Chad Wegner and Bob Richards. The four transactions involved senior care assets spread throughout Wisconsin. In one of the transactions, Chad Wegner of Senior Care Realty sold four assisted living and memory care communities across two campuses in Wisconsin. The... Read More »

  • Public REIT Offloads SNFs Following Lease Non-Renewal

    by | Nov 21, 2025 2:48 pm | Acquisitions

    Blueprint started the fourth quarter well after selling a portfolio of skilled nursing facilities in Florida, California and Virginia, on behalf of a public REIT. The existing tenant elected not to renew its master lease, prompting the portfolio divesture. The first closing was completed in Florida for two high-quality SNFs. The two facilities... Read More »

  • Senior Care Owner/Operator Acquires AL Community

    by | Nov 21, 2025 2:45 pm | Acquisitions

    Dan Mahoney and Dillon Rudy of Blueprint were engaged by a Louisiana-based not-for-profit owner/operator to market a 40-unit assisted living community in the Inland Northwest region of Idaho. The property maintained a steady resident base and in-place HUD financing. The organization was divesting because the asset no longer geographically aligned... Read More »

  • Developer Divests to Capital Group

    by | Nov 21, 2025 2:42 pm | Acquisitions

    A Class-A seniors housing community near Wichita, Kansas, found a new owner thanks to Evans Senior Investments. The seller developed the community in 2014 and has operated it since then. There are 101 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. Occupancy was consistent around 90%, and the operating margin was in the high-20s,... Read More »

  • Stellar Senior Living Finances Arizona Community

    by | Nov 21, 2025 2:40 pm | Acquisitions, Financings

    Marcus & Millichap arranged $22 million in financing for The Springs of Scottsdale, a 143-unit independent living community in Phoenix, Arizona. Paul Winterowd secured the financing with a national life insurance company on behalf of Stellar Senior Living. The sponsor secured a five-year loan at 60% loan-to-value, with a competitive interest... Read More »
Ensign Makes Another Arizona Acquisition

Ensign Makes Another Arizona Acquisition

by | Jun 8, 2018 7:02 am | Acquisitions

Despite its stated strategy to own more of the real estate in its portfolio of over 230 healthcare properties, The Ensign Group shunned its recent practice and acquired just the operations of a 140-bed skilled nursing facility in Sun City West, Arizona. Reporting 87% occupancy at the time of the sale, the facility will be operated by Ensign’s Arizona-based subsidiary, Bandera Healthcare, while Ensign acquired the operations subject to a long-term lease. The deal brings The Ensign Group’s portfolio to 184 skilled nursing operations, 22 of which include assisted living services, and 51 AL/independent living operations. Of that total, Ensign currently owns the real estate at 67 of the 235... Read More »

Go West, Young Broker

by | Sep 15, 2017 7:01 am | Acquisitions

The team at Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors continued their successful year, completing two transactions on the West Coast. First up, Chris Hyldahl, Gideon Orion and Amy Sitzman represented a California-based regional owner/operator in its sale of two Arizona skilled nursing facilities to The Ensign Group. Included in the purchase was an 88-bed facility in Mesa built in 1978 and renovated in 2011, and a 115-bed facility in Tucson that was built in 1965 but expanded in 1974. Combined, they were approximately 68% occupied. Ensign ended up paying $15.25 million, or about $61,250 per licensed bed, for both the real estate and operations of the facilities. Its Arizona-based operating... Read More »
Ensign Executes In Arizona

Ensign Executes In Arizona

by | Sep 7, 2017 7:44 am | Acquisitions

Continuing its strategy to own more of the real estate in its portfolio of over 200 healthcare properties, The Ensign Group bought two skilled nursing facilities in Arizona for an undisclosed price. Included in the purchase is an 88-bed facility in Mesa (Phoenix MSA) and a 115-bed facility in Tucson, with a combined occupancy of about 68%. Ensign leased the facilities to its Arizona-based operating subsidiary, Bandera Healthcare, Inc. Including the operations and, of course, the real estate, the acquisition is expected to be accretive to 2018 earnings. Now, Ensign owns the real estate at 63 of the 229 facilities in its portfolio, but we imagine that 27.5% ratio will keep rising. That is... Read More »