• National Health Investors Reports Its Most Active Year

    National Health Investors released its fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 results, and it made significant strides in 2025. The REIT completed $392.4 million in investments, marking its most active year yet. Its SHOP portfolio expanded from 15 communities to 26 during the year, and has kept the momentum going into 2026. So far this year, the... Read More »
  • American Healthcare REIT Continues Its Momentum

    American Healthcare REIT expanded both its Integrated Senior Health Campus and SHOP segments in 2025, completing $950 million of new investments across the two. The ISHC portfolio grew from 126 properties at year-end 2024 to 147 by the end of 2025, while the SHOP segment increased from 70 to 83 properties.  Same-community ISHC properties... Read More »
  • Town Lane and Arcole Acquire Their Fifth Community

    Town Lane and Arcole made the fifth seniors housing investment in their inaugural $1.25 billion real estate fund. Town Lane is a real estate investment firm, and Arcole is a recently launched seniors housing platform that partners with operators to acquire newer-vintage, full-continuum communities in high-growth markets. The joint venture will... Read More »
  • NYC’s First CCRC Development Secures Major Financing

    Ziegler closed River’s Edge, the largest senior living tax-exempt bond transaction to date, totaling more than $600 million. River’s Edge is the first CCRC project in New York City and will be located on the campus of its sponsor, not-for-profit RiverSpring Living, in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. An affiliate of the sponsor, RS Services,... Read More »
  • LTC Properties Buys into SHOP Growth

    LTC Properties released its 2025 fourth quarter results and 2026 guidance, and in it reiterated its shift toward its newly established SHOP segment. During the second quarter of the year, the company established the segment, marking its shift in focus from the skilled nursing sector. Later in Q2, it terminated its Anthem Memory Care triple-net... 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 »