• 60 Seconds with Steve Monroe: What Do People Really Think?

    In our Second Quarter 2025 investment webinar, moderator Ben Swett asked our audience of a few hundred what they thought about several important topics. Overwhelmingly, 82% of the attendees indicated they would rather buy than build in today’s market, which was surprising given two facts. One, the current inventory is aging and showing it, and... Read More »
  • Publicly Traded Healthcare REIT Acquires in Minnesota

    Lee & Associates’ Senior Housing team, led by Robert Black, represented a Scottsdale, Arizona-based developer in the sale of a Class-A seniors housing community in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Developed by the seller in 2019, the building features 101 independent living, assisted living and memory care units.  There was strong interest in the... Read More »
  • Ivy Healthcare Group Divests to Regional Owner/Operator

    Engaged by Ivy Healthcare Group, Evans Senior Investments facilitated the sale of a skilled nursing facility in Gastonia, North Carolina. Ivy at Gastonia comprises 50 beds and has a strong operational foundation. ESI secured a regional owner/operator as the buyer. The incoming operator is expected to benefit from a favorable reimbursement... Read More »
  • Denver-Based Owner/Operator Grows in Colorado

    Blueprint represented a court-appointed receiver in the sale of a seniors housing portfolio in the Grand Junction, Colorado MSA. The portfolio comprised two assisted living communities with around 50 units, and a standalone memory care community built in the mid-1990s with around 20 units. The portfolio was 65% occupied and breaking even on a... Read More »
  • Ohio Skilled Nursing Facility Changes Hands

    Connor Doherty and Ryan Kelly of Blueprint closed the sale of a 61-bed skilled nursing facility located southeast of Columbus, Ohio. While the facility was experiencing operational challenges at the time of marketing, it had a long-standing reputation for providing quality care to the community. Blueprint’s marketing process emphasized the... Read More »
REIT Divests Ohio SNF Portfolio

REIT Divests Ohio SNF Portfolio

Sometimes, less is more. That was the case for a portfolio of three Ohio skilled nursing facilities, which shed five beds from their license and thus boosted their average Medicaid rate by over $16 per patient day. Ben Firestone, Michael Segal and Connor Doherty of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors represented the publicly traded REIT seller and its national operator tenant on the sale, advising them on the decertification of the five beds that resulted in 297 combined licensed beds selling across the three facilities. Located in the Columbus metro area, the portfolio was built or expanded in the 1980s and renovated in the early 2000s. Each facility is also located within three... Read More »
Regional Operator Expands Its Southeast Portfolio

Regional Operator Expands Its Southeast Portfolio

A not-for-profit provider of skilled nursing services in the Southeast deemed three of its facilities to be non-core, selling them to a regional operator. Located within an hour’s drive of one another, two of the facilities are located in the Hampton Roads, Virginia, market and one is just over the border in Currituck County, North Carolina. Totaling 429 beds, they were all built in the late-1980s and offered a value-add opportunity to the buyer, especially as a reliable partner for the seller’s hospital discharges in the area. Steve Thomes of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors led the transaction, which generated eight competitive offers. The final purchase price was not... Read More »
When an EB-5 Investment Goes Wrong

When an EB-5 Investment Goes Wrong

Sometimes a brand-new physical plant and high-quality operator isn’t enough to keep a senior care facility from hitting financial difficulties. That was the case of a two-year old transitional care facility in Tucson, Arizona that just sold to a Chicago-based owner/operator in a transaction led by Amy Sitzman, Jacob Gehl and Humair Sabir of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors. Developed at an approximate cost of $24 million, or $270,000 per bed, the 103-bed facility was not open for very long before it was placed into SEC receivership under the supervision of Thomas Seaman and Associates. Why? The group (unrelated to the operator) who raised the EB-5 equity for the project had... Read More »
Blueprint Arranges Two Assisted Living Transactions

Blueprint Arranges Two Assisted Living Transactions

Caring for higher acuity residents in assisted living comes with added risks, staffing needs and costs. That goes without saying. But, by accepting those residents, owners and operators also charge higher rents and expect a higher level of cash flow to compensate them. That is at least what the new owner of two assisted living communities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area is banking on. Amy Sitzman and Joshua Salzman of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors represented the seller, a national seniors housing owner/operator, in the transaction. Totaling 114 units, their communities were purpose-built in the late-1990s in established and affluent suburban neighborhoods. Now, Elmington Senior... Read More »
Blueprint Represents Good Samaritan In Arizona Sale

Blueprint Represents Good Samaritan In Arizona Sale

Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society exited two of its senior care facilities in the Phoenix area with the help of Amy Sitzman of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors. If this deal looks familiar, it’s because The Ensign Group announced early in the May that it was the buyer of the two campuses. Built in various stages from the mid-1970s to the early 2000s, the properties included a Peoria campus with 150 skilled nursing beds and 70 independent living units, and a Mesa campus with 58 SN beds, 88 IL units and 18 assisted living beds. Good Samaritan had recently invested several million dollars in renovations and maintained four- or five-star... Read More »