• National Health Investors Reports Its Most Active Year

    National Health Investors released its fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 results, and it made significant strides in 2025. The REIT completed $392.4 million in investments, marking its most active year yet. Its SHOP portfolio expanded from 15 communities to 26 during the year, and has kept the momentum going into 2026. So far this year, the... Read More »
  • American Healthcare REIT Continues Its Momentum

    American Healthcare REIT expanded both its Integrated Senior Health Campus and SHOP segments in 2025, completing $950 million of new investments across the two. The ISHC portfolio grew from 126 properties at year-end 2024 to 147 by the end of 2025, while the SHOP segment increased from 70 to 83 properties.  Same-community ISHC properties... Read More »
  • Town Lane and Arcole Acquire Their Fifth Community

    Town Lane and Arcole made the fifth seniors housing investment in their inaugural $1.25 billion real estate fund. Town Lane is a real estate investment firm, and Arcole is a recently launched seniors housing platform that partners with operators to acquire newer-vintage, full-continuum communities in high-growth markets. The joint venture will... Read More »
  • NYC’s First CCRC Development Secures Major Financing

    Ziegler closed River’s Edge, the largest senior living tax-exempt bond transaction to date, totaling more than $600 million. River’s Edge is the first CCRC project in New York City and will be located on the campus of its sponsor, not-for-profit RiverSpring Living, in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. An affiliate of the sponsor, RS Services,... Read More »
  • LTC Properties Buys into SHOP Growth

    LTC Properties released its 2025 fourth quarter results and 2026 guidance, and in it reiterated its shift toward its newly established SHOP segment. During the second quarter of the year, the company established the segment, marking its shift in focus from the skilled nursing sector. Later in Q2, it terminated its Anthem Memory Care triple-net... Read More »
REIT Finds New Tenant for Ohio Skilled Nursing Portfolio

REIT Finds New Tenant for Ohio Skilled Nursing Portfolio

It’s not the easiest time for a transition in operators, but Michael Segal, Connor Doherty and Ryan Kelly of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors facilitated the change across a portfolio of four skilled nursing facilities in Ohio. Owned by a public REIT, three of the facilities are located in the Columbus and Cincinnati MSAs, while the fourth is in the northwest part of the state near Indiana. Totaling 613 licensed beds, 502 of which are dually certified and 111 are residential care, they historically operated near stabilized levels, but revenue and census declined as a result of the pandemic. That put pressure of the lease coverage, and the prior operator expressed a... Read More »
Blueprint Sells Two New York ALFs

Blueprint Sells Two New York ALFs

A couple of value-add assisted living communities sold in upstate New York. Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors was hired by the REIT seller to lead the sale process, which was part of a larger strategic disposition. Located in the greater Rochester market, the two communities were underperforming, which was only made worse by the pandemic. A very competitive regional market for assisted living services also made for a tough operating environment.  So, a regional buyer with ties in the Rochester market ended up as the acquirer and the license transfer was completed. They paid an undisclosed cash amount. Working on the transaction was Blueprint’s Ben Firestone, Steve... Read More »
Merrill Commercial Real Estate Sells Memory Care Community Out of Receivership

Merrill Commercial Real Estate Sells Memory Care Community Out of Receivership

Tyler Merrill of Merrill Commercial Real Estate took an Oregon memory care community that was in receivership and sold it to a group of individual investors new to the industry. To take on the turnaround, that buyer group hired a Northwest-based operator to manage the community. It’s not an easy time for that, to say the least, but with a purchase price of $3 million, or $54,500 per unit, there is certainty some wiggle room to add value.  Built in 1998, this 55-unit memory care community is located in Coos Bay on the central Oregon coast. Its previous owner originally acquired the community as part of a four-property portfolio in 2008, and Mr. Merrill was brought in to sell all four in... Read More »
Blueprint Handles Cleveland Closing

Blueprint Handles Cleveland Closing

A private owner/operator looking to expand its presence and increase its operational leverage in the Midwest acquired an assisted living/memory care community in Cleveland, Ohio, with the help of Connor Doherty, Ryan Kelly, Amy Sitzman and Giancarlo Riso of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors. Featuring 133 units about evenly split between assisted living and memory care, this community was built in the early 2000s. It has struggled with occupancy, leading its national owner/operator to seek a sale.   Blueprint brought the asset to a well-capitalized private owner/operator, which will reposition the community as an affordable option in the Cleveland MSA by utilizing the state’s... Read More »
Blueprint Handles Not-For-Profit Sale to The Ensign Group

Blueprint Handles Not-For-Profit Sale to The Ensign Group

According to its second quarter earnings report, The Ensign Group certainly defied expectations for the rest of the senior care industry and has been performing relatively well lately. The company also announced its acquisition of a CCRC in Tempe, Arizona, which we’ve learned Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors helped facilitate.   Previously owned and operated by Volunteers of America Senior Living, a large not-for-profit with over 20 communities in its portfolio, the campus includes a 62-bed skilled nursing facility and a senior living community with 90 independent living and 72 assisted living units.   The community has a 40-year history in the Tempe market and maintained a good... Read More »