• 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 »
Blueprint Advises Texas SNF Repositioning

Blueprint Advises Texas SNF Repositioning

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors was engaged by the real estate owner ServiceStar Capital Management, a family office based in Denver, to advise on the repositioning of its skilled nursing facility in Grapevine, Texas. Through the process, Blueprint helped secure a new lease agreement with Eduro Healthcare, a Utah-based operator with experience in the transitional rehab industry. The Lodge at Bear Creek was built in 2016 and is licensed for 100 beds. Situated in an affluent suburb approximately 21 miles northwest of Dallas, it also benefits from being built near two prominent regional hospitals, Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Grapevine and Texas Health Harris Methodist... Read More »
Blueprint Closes Two SNF Sales

Blueprint Closes Two SNF Sales

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors’ Connor Doherty and Ryan Kelly announced two recent SNF closings. We’re used to the pair working on deals in the Buckeye State, but the first transaction consisted of a 50-bed/19-unit private-pay skilled nursing facility and independent living community in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Named The Terrace Orleans, the facility was originally built in 1968 and was fully renovated in 2000. A Massachusetts-based operator seeking to grow its regional presence was selected as the buyer, and this purchase marks the operator’s first facility real estate acquisition. No purchase price was disclosed.  The second transaction involved the sale of two skilled nursing... Read More »
Blueprint Closes Sale of Rural Washington Community

Blueprint Closes Sale of Rural Washington Community

Blueprint Real Estate Advisors is closing 2021 with a slew of deals, including Blake Bozett’s sale of a 40-unit assisted living community in Prosser, Washington. Built in 1999, Amber Hills Assisted Living underwent a $2 million expansion in 2016. It has a nearly 30% Medicaid census, and the community was positioned as a value-add opportunity, with occupancy fluctuating during the transaction process.   The seller is a local group who has been in the senior living industry for decades but will focus their energy on different business endeavors, and the buyer is a regional owner/operator, which will look to increase the assisted living unit count through a... Read More »
Blueprint Closes Two SNF Sales

Blueprint Closes Two More Deals

What a week it was for Blake Bozett of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors. In the same week that he closed an assisted living community sale in Nampa, Idaho, he and his wife welcomed their first child! We know the latter announcement is probably more important to him, but we’ll focus on the former here. Mr. Bozett facilitated the sale of Streamside Assisted Living and Memory Care, a 79-unit assisted living and memory care community located outside of Boise. Built in 2006, Streamside saw a healthy operating margin around 30% and stable occupancy in the 80s, even during the pandemic. The local sellers have been in the industry for over 20 years but are selling in order to focus on... Read More »
OHI Sells Two Michigan Properties

OHI Sells Two Michigan Properties

Omega Healthcare Investors divested a couple of small assisted living communities in the state of Michigan, hiring Michael Segal and Ben Firestone of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors to handle the sale. Built in the late 1980s and 1990s with renovations in the early 2000s, the communities are located in Marshall and Mt. Pleasant, operating under the Maplewood brand by Laurel Health Care. They were well maintained with occupancy surpassing 95% prior to the pandemic. Laurel decided to exit its only assisted living communities in order to focus on its skilled nursing business, prompting the exit. Several in-state operators submitted competitive offers but an entrepreneur with a... Read More »