• Cap Rates Continue Compression in JLL’s Investor Survey

    Ben Swett, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor, sat down with Bryan Lockard, Executive Managing Director of JLL’s Value and Risk Advisory, to discuss the results of JLL’s recently published 2026 Seniors Housing & Care Investor Survey and Trends. They also covered some major topics heading into NIC in Nashville. Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: Burning Questions for NIC Attendees

    This time next week, we’ll be heading out of Nashville from the Spring NIC conference likely buoyed by the overwhelmingly positive mood we’re expecting from most of our industry friends. It’s hard not to be optimistic when occupancy and margins are increasing to healthy levels nationally, and show no signs of stopping, when liquidity is... Read More »
  • Janus Living’s IPO Results

    Janus Living has completed its initial public offering, raising $878 million after deducting the underwriting discount and estimated expenses payable by the company. The REIT sold 48.3 million shares of its Class A-1 common stock at $20 per share, including the full exercise of the underwriters’ 6.3 million-share option. It made its New York... Read More »
  • VIUM Capital Secures Slew of HUD and Bridge Financings

    VIUM Capital recently closed a series of healthcare and seniors housing real estate financings across multiple states, spanning both HUD-insured loans and bridge executions for skilled nursing, assisted living and memory care assets. The largest loan was a $56.4 million HUD financing for a 325-bed skilled nursing facility in Florida. The facility... Read More »
  • Several Senior Care Finances Close

    Jeremy Warren of Montgomery Intermediary Group reported an active end of winter, closing a handful of debt transactions for clients in Illinois and Kentucky. First, he helped the owner of a 77-bed skilled nursing facility in Kentucky refinance existing acquisition debt following a successful operational turnaround. Since acquiring the facility... 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 »