• Value-Add AL/MC Community Trades

    An institutional owner decided to divest a non-core asset, and engaged Jason Punzel, Vince Viverito, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage to run the sale process. The asset is located in Hillsboro, Oregon (Portland MSA), and features 36 assisted living and memory care units, with 62 licensed beds. It was built in... Read More »
  • Brookdale Divests California Community to Public REIT

    Blueprint was engaged by an institutional, national owner/operator in the strategic disposition of a large rental CCRC in Bakersfield, California. The 20-acre campus was developed in 1999 and provides the whole continuum of care, including independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing across three large buildings and... Read More »
  • Two Midwest Assets Trade

    A couple of seniors housing communities traded in the Midwest, selling to a couple of growing owner/operators. First, in the Indianapolis area, The Kiser Group’s Mark Myers and SVN | Senior Living Advisors’ John Klement led the sale of a 157-unit seniors housing community featuring a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Portfolio Closes in Wisconsin

    Bob Richards of Senior Care Realty recently completed the sale of a five-property assisted living portfolio in Wisconsin, closing the deal in multiple tranches. Richards had worked with the seller, AC Capital, for 15 years, helping them grow their portfolio over the years. AC Capital also has self-managed the communities for the last decade. Now,... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: Here We Go Again

    AARP just published a report on assisted living, and all I can say is, here we go again. It concludes that “the state of assisted living today is cause for concern for many stakeholders. The lack of national federal standards for care centers creates an underregulated space.” It continues on, stating that the “absence of national oversight,... Read More »
Off To The Races

Off To The Races

Just as the horses were coming into the stretch at the Derby last Saturday, Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors was closing on the sale of two skilled nursing facilities in Kentucky. They were built in 1993 and 1999, and one of the facilities underwent a $1.7 million renovation in 2014. Combined occupancy was 80% with revenues of $10 million. The sales price was $7.5 million, or about $51,000 per bed. Chris Hyldahl, Gideon Orion, Michael Segal and Ben Firestone represented the California-based seller, and the buyer was ClearView Healthcare Management.   Just to the south, Brooks Blackmon and Trent Gherardini of Blueprint sold a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in Butler,... Read More »
Blueprint’s Two Lone Star State Sales

Blueprint’s Two Lone Star State Sales

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors continues to impress in 2018, having just closed two more transactions to bring its yearly total to 21 deals announced, so far. Gideon Orion and Chris Hyldahl of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors served up a South Texas sale in the town of Robstown, just outside of Corpus Christi. The buyer will have their hands full with this facility. Built in 1969, with a small renovation in 2010, its age did not help operations. As such, occupancy stood at 75%, and the facility operated at a 5.9% EBITDAR margin at the time of the sale. In came Messrs. Orion and Hyldahl, who represented the New York-based owner (with more than 150 skilled nursing... Read More »
Leaving the Land of Lincoln

Leaving the Land of Lincoln

Illinois is often cited as a state in which skilled nursing owners and operators do not want to do business in. Its uncertain reimbursement market and fiscal situation make for a risky investment, particularly outside of the more densely populated, higher income Chicagoland. That was the impetus for an owner/operator to sell its two Illinois skilled nursing facilities in the greater St. Louis area, with the help of Josh Salzman, Michael Segal and Ben Firestone of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors. The exit wasn’t surprising for the previous owner, which had not intended to operate the facilities for the long term. The two facilities are both located in Edwardsville and combined for... Read More »
Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors Unlocks the Keystone State

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors Unlocks the Keystone State

Representing a REIT owner in a strategic non-core divestment, Michael Segal and Ben Firestone of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors sold a Philly-area skilled nursing facility for an undisclosed price. The transaction was remarkably similar to another deal that Messrs. Segal and Firestone closed earlier this month. That deal featured a 180-bed SNF in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania that sold for $18.75 million, or about $104,000 per bed. Just a week later, the Blueprint team sold a 181-bed skilled nursing facility also in eastern Pennsylvania (the Philadelphia suburb of Wyndmoor). The in-place management team had assumed operations in 2015, but inconsistent... Read More »
Sitzman Sells Vacant Senior Living Assets

Sitzman Sells Vacant Senior Living Assets

No residents? No problem for Amy Sitzman of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors, who recently sold two vacant assisted living communities in Arizona for an undisclosed price. These were not recent vacancies, however, that the incoming owner can just open the doors and get along with business as usual. One asset, located in Peoria with 50 units, closed in 2008, while the second building in Mesa, also with 50 units, had been vacant since 2013. The seller looked to divest the assets, and ended up selling to two separate buyers. The purchaser of the Peoria property is a regional operator looking to expand its presence. Meanwhile, the Mesa buyer is a growing behavioral health group that... Read More »