• Berkadia Announces 2025 Activity and Latest Deal

    Berkadia recorded another successful year, with more than $2 billion in mortgage banking closings for the second consecutive year. In 2025, Berkadia’s financings were spread across 123 properties including active adult, independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing communities. Multiple lending sources were utilized, such... Read More »
  • Bank Closes Refinance and Acquisition Financing

    Coastal States Bank announced that it recently closed $9 million in financing to refinance a 60-unit purpose-built memory care community near Centerville, Ohio, and to acquire a 53-unit memory care community in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Following the closing, the sponsor’s affiliated management company, Kauhale Healthcare Management, began managing... Read More »
  • SLIB Sells Ohio Assisted Living Portfolio

    Jeff Binder and Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage sold a portfolio of three seniors housing communities in Ohio. Built between 1987 and 2009, the three buildings consist of 314 total units. They were in receivership. Working on behalf of the out-of-state owner, which has other seniors housing communities throughout Ohio, SLIB... Read More »
  • AHR’s New Interim CEO

    American Healthcare REIT, Inc.’s Chief Executive Officer and President, Danny Prosky, has taken a medical leave of absence, effective February 3, 2026, due to a recent medical event. So, the Company’s Board of Directors appointed Jeffrey T. Hanson, the Chairman of the company’s Board, to serve as Interim CEO and President, effective... Read More »
  • NHI Acquires Nine Communities

    National Health Investors made a large SHOP purchase, adding nine communities consisting of 460 total units across Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee. The properties will be managed by Allegro Living Management, an affiliate of Spring Arbor Management. NHI has an existing relationship with Spring Arbor totaling approximately $227 million in... Read More »
Iowa CCRC Finds New Not-For-Profit Owner

Iowa CCRC Finds New Not-For-Profit Owner

A struggling CCRC in Perry, Iowa traded from one not-for-profit owner to another, with Michael Segal and Ben Firestone of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors facilitating the sale. Set on over 20 acres about 40 miles northwest of Des Moines, the campus was originally built in the late 1950s, with eight independent living cottages added in the 1980s. A more recent $20 million expansion/replacement project in 2014 added 16 assisted living units and 57 new skilled nursing and transitional care beds, plus an eight-unit memory care unit in 2015.  It was owned by a Board of Directors through the Grand Lodge of Iowa, with a trust agreement administered by the District Court of Dallas... Read More »
Blueprint Sells Two Vacant Assisted Living Communities in New Jersey

Blueprint Sells Two Vacant Assisted Living Communities in New Jersey

Amy Sitzman and Giancarlo Riso of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors handled the sale of two vacant assisted living communities in New Jersey, thereby completing the seller’s exit of its entire vacant seniors housing portfolio, of which Blueprint successfully advised on eight of the transactions in states including Arizona, Idaho and Texas. This deal featured two purpose-built, 39-unit assisted living communities located within 45 miles of each other. They also have similar floorplans and layouts.  Blueprint positioned the properties as an opportunity for an incoming investor to acquire both communities below replacement cost, implement a capex/renovation... Read More »
Blueprint Arranges Utah Seniors Housing Exit

Blueprint Arranges Utah Seniors Housing Exit

A Pacific Northwest-based ownership group decided to divest its only seniors housing community in the state of Utah, working with Giancarlo Riso, Amy Sitzman and Jacob Gehl of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors to get the deal done. The well-maintained community was built in 1999 about 10 miles east of Park City. It features 32 assisted living and 10 memory care units, with historically consistent operations.   However, there are some immediate value-add opportunities for the new owner, which is based in Salt Lake City, has an existing portfolio in the state and should be able take advantage of some economies of scale. Blueprint helped arrange the sale and assumption of the in-place... Read More »
Blueprint Sells Five Skilled Nursing Facilities

Blueprint Sells Five Skilled Nursing Facilities

The team at Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announced a couple of closings, including a skilled nursing portfolio deal in Texas and a SNF sale in Rhode Island. The Texas transaction featured four skilled nursing facilities and a combined 340 beds that were owned by a REIT. Two of the facilities were built in the late-1960s/early-1970s and two in 2000. They are spread out in suburban and rural areas with relatively low average market census.   Three of them were also enrolled in QIPP. The REIT was winding down its relationship with the in-place, in-state provider, hence the sale. Two buyers emerged, a growing Texas operator and a large, national owner/operator, which acquired the... Read More »
Private Equity Investor Acquires Dallas Seniors Housing Community

Private Equity Investor Acquires Dallas Seniors Housing Community

Joshua Salzman, Michael Segal and Alex Florea of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors represented a REIT in its divestment of a 170-unit seniors housing community in Dallas, Texas. Originally built in 1987, community received a thorough renovation in 2013 and additional capital improvements since 2016.   Following a previous operator transition, the REIT owner converted the remaining assisted living units to independent living, resulting in the community being fully focused on independent living. Occupancy had initially dropped after the conversion, but the community was repositioned as an affordable independent living option, and census steadily improved as a... Read More »