• Berkadia Announces 2025 Activity and Latest Deal

    Berkadia recorded another successful year, with more than $2 billion in mortgage banking closings for the second consecutive year. In 2025, Berkadia’s financings were spread across 123 properties including active adult, independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing communities. Multiple lending sources were utilized, such... Read More »
  • Bank Closes Refinance and Acquisition Financing

    Coastal States Bank announced that it recently closed $9 million in financing to refinance a 60-unit purpose-built memory care community near Centerville, Ohio, and to acquire a 53-unit memory care community in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Following the closing, the sponsor’s affiliated management company, Kauhale Healthcare Management, began managing... Read More »
  • SLIB Sells Ohio Assisted Living Portfolio

    Jeff Binder and Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage sold a portfolio of three seniors housing communities in Ohio. Built between 1987 and 2009, the three buildings consist of 314 total units. They were in receivership. Working on behalf of the out-of-state owner, which has other seniors housing communities throughout Ohio, SLIB... Read More »
  • AHR’s New Interim CEO

    American Healthcare REIT, Inc.’s Chief Executive Officer and President, Danny Prosky, has taken a medical leave of absence, effective February 3, 2026, due to a recent medical event. So, the Company’s Board of Directors appointed Jeffrey T. Hanson, the Chairman of the company’s Board, to serve as Interim CEO and President, effective... Read More »
  • NHI Acquires Nine Communities

    National Health Investors made a large SHOP purchase, adding nine communities consisting of 460 total units across Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee. The properties will be managed by Allegro Living Management, an affiliate of Spring Arbor Management. NHI has an existing relationship with Spring Arbor totaling approximately $227 million in... 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 »