• SLIB Sells High-Quality SNFs in Georgia

    by | May 16, 2025 4:17 pm | Acquisitions

    Daniel Geraghty and Bradley Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the sale of two large skilled nursing facilities in the Atlanta, Georgia MSA. Totaling 439 licensed beds, the facilities are set in prime suburban markets on valuable real estate. Additionally, there was limited competition in their markets. As a result, the... Read More »

  • Invesque Shifts Focus to Senior Care Sales

    by | May 16, 2025 4:16 pm | Acquisitions

    Invesque reported its first quarter earnings, highlighting a few M&A updates. Back in the first quarter of 2024, the company had announced it entered into purchase and sale agreements for three investment properties in New York, expecting to close on the sale transactions in the first six months of 2025. A sale involving one of the properties... Read More »

  • Turnkey RCAC Sale Closes in Wisconsin

    by | May 16, 2025 4:14 pm | Acquisitions

    Chad Wegner of Senior Care Realty handled an RCAC sale in Northwest Wisconsin. The community is under two hours from the Minneapolis, Minnesota MSA, with strong occupancy and all private pay residents. It was “turnkey” and profitable at the time of sale. The deal, which closed in May at 104% of the asking price, was based on a 2024 cap rate of... Read More »

  • Mississippi Seniors Housing Portfolio Secures Refinancing

    by | May 16, 2025 4:14 pm | Financings

    Steven Muth and Andrew Lanzaro of Berkadia recently completed the refinancing of a four-property seniors housing portfolio in Mississippi for a Southeast-based owner/operator, which is a first-time Berkadia client. Proceeds of the $14 million HUD loan paid off bank debt and partnership debt from a previous addition funded by the sponsor. The two... Read More »

  • Blueprint Closes Three Two-Property Deals

    by | May 15, 2025 4:12 pm | Acquisitions

    Blueprint has been active, announcing three separate deals involving six separate assets over the last few days. First, Jacob Gehl and Dillon Rudy facilitated the sale of two seniors housing communities in densely populated, urban submarkets on Chicago’s North and South Side. The seller was a nationally recognized institutional private equity... Read More »
Merrill Gardens Buys Big

Merrill Gardens Buys Big

by | Nov 5, 2019 3:35 pm | Acquisitions

Merrill Gardens, known more developing seniors housing communities than acquiring them, has acquired Blue Harbor, a Portland, Oregon-based company that currently manages 21 communities in 13 states. The seller was Fortress Investment Group. For Merrill Gardens, it is somewhat of a two-fer, as Blue Harbor’s CEO, Tana Gall, is joining Merrill Gardens as its CEO, replacing David Eskenazy who announced his retirement last month. What’s more, Gall was president of Merrill Gardens from 2013 to 2015 before leaving to start her own consulting company, but was then recruited by Blue Harbor. She also worked at Leisure Care for 19 years, rising to be president there. Not a bad resume. Merrill Gardens... Read More »