• 60 Seconds with Swett: Sticks and Bricks in ’26?

    The talk around new development is getting a lot more serious in the seniors housing industry, leading us to wonder if our 2024 prediction of “Sticks and Bricks in ‘26” may actually come true, somewhat. Back then, we may have thought that interest rates would have come down a bit more by now, but that the FOMO of getting involved in seniors... Read More »
  • Wyoming SNF Sale Sets New State Record

    There was a new record set for skilled nursing pricing in the state of Wyoming with the sale of Big Horn Rehabilitation and Care Center in Sheridan. Built in the 1960s, the facility features 128 beds and was 61% occupied. It was owned by a regional operator that was looking to recycle capital.  Before the marketing process, Evans Senior... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Acquires Facility Out of Bankruptcy

    A senior care facility in Worcester, Massachusetts, sold as part of a bankruptcy process with the help of Patrick Burke and Toby Siefert of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Built in 1970, Donna Kay Rest Home features 60 licensed beds in 31 units, providing a higher level of care and supervision than assisted living but at a lesser acuity than... Read More »
  • Civitas Sells Community to Clarion

    Hap Knowles and Nick Stahler of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Institutional Property Advisors announced that they led the sale of a seniors housing community in the Phoenix, Arizona MSA, to the fast-growing real estate investment firm Clarion Partners. The deal appears to be The Retreat at Alameda, a 110-unit assisted living/memory care community in... Read More »
  • Blueprint Handles Recapitalization

    Blueprint handled the recapitalization of Forest Hills Commons, a 2017-developed, 119-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Louisville, Kentucky MSA. A Louisville-based senior living owner/operator/developer engaged Blueprint in the third quarter of 2025 to begin the process. The asset demonstrated strong in-place performance and... 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 »