• 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 »

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 »