• 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 »
No Worries in Missouri

No Worries in Missouri

The trio of Ben Firestone, Michael Segal and Josh Salzman, Esq. from Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors sold three rural skilled nursing facilities in the southeast corner of Missouri on behalf of a public REIT owner. The facilities were the only three in the state to be managed by the Texas-based tenant. So management could perhaps be tightened by an in-state operator, as the portfolio’s census had fallen in recent years to below 50% in the six months ended March 2016, annualized. Cash flow was also negative at two of the facilities, and not trending well. The age of the buildings did not help matters, with one facility built in 1967, although the other two in the early-1990s. But... Read More »
Public REITs can sell seniors housing assets too

Public REITs can sell seniors housing assets too

We’ve read a lot about public REITs shedding their skilled nursing assets, but that’s not all they’re selling. A publicly traded REIT sold a pair of West Coast assisted living communities for $23 million, or $365,079 per unit. There is a 48-bed/24-unit assisted living/memory care community in Corvallis, Oregon, and a 78-bed/39-unit AL community in Citrus Heights, California. Over 93% occupied, the communities earned around $6.5 million in annualized revenues. The buyer, Summit Healthcare REIT, triple-net leased the properties for a term of 10 years to an affiliate of Compass Senior Living. Acquisition financing was arranged by Capital One, and Tim Cobb of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate... Read More »
Public REITs can sell seniors housing assets too

Insured success

Fortegra Financial Corporation, an affiliate of Tiptree Financial Inc., is a specialized insurance and insurance services company that is dipping its toes in the seniors housing market. That is not to say Tiptree is a debutante to the industry, with its wholly owned subsidiary Care Investment Trust making five acquisitions for 17 properties since 2013. For Fortegra, the company is acquiring a 77-unit senior living community with independent/assisted living and memory care services in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The stabilized property was owned by a regional operator which is exiting the industry with this sale. Fortegra is paying $11.5 million, or $149,351 per unit, for the community and is... Read More »
Blueprint’s Mass of deals

Blueprint’s Mass of deals

Continuing Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors’ active 2016, Steve Thomes and Chris Hyldahl were the lead advisors in the sale of a 123-bed skilled nursing facility in New Bedford, Massachusetts, owned by a New York-based national owner, for $4 million, or $32,520 per bed. Occupancy could be improved from 79%, but that will be the job of a regional owner/operator with a significant presence in eastern Massachusetts. But wait, there’s more…in Massachusetts. Mr. Thomes, with the assistance of Michael Segal and Ben Firestone, sold an 87-bed skilled nursing facility to a regional owner/operator that is growing its Massachusetts portfolio. Really operating at 78 beds, the facility was 83%... Read More »

Two dually-certified SNFs sell

A pair of skilled nursing facilities with 235 dually-certified beds in Texas changed hands this month, with the help of Chris Hyldahl and Gideon Orion of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors. The facilities combined for a total purchase price of $10 million, or $42,553 per bed, and they differed slightly in quality. The facility in North Central Texas was built in 1969 and was just 74% occupied, while the other facility, located in East Texas, was built in 1982 and had stronger occupancy, at 91%. Both had a quality mix of around 14%. So there will be some work to improve census and quality mix for the regional owner/operator buyer, which purchased the facilities from a national... Read More »