• CBRE’s Active 2025 and Q1:26 Projections

    CBRE’s National Senior Housing team announced its 2025 activity, with $3.1 billion in total transaction volume. Debt originations and equity placements comprised $1.95 billion of that total, and were completed across 25 states. Meanwhile, the investment sales side closed $1.15 billion in deals, selling 27 properties across 14 states. The... Read More »
  • Underperforming AL/MC Assets Sell in Michigan

    A buyer with operational expertise and capital resources acquired two seniors housing communities that were not stabilized at the time of sale. The new owner intends to stabilize performance, implement targeted management improvements and reposition the assets. Current rates are priced below local competitors, offering upside through rate... Read More »
  • Global Real Estate Investor Enters Seniors Housing

    Blueprint revisited a familiar property, selling it on behalf of a joint venture that originally purchased it through another Blueprint-led sales process. The partnership was between a global private equity firm and a seniors housing sponsor, and at the time of its acquisition, the community was struggling. But they renovated all units and common... Read More »
  • LTC Properties Gets Early Start on 2026 SHOP Acquisitions

    LTC Properties started the year off with a large SHOP acquisition in Atlanta, Georgia. The portfolio comprises three seniors housing communities with nearly 400 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. The assets were built between 2014 and 2018, and were stabilized at the time of sale at 92% occupancy. LTC Properties will... Read More »
  • 1019 Senior Living Enters Another State

    1019 Senior Living entered a new state through its fifth seniors housing acquisition. The Indiana-based owner/operator purchased Arden Courts at Kenwood, rebranded as Belle’s Place of Kenwood, which was previously operated by Evergreen Senior Living. Built in 2002 with a new roof added in 2016, the asset sits in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the Kenwood... Read More »
HJ Sims Refinances Benedictine Health System

HJ Sims Refinances Benedictine Health System

Benedictine Health System, a Minnesota-based not-for-profit organization affiliated with the Catholic church, recently obtained $132.4 million in financing arranged by HJ Sims. Historically, the organization and its affiliates were financed on a standalone basis, resulting in 36 separate series of outstanding debt for 19 different borrowers. Plus, the series were held by eight different banks or servicers with disparate terms, covenants and reporting requirements. As such, the board and executive leadership team wanted to restructure its capital framework, change its service mix and invest in improvements at existing campuses, and engaged HJ Sims in August 2020.   Sims built an initial... Read More »
Minnesota Assisted Living Community Gets A New Neighbor

Minnesota Assisted Living Community Gets A New Neighbor

In a deal that was anything but ordinary, Ray Giannini of Marcus & Millichap sold an assisted living community plus an adjacent vacant skilled nursing facility in Owatonna, Minnesota for about $2.95 million, or $59,100 per unit. Steele County previously owned both of the buildings and brought in Benedictine Health System (BHS) to manage them. Built in 2002, the 50-unit AL community was operating decently with a nearly full, all-private pay census and a margin around 15% on $1.5 million of revenues. Since it was county-owned, we imagine there is a lot of room for improvement in controlling expenses. However, at the SNF, BHS had gradually transferred the beds out of the 1970s-era... Read More »
Giannini Sells Two Rural SNFs in Northern Minnesota

Giannini Sells Two Rural SNFs in Northern Minnesota

Two skilled nursing facilities that are struggling with census sold in rural Minnesota thanks to Ray Giannini of Marcus & Millichap. Featuring 80 skilled nursing and 10 assisted living beds at one location in Eveleth, and 83 skilled nursing beds in the town of Virginia, these facilities were both built in the 1960s near the Iron Range in northern Minnesota. They were not well-occupied, at just 50.5% and 64%, and cash flow was also limited. Monarch Healthcare Management purchased the facilities from Benedictine Health System for $6.5 million, or $37,600 per bed. Read More »