• 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 »

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors Is Booming

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has been on a roll recently, to say the least. Perhaps this sales spurt was kick started by some new energy entering the firm in the form of Pamela Pyms and Hayden Behnke of Pyms Capital Resources, because since that announcement, Blueprint has closed seven transactions accounting for 30 facilities. We detailed the first four in this month’s issue of The SeniorCare Investor, which will hit your desks next week. Which included Blueprint’s largest transaction of the bunch, involving 18 skilled nursing facilities and some 1,843 total licensed beds. Located in Kansas (9), Missouri (6), Iowa (2) and Nebraska (1), these midwestern SNFs were part of the... Read More »

Booming Blueprint

Following Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors’ announced acquisition of Pyms Capital Resources, the brokerage firm highlighted its growing strength with two more deal closings in the middle of the country. First up, Christopher Hyldahl and Giancarlo Riso arranged the sale of a six-facility skilled nursing portfolio in Iowa on behalf of the local owner/operator seller. The portfolio, which includes 273 total dually-certified beds, offers a huge opportunity for improvement to the buyer, a New York-based owner/operator interested in expanding in Iowa. Built over the last 20 years by the seller, the portfolio was just 52% occupied at the time of the sale, but had a quality mix of... Read More »
Pyms Capital Resources Joins Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors

Pyms Capital Resources Joins Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors

On the eve of NIC’s Spring Investment Forum in San Diego, Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announced the joining of its firm with Pamela Pyms and Hayden Behnke of Pyms Capital Resources. Working together since 2011 out of Denver, Colorado, Ms. Pyms and Ms. Behnke not only bring their talent for deal making to Blueprint, but local market expertise of Colorado and the surrounding region. Pyms Capital Resources also helps developers source equity and debt, in addition to arranging partnerships among institutional investors and national operators. In Blueprint, Ms. Pyms and Ms. Behnke are joining a fast-growing brokerage firm with 45 transactions and $554 million in business closed in... Read More »
Buying in Burbank

Buying in Burbank

It may have seen better days, but a skilled nursing facility in Burbank, Illinois sold to a pair of Chicago-based companies for $7.25 million, or $44,500 per bed. The 163-bed facility was sold by a New York-based owner of more than 180 skilled nursing facilities located across the country. In-place cash flow was negative at the time of the sale and occupancy had declined over the past few years. But that hasn’t always been the case, with local operators noting the well-maintained facility’s strong operations in the past, including back-to-back years of total revenue and EBTIDAR exceeding $10 million and $1 million, respectively. A partnership between a national real estate investor and an... Read More »
Another Texas Transaction for Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors

Another Texas Transaction for Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has developed an affinity for the Texas senior care M&A market, closing six transactions in the state in the last year, including as recently as January, when the firm closed the sale of a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in Whitehouse for $6.42 million, or $53,500 per bed. Now, hired to help a large company divest what it viewed as non-core asset, Tim Cobb and Ben Firestone of Blueprint arranged the sale of a 75-unit/141-bed skilled nursing facility in San Antonio. Included on the campus was a 17-bed assisted living unit, but the facility was struggling operationally, with just a 34% census at the time of the sale. The Ensign Group was the... Read More »