• 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 »
Blueprint Handles Large Pacific Northwest Disposition

Blueprint Handles Large Pacific Northwest Disposition

Amy Sitzman, Dan Mahoney and Blake Bozett of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors handled the sale of eight small assisted living communities divided evenly between Washington and Oregon. News of the deal came out in June with two separate acquisition financing announcements from JD Stettin of Carnegie Capital, the first for the Oregon communities and the second for the Washington ones. Totaling 321 units of assisted living, the portfolio was previously owned by a joint venture between Sabra Health Care REIT and private equity group TPG, with Enlivant as the operator. They were struggling operationally and seen as value-add opportunities. The new owner will also convert a number of... Read More »
Cadence Living and Dylan Investments Acquire Oregon Community

Cadence Living and Dylan Investments Acquire Oregon Community

The M&A market is trudging along, and we suppose that is all we can hope for given the new risks facing the senior care industry and new hurdles for closing deals today. Scottsdale, Arizona-based owner and operator Cadence Living joint ventured with Dylan Investments, a boutique real estate investment firm based in Los Angeles, to acquire an assisted living/memory care community in an affluent suburb of Portland, Oregon. All parties involved had help on the deal, with Orix Securites representing the seller and Amy Sitzman and Giancarlo Riso of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors advising the buyers.  Built in 1998 and having undergone a memory care conversion in 2016, the... Read More »
Blueprint Facilitates Royal Senior Care’s Invesque Exit

Blueprint Facilitates Royal Senior Care’s Invesque Exit

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors helped Invesque exit its entire Royal Senior Care portfolio. That included the sale of two properties and transition of the other four properties to another existing operating partner.   One of the sold properties was a 60-unit assisted living/memory care community in Eatonton, Georgia. Built in 2014 with 42 AL and 18 MC units, this community was originally purchased by Care Investment Trust for $15.5 million, which was then taken over by Invesque. Royal also owned a 35% interest in the property and is acquiring the remaining interest for an undisclosed price. The other property was located in Florida and sold to a third party.   The four... Read More »
Blueprint Closes Another LTC Properties Sale

Blueprint Closes Another LTC Properties Sale

After representing LTC Properties in its five-phase sale of a 2,500-bed skilled nursing portfolio, Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors went back to the well, handling LTC Properties and Senior Lifestyle Corp.’s sale of two large seniors housing campuses in Arizona. The deal closed on April 21, with Humair Sabir, Amy Sitzman and Jacob Gehl leading the way.   One campus is located in Peoria (northeast of Phoenix) and features approximately 430 units in a prime location near regional medical centers. The other campus is in Yuma and totals about 150 assisted living and memory care units. Both properties could use some capital improvements, offering an opportunity to add value to the... Read More »
Blueprint Handles Large Pacific Northwest Disposition

Blueprint Wraps Up LTC Properties Portfolio Sale

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announced the final three phases of LTC Properties’ portfolio sale that sold to multiple buyers and closed from late-2019 to the first quarter of this year. It was revealed that seven skilled nursing facilities and about 550 beds in Iowa sold to a private owner/operator. Five of the facilities were located around Des Moines, and all seven offered upside to the new owner if they focused on certain geographical and management-level efficiencies. Humair Sabir and Jacob Gehl of Blueprint handled the deal, which closed in the first quarter.  That same pair then sold three skilled nursing facilities in Colorado, with two located in the Denver MSA and one... Read More »