• CIBC Completes Several Financings

    CIBC Bank USA announced a handful of senior care financings across multiple states. First, the company closed a $17.5 million cash-out refinancing for a regional operator’s portfolio of three skilled nursing facilities with 235 total beds in northeast and southeast Massachusetts, and southern New Hampshire. The facilities have an effective age of... Read More »
  • Blueprint Adding HUD Lending Platform

    Fresh off another record-setting year for investment sales activity, Blueprint announced a major expansion of its capital markets services to now include FHA/HUD lending and servicing capabilities. The firm is acquiring the existing FHA/HUD lending platform of MidCap Financial Services, and hiring Tony Marino, formerly of Cambridge Realty Capital... Read More »
  • More New Capital Enters Seniors Housing

    A fully-integrated real estate firm that is well known in the student housing world announced its foray into the seniors housing industry. Landmark Properties focuses on the development, construction, acquisition, investment management, and operation of high-quality residential communities, but the company’s intent is to invest in ground-up... Read More »
  • Berkadia’s Recent Financing Activity

    In the past 30 days, Berkadia’s Jay Healy and Andrew Lanzaro have closed $111.5 million across four financings for four separate sponsors, encompassing eleven properties in six states. The activity included three bridge financings totaling $69.6 million from Berkadia’s proprietary balance sheet and a $41.9 million HUD refinance. The first... Read More »
  • Inspirit Senior Living Appoints New President

    Torey Riso is heading back to the operating world, joining Inspirit Senior Living as President as of March 16. He joins Dave McHarg, who is the CEO of Inspirit and Founding Partner of the company. Since its founding in 2015, Inspirit has grown to 37 properties under management, with Inspirit holding an equity interest in around half of those. ... Read More »
The Sabra-Genesis Sales Keep On Coming

The Sabra-Genesis Sales Keep On Coming

Many of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors’ closings this year have featured a publicly traded REIT divesting skilled nursing facilities (a theme in the past year), which was yet again the impetus for its latest deal. Christopher Hyldahl, Ben Firestone, Gideon Orion and Michael Segal worked on behalf of Sabra Health Care REIT to sell a portfolio of 12 skilled nursing facilities in New Hampshire (7) and Florida (5). The deal is part of Sabra’s strategy to reduce its exposure to Genesis Healthcare. Another tranche of 20 properties in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio sold earlier this year (also handled by Blueprint) for $103.3 million, or about $55,400 per bed. Now, Sabra has thrown off 12... Read More »
Blueprint Sells Jewish Senior Care Community in Ohio

Blueprint Sells Jewish Senior Care Community in Ohio

Jacob Gehl, Connor Doherty and Giancarlo Riso of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors represented a not-for-profit senior care community in the Cincinnati, Ohio suburb of Mason in its sale to another not-for-profit entity. After first opening in 1997, the 267-bed/unit property was operated by the Jewish Home of Cincinnati and offers a full continuum of care, including independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing. However, in order to invest in new programs and services to serve Cincinnati’s Jewish seniors in the future, its Board of Trustees elected to sell. Blueprint found an Indiana-based not-for-profit buyer, which will hire CarDon & Associates to manage... Read More »
Five SNFs in The Tar Heel State Swap Owners

Five SNFs in The Tar Heel State Swap Owners

Hired to either find a buyer or a new tenant for a portfolio of five skilled nursing facilities with 638 beds in North Carolina, Chris Hyldahl and Gideon Orion of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors did both, sort of. The transaction closed within 48 days of the offer acceptance with an operator/owner that already had a presence in North Carolina. The final structure was a new lease with an option to buy, and the tenant plans on exercising that option as soon as possible.    Read More »
Large Skilled Nursing Portfolio Sells In Midwest

Large Skilled Nursing Portfolio Sells In Midwest

A publicly traded REIT decided to exit a number of secondary and tertiary markets in Illinois and Missouri, hiring Ben Firestone and Michael Segal of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors to get the job done. The portfolio featured 1,581 total licensed beds in 14 skilled nursing facilities, with 12 located in central and southern Illinois and two in Missouri. Several of the facilities were recently renovated to offer high-acuity, short-term rehabilitation care, and now currently feature a high number of private rooms. Each facility in the portfolio is also strategically located near primary referral sources. However, the REIT owner wanted to lessen its exposure in these markets and end... Read More »
Strawberry Fields Grows In Kentucky

Strawberry Fields Grows In Kentucky

Kentucky’s largest not-for-profit senior living and long-term care provider, Christian Care Communities, worked with Ben Firestone and Michael Segal of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors to sell its 92-bed skilled nursing facility in Louisville. Ideally located near multiple hospitals and other referral sources, the facility was originally built in 1962, but was recently renovated in both 2012 and 2014. Occupancy was around 81%, but trailing cash flows were negative, prompting Blueprint to position the asset as a value-add opportunity. For a purchase price of $6.5 million, the facility ultimately sold to Strawberry Fields REIT, which leased it to Landmark Group to operate. The deal... Read More »