• Value-Add AL/MC Community Trades

    An institutional owner decided to divest a non-core asset, and engaged Jason Punzel, Vince Viverito, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage to run the sale process. The asset is located in Hillsboro, Oregon (Portland MSA), and features 36 assisted living and memory care units, with 62 licensed beds. It was built in... Read More »
  • Brookdale Divests California Community to Public REIT

    Blueprint was engaged by an institutional, national owner/operator in the strategic disposition of a large rental CCRC in Bakersfield, California. The 20-acre campus was developed in 1999 and provides the whole continuum of care, including independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing across three large buildings and... Read More »
  • Two Midwest Assets Trade

    A couple of seniors housing communities traded in the Midwest, selling to a couple of growing owner/operators. First, in the Indianapolis area, The Kiser Group’s Mark Myers and SVN | Senior Living Advisors’ John Klement led the sale of a 157-unit seniors housing community featuring a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Portfolio Closes in Wisconsin

    Bob Richards of Senior Care Realty recently completed the sale of a five-property assisted living portfolio in Wisconsin, closing the deal in multiple tranches. Richards had worked with the seller, AC Capital, for 15 years, helping them grow their portfolio over the years. AC Capital also has self-managed the communities for the last decade. Now,... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: Here We Go Again

    AARP just published a report on assisted living, and all I can say is, here we go again. It concludes that “the state of assisted living today is cause for concern for many stakeholders. The lack of national federal standards for care centers creates an underregulated space.” It continues on, stating that the “absence of national oversight,... Read More »
Ohio Owner/Operator Exits the Senior Care Industry

Ohio Owner/Operator Exits the Senior Care Industry

After more than 30 years in the business, a local owner/operator in Ohio exited the senior care industry with the help of Connor Doherty and Ryan Kelly of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors. Located in the northeast part of the state, the property features 152 total units, with 99 for skilled nursing and 53 for assisted living. It was built in 1976, with a major renovation in 2002. Operations had been declining during the due diligence period, with occupancy falling 15% from the time it was put under LOI. So, Blueprint worked with the incoming owner, a private equity owner/operator with extensive operating experience in the local market, to limit those declines. In the end, the... Read More »
Blueprint Handles Large Alabama Deal

Blueprint Handles Large Alabama Deal

Brooks Blackmon of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors arranged the sale of a portfolio of seven skilled nursing facilities located in Alabama. The properties presented an opportunity for a buyer to expand an existing footprint in the state, as well as to improve the operations across the portfolio. Totaling more than 800 beds, the facilities averaged close to 50 years old. Two campuses were renovated in the late-1990s, and one more recently in 2018. They were cash flow neutral at the time of the sale. A long-term care operator in the state stepped in the buy them. Having closed plenty of deals in Alabama, Mr. Blackmon utilized his knowledge of the local market and of the state’s... Read More »
Blueprint Handles Large Louisiana Portfolio Deal

Blueprint Handles Large Louisiana Portfolio Deal

So, it begins. Brooks Blackmon and Steve Thomes of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announced the firm’s first 2020 closing, selling a portfolio of five seniors housing communities in Louisiana. Representing the Georgia-based owner/operator who had originally developed the communities, the pair found a buyer in a joint venture between Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV and Georgia-based Senior Solutions Management Group (SSMG). Built in the late-1990s, the communities boasted a good reputation in their local markets and historically stable operations. However, the previous owner was looking to refocus on development in their home state, so a sale was pursued. SSMG entered the... Read More »
Blueprint Sells Two Struggling Senior Care Facilities

Blueprint Sells Two Struggling Senior Care Facilities

Two Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors teams arranged a couple of sales of struggling senior care facilities. First, Christopher Hyldahl, Gideon Orion and Kendra Gonzalez represented a private real estate investor in its sale of a 50-bed skilled nursing facility in the Los Angeles, California market. Some $1.7 million was spent on capital improvements over the past three years, of which $800,000 was used to prepare the facility for the approval of 27 subacute care beds. The facility has strong per-patient day reimbursement rates and a good historical CMS star rating. However, it was losing money on about $4.25 million in top-line revenue and had over $250,000 in outstanding QA fees.... Read More »
Blueprint Sells Successful Senior Living Community in Missouri

Blueprint Sells Successful Senior Living Community in Missouri

Brooks Blackmon and Ben Firestone of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors sprung into action this year in Springfield, Missouri, where the pair sold a 119-unit senior living community on behalf of a Missouri-based ownership group. Originally built in 2008, the property was expanded in 2012 to keep up with local demand. It now features 54 independent living, 48 assisted living and 16 memory care units. The expansion was also clearly a good idea, as occupancy stood at 99% and operating margins have been consistently high. In addition to acquiring that steady stream of cash flow, a buyer would also keep the successful in-place operator, Arrow Senior Living. A Florida-based private equity... Read More »