• 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 »

Doherty does it again

About a month after closing the sale of a healthcare campus in Toledo, Connor Doherty of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors headed a bit east to sell a 37-unit assisted living community in Olmsted Falls, Ohio, with support from Jacob Gehl and Brian Payant. The property was developed in 2000 about 10 miles from downtown Cleveland. A well respected Ohio-based owner/operator ended up buying the community, paying $5.8 million, or $156,757 per unit. Read More »
And the vote is in…

And the vote is in…

On October 13, our editor Steve Monroe moderated a webinar called “Skilled Nursing: Buying, Selling & Valuing,” with panelists Ben Atkins, Chairman of Traditions Senior Management, Charles Bissell, Executive Director of Integra Realty Resources, Ben Firestone, Senior Managing Director & Founding Partner of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors, and Stephen Graham, SVP/Director of Post-Acute Acquisition & Development of MedEquities Realty Trust. During the 90 minutes, we posed two poll questions to our listeners and got some interesting results. First, in response to “Should high acuity, subacute SNFs sell with a higher or lower cap rate than more traditional SNFs?,” 55% of... Read More »

Expanding Through Decreased Acuity

An acute-care operator based in New York is not only expanding its geographic reach, but also its acuity offerings. The company already owns several post-acute/senior care assets in New York, but is launching into the Midwest with the acquisition of a 200+-unit/bed senior care campus in the Toledo, Ohio area for an undisclosed price. Built in many stages from 1963 to 2006, the property mainly consists of skilled nursing beds, with a significant number of long-term acute care (LTAC) beds, as well as assisted living and independent living units. For over 30 years, a second-generation family member owned and operated the facilities, but they are leaving to focus on their existing assisted... Read More »

The Blueprint Buzz

We hope the team at Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has found some time this NIC to celebrate their busy end to the summer, having announced four deals during the Fall conference. First up, with the help of Steve Thomes, Christopher Hyldahl, and Gideon Orion of Blueprint, as well as acquisition financing provided by Private Bank, Brick, New Jersey-based Tryko Partners LLC added to its already-strong eastern Massachusetts skilled nursing facility portfolio with the acquisition of a 107-bed facility in Methuen for $7.5 million, or $70,093 per bed. It was built in 1960 and renovated in 1995, but Tryko is planning, through its affiliate, Marquis Health Services, a $2.5 million... Read More »
Two Texas-sized SNFs sell

Two Texas-sized SNFs sell

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors’ most recent deal in Texas involved two large skilled nursing facilities, and some 438 beds, for a purchase price of $27.5 million, or $62,785 per bed. The facilities were owned by a well-known family in the Texas skilled nursing world that has been operating since the mid-1970s. The leads on this transaction, Tim Cobb, Steve Thomes and Joshua Salzman, Esq., faced some problems with the uncertainty of the Texas Minimum Payment Amount Program, but eventually sold the facilities to a Los Angeles-based real estate private equity firm with an operating partner. Read More »