• 60 Seconds with Swett: Sticks and Bricks in ’26?

    The talk around new development is getting a lot more serious in the seniors housing industry, leading us to wonder if our 2024 prediction of “Sticks and Bricks in ‘26” may actually come true, somewhat. Back then, we may have thought that interest rates would have come down a bit more by now, but that the FOMO of getting involved in seniors... Read More »
  • Wyoming SNF Sale Sets New State Record

    There was a new record set for skilled nursing pricing in the state of Wyoming with the sale of Big Horn Rehabilitation and Care Center in Sheridan. Built in the 1960s, the facility features 128 beds and was 61% occupied. It was owned by a regional operator that was looking to recycle capital.  Before the marketing process, Evans Senior... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Acquires Facility Out of Bankruptcy

    A senior care facility in Worcester, Massachusetts, sold as part of a bankruptcy process with the help of Patrick Burke and Toby Siefert of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Built in 1970, Donna Kay Rest Home features 60 licensed beds in 31 units, providing a higher level of care and supervision than assisted living but at a lesser acuity than... Read More »
  • Civitas Sells Community to Clarion

    Hap Knowles and Nick Stahler of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Institutional Property Advisors announced that they led the sale of a seniors housing community in the Phoenix, Arizona MSA, to the fast-growing real estate investment firm Clarion Partners. The deal appears to be The Retreat at Alameda, a 110-unit assisted living/memory care community in... Read More »
  • Blueprint Handles Recapitalization

    Blueprint handled the recapitalization of Forest Hills Commons, a 2017-developed, 119-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Louisville, Kentucky MSA. A Louisville-based senior living owner/operator/developer engaged Blueprint in the third quarter of 2025 to begin the process. The asset demonstrated strong in-place performance and... Read More »
HealthPeak Sells 10 Aegis Living Communities

HealthPeak Sells 10 Aegis Living Communities

HealthPeak Properties continues its exit from the seniors housing business, both its sale/leaseback portfolio as well as its RIDEA assets. In a large transaction, HealthPeak has sold 10 assisted living and memory care communities to its tenant, Aegis Living, which partnered with Blue Moon Capital Partners in the deal. The purchase price for the real estate (to HealthPeak) was $350 million, but the total price for the entire transaction was closer to $440 million, or about $626,700 per unit. Not too bad during a pandemic.   The 10 properties are located in California (6), Washington (3) and Nevada (1). Average occupancy in the third quarter... Read More »
Blue Moon/LCS Refinances Texas Development

Blue Moon/LCS Refinances Texas Development

Three and a half years after entering into a joint venture to develop a 207-unit senior living community in Katy, Texas, Blue Moon Capital Partners and LCS have turned to CBRE to refinance the property. Situated on 10.35 acres, the community was developed using the Blue Moon Senior Housing I LP Fund, a $250 million fund for which Blue Moon secured a $175 million capital commitment from Hawkeye Partners, LP in December 2014. Now, the fund is fully invested in 12 assets totaling 1,824 units in nine states. Featuring independent living, assisted living and memory care units, the project also represented the first between Blue Moon and LCS, which took over as manager of the property under its... Read More »
CBRE Rocks Plymouth, Michigan Deal

CBRE Rocks Plymouth, Michigan Deal

After opening in 2017, and already filling up, a senior living community in Plymouth, Michigan (Detroit MSA) refinanced its construction debt with the help of Aron Will of CBRE. Developed by a joint venture between Boston-based private equity firm Blue Moon Capital Partners and Troy, Michigan-based operator Cedarbrook Senior Living, the community features 98 independent living, 43 assisted living and 41 memory care units, in addition to 19 IL cottages. It was developed at an approximate cost of $45 million, or around $225,000 per unit, which is slightly above the regional average for senior living communities of $215,000 per unit, according to our in-house database of developments dating... Read More »
The Assisted Living Investors Speak

The Assisted Living Investors Speak

On November 9, 2017, we held a webinar titled “Assisted Living: Buying, Selling and Valuing in a Market Peak,” which you can watch here. Over the course of 90 minutes, our Editor, Steve Monroe, led a discussion featuring Jeff Binder of Senior Living Investment Brokerage, Kevin Kreshover of KeyBanc Capital Markets, Chris Kronenberger of Blue Moon Capital Partners, and Chris Wettig of Legend Senior Living, covering topics that varied from selling AL communities in today’s market, to the added value of adding memory care to an AL community, to whether it is cheaper to build or buy now. And of course, are we currently in, passed, or heading towards a market peak? The webinar yielded some... Read More »
Belmont Village Teams With Blue Moon Capital

Belmont Village Teams With Blue Moon Capital

Belmont Village Senior Living and Blue Moon Capital Partners are teaming up for their first ground-up construction project together, albeit their third venture overall, with a planned 157-unit assisted living/memory care community in Aliso Viejo, California. A master planned community located in the San Joaquin Hills of southern Orange County, Aliso Viejo boasts high home values and high incomes, which should help to fill the luxury community. Featuring both studio and one-bedroom units, the community also comes with a town hall, fitness center, salon and heated salt-water pool. Upon completion in 2018, Belmont Village will operate the community. To fund the project, the venture turned to... Read More »