• 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 »
Enlivant Sells Vacant Assisted Living Community

Enlivant Sells Vacant Assisted Living Community

A vacant assisted living community in Caldwell, Idaho found a new owner and a new lease on life in a deal handled by Blake Bozett, Amy Sitzman and Giancarlo Riso of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors. Built in the late-1990s, the community was rebranded in 2016 by the seller, Enlivant, but eventually shuttered. A local owner/operator in good standing with the state will renovate and relicense the building for assisted living. This was their seventh acquisition in the state, and they paid in cash. Read More »
Blueprint Handles Two More REIT Sales

Blueprint Handles Two More REIT Sales

The closings keep coming from Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors, as the firm has announced a series of acquisitions in the last couple weeks of the year, mainly for publicly-traded REIT clients. Ben Firestone, Michael Segal, Alex Florea and Scott Frazier first teamed up to sell an assisted living/memory care community in Escondido, California (an affluent suburb of San Diego). Previously owned by an LLC affiliated with Ventas, the community was originally built in 1986 and expanded with a new independent living building in 2006. Initially, the community offered a full spectrum of care from independent living to skilled nursing. However, the new IL building was converted to... Read More »
Blueprint Announces Two Assisted Living Deals

Blueprint Announces Two Assisted Living Deals

The year may be wrapping up, but Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has not been slowing down, announcing a couple of acquisitions during Christmas week. Ben Firestone, Michael Segal and Alex Florea first teamed up to sell two assisted living communities in the Midwest on behalf of a publicly-traded REIT and its national operator partner. Located near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Wichita, Kansas, the communities combine for 52 units and 16,000 total square feet. They were built in 1993/94, with renovations completed in 2016. Thanks in part to strong reputations in their local markets, operations were solid as well, with occupancy over 90%, a primarily private pay census and steady... Read More »
Blueprint Closes Three Transactions

Blueprint Closes Three Transactions

Some senior care investors have been doing some last-minute Christmas shopping, with Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announcing several sales. First, the team of Jacob Gehl, Humair Sabir and Scott Frazier represented an owner/operator looking to retire with the sale of their 35-unit (70-bed) assisted living community in Mission Valley, California (San Diego MSA). Blueprint was tasked with confidentially marketing the community and closing its sale within the calendar year. The property’s attractive location resulted in several competitive offers, but Bayshire Senior Living, a growing regional owner/operator with three other communities in the San Diego market, was ultimately... Read More »
Blueprint Announces Two Assisted Living Deals

From One REIT to Another

A senior living community in the Dallas, Texas area that has recently fallen on some bad times just changed owners from one publicly traded REIT to another. Built in 1999 with 90 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care, the community was previously operated by Atria Senior Living. It had historically operated at stabilized levels, but leadership turnover and new competition (not surprising to hear from the Dallas-Fort Worth MSA) affected occupancy, which in turn led to discounting and lower cash flow. That’s an all-too-familiar combination in the seniors housing industry these days. So, the publicly traded REIT seller hired Ben Firestone, Michael Segal, Joshua Salzman... Read More »